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If you’re attending AWS re:Invent 2024 with the goal of improving your organization’s cloud resilience operations, we will be offering valuable insights, best practices, and fun activities to improve your cloud resilience expertise. This year, we’re offering more than 100 resilience breakout sessions, workshops, chalk talks, builders’ sessions, and code talks. Find the complete list in the re:Invent 2024 session catalog and filter by “Resilience” in the area of interest field. In this post, we highlight must-see sessions for those building resilient applications and architectures on AWS. Reserved seating is now open, so act quickly to claim your seat. Be sure to also check out the vertical-specific re:Invent guides.

A good strategy for resilience will include operating with high availability and planning for business continuity. It also accounts for the incidence of natural disasters, such as earthquakes or floods and technical failures, such as power failure or network connectivity. AWS recommends a multi-AZ strategy for high availability and a multi-Region strategy for disaster recovery. […]

ComfyUI is an open-source node-based workflow solution for Stable Diffusion and increasingly being used by many creators. We previously published a blog and solution about how to deploy ComfyUI on AWS. Typically, ComfyUI users use various custom nodes, which extend the capabilities of ComfyUI, to build their own workflows, often using ComfyUI-Manager to conveniently install and manage their […]

We are excited to announce the availability of enhanced and expanded guidance for the AWS Well-Architected Framework with the following six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability This release includes new best practices and improved prescriptive implementation guidance for the existing best practices. This includes enhanced recommendations and steps on reusable architecture patterns focused on specific business […]

This post was co-written with Sagar Bedmutha, senior solutions architect at Tata Consultancy Services, and Rajiya Patan, AWS developer at Tata Consultancy Services Service excellence helps cultivate customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. According to Gartner, one service excellence challenge is long wait times on interactive voice response (IVR) systems. Long wait times can translate into […]

Data is the fuel for AI; modern data is even more important for generative AI and advanced data analytics, producing more accurate, relevant, and impactful results. Modern data comes in various forms: real-time, unstructured, or user-generated. Each form requires a different solution. AWS’s data journey began with Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) in 2006, […]

In Part 1 of this series, we used a floating virtual IP (VIP) to achieve hands-off high availability (HA) of WebLogic Admin Server. In Part 2, we’ll achieve an arguably superior solution using Domain Name System (DNS) resolution. Using a DNS to resolve the address for WebLogic admin server Let’s look at the reference WebLogic […]

This post was co-written with Ran Isenberg, Principal Software Architect at CyberArk and an AWS Serverless Hero. Serverless architectures enable agility and simplified cloud resource management. Organizations embracing serverless architectures build robust, distributed cloud applications. As organizations grow and the number of development teams increases, maintaining architectural consistency, standardization, and governance across projects becomes crucial. […]

This post was co-written with Paulo Barbosa, the COO of Banfico.  Introduction Banfico is a London-based FinTech company, providing market-leading Open Banking regulatory compliance solutions. Over 185 leading Financial Institutions and FinTech companies use Banfico to streamline their compliance process and deliver the future of banking. Under the EU’s revised PSD2, banks can use application […]

Software as a Service (SaaS) applications offer a transformative solution for businesses worldwide, delivering on-demand software solutions to a global audience. However, building a successful SaaS platform demands on meticulous architectural planning, especially given the inherent challenges of multi-tenancy. It’s also essential to ensure that each tenant’s data remains isolated and protected from unauthorized access […]