Serverless applications are event-driven, using ephemeral compute functions ranging from web APIs, mobile backends, and streaming analytics to data processing stages in machine learning (ML) and high-performance applications. While AWS Lambda includes a 512 MB temporary file system (/tmp) for your code, this is an ephemeral scratch resource not intended for durable storage such as […]

A conversation with Aleksandras Šulženko – Product owner at Oxylabs.io In a global economy where change happens by the second, one of the best ways to keep up with industry information, including your competitors, is to collect, review and analyze publicly available data in as close to real time as possible. This is why you […]

We’ve discussed the importance of training and the hiring of cybersecurity professionals many times on CloudTweaks over the past 10+ years. Now more than ever as the world enters into a dark era of digital warfare, do we require the necessary knowledge and tools to help thwart the endless number of cyber attacks. The scope […]

Cloud platforms and technologies allow developers and software engineers to build and deploy systems, applications, and services that can be accessed from anywhere across the globe and ones that can scale easily to handle more or less traffic cost-effectively without the owners having to incur heavy costs on additional infrastructure. Yet still, developers have to […]

Cyber security vulnerabilities are a constant nuisance and it certainly doesn’t help with the world in a current state of disarray and uncertainty. Vulnerabilities leave businesses and individuals subject to a wide range of threats including: Malware, Ransomware and DDoS. Some of the most common vulnerabilities include: Cross Site Scripting, Cross-Site Request Forgery, Security Misconfiguration, […]

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick round up of interesting news and announcements from AWS! Another week, another round up of the most significant AWS launches from the previous seven days! Among the news, we have new AWS Heroes and a cost reduction. Also, […]

Enterprise software startups are capitalizing on real-time data to continually improve revenue, costs, cash flow, marketing, and sales as their business grows. The majority of software startup CEOs spoken with have designed their businesses to provide real-time data that’s immediately actionable. In addition, they’ve taken the time to design their business structure and systems to […]

Since 2015, the AWS Well-Architected Framework has been helping AWS customers and partners improve their cloud architectures. The framework consists of design principles, questions, and best practices across multiple pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, and Cost Optimization. At AWS re:Invent 2021, we introduced a new Sustainability Pillar to help organizations learn, measure, and improve their workloads using environmental best practices […]

The AWS Heroes program is a worldwide initiative which acknowledges individuals who have truly gone above and beyond to share knowledge in technical communities. AWS Heroes share knowledge by hosting events, Meetups, workshops, and study groups, or by authoring blogs, creating videos, speaking at conferences, or contributing to open source projects. You can see some […]

A few weeks back, I shared my thoughts on the importance of staying curious, in that case as it related to the field of quantum computing. As we learned from Dr. John Preskill, quantum computing is on a much longer time horizon than most technology we talk about these days, and it’s something that may […]