O2 Telefonica Moves its 5G core network to the Cloud with AWS and Nokia

Today, O2 Telefónica announced its 5G Cloud Core – a new 5G cloud network built entirely in the cloud, using technologies from European network equipment provider Nokia and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’re increasingly seeing more telecom operators recognize the Continue reading O2 Telefonica Moves its 5G core network to the Cloud with AWS and Nokia

AWS Weekly Roundup — Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock, AWS CloudFormation optimizations, and more — March 18, 2024

Storage, storage, storage! Last week, we celebrated 18 years of innovation on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) at AWS Pi Day 2024. Amazon S3 mascot Buckets joined the celebrations and had a ton of fun! The 4-hour live stream Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup — Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock, AWS CloudFormation optimizations, and more — March 18, 2024

Infrastructure as Code development with Amazon CodeWhisperer

At re:Invent in 2023, AWS announced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) support for Amazon CodeWhisperer. CodeWhisperer is an AI-powered productivity tool for the IDE and command line that helps software developers to quickly and efficiently create cloud applications to run on Continue reading Infrastructure as Code development with Amazon CodeWhisperer

How we sped up AWS CloudFormation deployments with optimistic stabilization

Introduction AWS CloudFormation customers often inquire about the behind-the-scenes process of provisioning resources and why certain resources or stacks take longer to provision compared to the AWS Management Console or AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI). In this post, we will delve into Continue reading How we sped up AWS CloudFormation deployments with optimistic stabilization

AWS Weekly Roundup — Happy Lunar New Year, IaC generator, NFL’s digital athlete, AWS Cloud Clubs, and more — February 12, 2024

Happy Lunar New Year! Wishing you a year filled with joy, success, and endless opportunities! May the Year of the Dragon bring uninterrupted connections and limitless growth In case you missed it, here’s outstanding news you need to know as Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup — Happy Lunar New Year, IaC generator, NFL’s digital athlete, AWS Cloud Clubs, and more — February 12, 2024

AWS Weekly Roundup — Amazon Q in AWS Glue, Amazon PartyRock Hackathon, CDK Migrate, and more — February 5, 2024

With all the generative AI announcements at AWS re:invent 2023, I’ve committed to dive deep into this technology and learn as much as I can. If you are too, I’m happy that among other resources available, the AWS community also Continue reading AWS Weekly Roundup — Amazon Q in AWS Glue, Amazon PartyRock Hackathon, CDK Migrate, and more — February 5, 2024

Import entire applications into AWS CloudFormation

AWS Infrastructure as Code (IaC) enables customers to manage, model, and provision infrastructure at scale. You can declare your infrastructure as code in YAML or JSON by using AWS CloudFormation, in a general purpose programming language using the AWS Cloud Continue reading Import entire applications into AWS CloudFormation

Announcing CDK Migrate: A single command to migrate to the AWS CDK

Today we’re excited to announce the general availability of CDK Migrate, a component of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK). This feature enables users to migrate AWS CloudFormation templates, previously deployed CloudFormation stacks, or resources created outside of Infrastructure as Continue reading Announcing CDK Migrate: A single command to migrate to the AWS CDK

Deploy CloudFormation Hooks to an Organization with service-managed StackSets

This post demonstrates using AWS CloudFormation StackSets to deploy CloudFormation Hooks from a centralized delegated administrator account to all accounts within an Organization Unit(OU). It provides step-by-step guidance to deploy controls at scale to your AWS Organization as Hooks using Continue reading Deploy CloudFormation Hooks to an Organization with service-managed StackSets

Implementing a GSMA Compliant Remote SIM Provisioning Workload on AWS

A technology shift is underway in telecom as devices evolve beyond removable physical Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards in favor of embedded Universal Electronic Circuit Cards (eUICCs) and electronic SIMs (eSIMs). This shift is largely necessitated and driven by the Continue reading Implementing a GSMA Compliant Remote SIM Provisioning Workload on AWS

Blue/Green deployments using AWS CDK Pipelines and AWS CodeDeploy

Customers often ask for help with implementing Blue/Green deployments to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using AWS CodeDeploy. Their use cases usually involve cross-Region and cross-account deployment scenarios. These requirements are challenging enough on their own, but in addition Continue reading Blue/Green deployments using AWS CDK Pipelines and AWS CodeDeploy

Using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Cloud Development Kit to provision multicloud resources

Customers often need to architect solutions to support components across multiple cloud service providers, a need which may arise if they have acquired a company running on another cloud, or for functional purposes where specific services provide a differentiated capability. Continue reading Using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Cloud Development Kit to provision multicloud resources

Identify regional feature parity using the AWS CloudFormation registry

The AWS Cloud spans more than 30 geographic regions around the world and is continuously adding new locations. When a new region launches, a core set of services are included with additional services launching within 12 months of a new Continue reading Identify regional feature parity using the AWS CloudFormation registry

Implementing automatic drift detection in CDK Pipelines using Amazon EventBridge

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is a popular open source toolkit that allows developers to create their cloud infrastructure using high level programming languages. AWS CDK comes bundled with a construct called CDK Pipelines that makes it easy Continue reading Implementing automatic drift detection in CDK Pipelines using Amazon EventBridge

Load test your applications in a CI/CD pipeline using CDK pipelines and AWS Distributed Load Testing Solution

Load testing is a foundational pillar of building resilient applications. Today, load testing practices across many organizations are often based on desktop tools, where someone must manually run the performance tests and validate the results before a software release can Continue reading Load test your applications in a CI/CD pipeline using CDK pipelines and AWS Distributed Load Testing Solution

Exploring Fn::ForEach and Fn::FindInMap enhancements in AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation, an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service that lets you model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources, recently released a new language transform that enhances the core CloudFormation language. Today, we’ll be covering two more enhancements we’ve added Continue reading Exploring Fn::ForEach and Fn::FindInMap enhancements in AWS CloudFormation

New Solution – Clickstream Analytics on AWS for Mobile and Web Applications

Starting today, you can deploy on your AWS account an end-to-end solution to capture, ingest, store, analyze, and visualize your customers’ clickstreams inside your web and mobile applications (both for Android and iOS). The solution is built on top of Continue reading New Solution – Clickstream Analytics on AWS for Mobile and Web Applications

How Georgia-Pacific (a Koch Industries Company) Improved their Resilience Posture at Scale using AWS Resilience Hub

Introduction Georgia-Pacific embarked on a cloud application modernization and resiliency improvement journey. In this blog post, we look at how Georgia-Pacific transitioned their Disaster Recovery (DR) processes from largely a manual effort to a more automated one, improving their application resiliency Continue reading How Georgia-Pacific (a Koch Industries Company) Improved their Resilience Posture at Scale using AWS Resilience Hub

How businesses can gain ecommerce capabilities to increase sales

Continued growth in ecommerce and digital channels The recent pandemic has resulted in irreversible shifts in customers’ behaviors. Customers’ buying habits have shifted to digital channels and this has resulted in small and medium sized businesses losing revenues and potentially Continue reading How businesses can gain ecommerce capabilities to increase sales