Join us on Wednesday, September 13, for a free-to-attend online event, AWS End User Computing Innovation Day 2023. AWS will stream the event simultaneously across multiple platforms, including LinkedIn Live, Twitter, YouTube, and Twitch. Adapting to a complex landscape shaped by return-to-office mandates, pressure to migrate out of self-operated data centers, escalating security concerns, scarcity of in-house IT expertise, and constant focus on controlling expenses creates numerous challenges for IT teams responsible for providing the tools employees need to do their jobs. AWS End User Computing Innovation Day 2023 is a one-day, free virtual event designed to dissect these very challenges. Join us as we delve into how AWS End User Computing (EUC) services can be harnessed to navigate this…
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How Vercel Shipped Cron Jobs in 2 Months Using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler
Vercel implemented Cron Jobs using Amazon EventBridge Scheduler, enabling their customers to create, manage, and run scheduled tasks at scale. The adoption of this feature was rapid, reaching over 7 million weekly cron invocations within a few months of release. This article shows how they did it and how they handle the massive scale they’re experiencing. Vercel builds a front-end cloud that makes it easier for engineers to deploy and run their front-end applications. With more than 100 million deployments in Vercel in the last two years, Vercel helps users take advantage of best-in-class AWS infrastructure with zero configuration by relying heavily on serverless technology. Vercel provides a lot of features that help developers host their front-end applications. However, until…
AWS Weekly Roundup: Farewell EC2-Classic, EBS at 15 Years, and More (Sept. 4, 2023)
Last week, there was some great reading about Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) written by AWS tech leaders. Dr. Werner Vogels wrote Farewell EC2-Classic, it’s been swell, celebrating the 17 years of loyal duty of the original version that started what we now know as cloud computing. You can read how it made the process of acquiring compute resources simple, even though the stack running behind the scenes was incredibly complex. We have come a long way since 2006, and we’re not done innovating for our customers. As celebrated in this year’s AWS Storage Day, Amazon EBS was launched 15 years ago this month. James Hamilton, SVP and distinguished engineer at Amazon,…
Announcing Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink Renamed from Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics
Today we are announcing the rename of Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics to Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, a fully managed and serverless service for you to build and run real-time streaming applications using Apache Flink. We continue to deliver the same experience in your Flink applications without any impact on ongoing operations, developments, or business use cases. All your existing running applications in Kinesis Data Analytics will work as is without any changes. Many customers use Apache Flink for data processing, including support for diverse use cases with a vibrant open-source community. While Apache Flink applications are robust and popular, they can be difficult to manage because they require scaling and coordination of parallel compute or container resources. With…