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May 28, 2019 By ray

Atlassian’s not-so-magic journey scaling low latency, multi-region services on AWS

Engineering stateless, high-availability cloud services comes with juuuuuuust a few challenges. Here’s how we (eventually) slayed the dragon. Atlassian went “all in” on AWS in 2016 and they continue to be our preferred cloud provider. The extent of that migration was covered from a high-level in this article. But what we didn’t cover in that piece was the number of services we needed to modify or build to be stateless.… Read more

May 28, 2019 By ray

EC2 A1 Instance with AWS Graviton Processor: Easy Way to Save 40%

AWS released A1 Instance Types at re:Invent 2018. Honestly, I didn’t think much about this announcement. I would see the ads for them when logging into the AWS console, and folks seem to be excited about them. So I started digging into what this whole A1 Instance type was all about.… Read more

May 28, 2019 By ray

A look at the AWS hardware update that fuels its A1 instances

One of the most significant updates to come out of AWS re:Invent this year was about a processor, not a cloud service. On the first day of the user conference, AWS added A1 instances, a set of EC2 VMs powered by its own custom, Arm-based Graviton Processor. This might have been overlooked amid the bevy of services the cloud provider added that week; many developers’ eyes glaze over with this kind of AWS hardware stuff.… Read more

May 9, 2019 By ray

AWS Control Tower

The easiest way to set up and govern a secure, compliant multi-account AWS environment AWS Control Tower automates the set-up of a baseline environment, or landing zone, that is a secure, well-architected multi-account AWS environment. The configuration of the landing zone is based on best practices that have been established by working with thousands of enterprise customers to create a secure environment that makes it easier to govern AWS workloads with rules for security, operations, and compliance.… Read more

April 17, 2019 By ray

What is AWS GovCloud (US)?

AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated AWS region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, helping customers support their US government compliance requirements, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) High baseline requirements. AWS services the region with U.S.… Read more