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Managing AWS Sandbox environments in a secure and cost-effective way

Automat-it is an AWS Premier Tier Partner and works with the AWS cloud every day. We support hundreds of customers and manage thousands of AWS accounts. Our engineers are continuously learning and improving their AWS skills. Hands-on practice is essential for such progress, but where to practice? A sandbox environment is a perfect choice for […]

Troubleshoot Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Performance Issues by Scenario (Part 3)

This is the third part in our series troubleshooting Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL performance issues. Read part 1 here about idle connections, MultiXacts, and query memory consumption Read part 2 here about Subtransactions, Runaway query, and Increased Logical Replication Lag In part 3, we will cover the following issues: Stale Statistics in High-Churn Data Vacuum is […]

How Automat-it built secure, reliable streaming on AWS for freeTV

Delivering live and on-demand video at scale requires far more than compute and storage. Modern streaming platforms must combine security, performance, high availability, and global reach—all while supporting hybrid environments where video originates from on-premises infrastructure but is distributed through the cloud. At Automat-it, our team designed and built the AWS-based streaming foundation for freeTV, […]

Troubleshoot Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Performance Issues by Scenario (Part 2)

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This is the second blog in our series explaining the most common scenarios involving performance issues for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. Read Part 1 here which focuses on idle connections, MultiXacts, and query memory consumption. In this second part of the series, we look at the following issues: Greater than 64 Subtransactions 100% CPU due to […]

Troubleshoot Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL Performance Issues by Scenario (Part 1)

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Welcome to a three-part blog series explaining the most common scenarios involving performance issues for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL. Each use case includes sections to demonstrate the performance issue, as well as a process to analyze, identify, and resolve it. This is Part 1, which includes: Impact of idle connections Impact of MultiXacts Low system memory […]

Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) vs. Customizations for AWS Control Tower (CfCT)

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In the previous four posts, I explained AWS Landing Zone in general, the structure of AWS organization, and basic security configurations: Building a Landing zone with AWS Control Tower (part 1) Building a Landing zone with AWS Control Tower (part 2) Building a Landing zone with AWS Control Tower (part 3) Control Tower Guardrails overview […]

Benchmarking Amazon EC2 Instances: The Newer the Type, the Better?

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AWS continuously updates its cloud services and releases new instance types, and this leads to the following questions from customers: Which instance type is better for my needs? Which instance type is cheaper? How does CPU/Networking performance differ between instance types? In this article, I have compared different generations for general-purpose EC2 instances of “M” […]

Hack the OWASP Juice Shop Application and Protect it with AWS WAF (Part 2)

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In the previous post, we started exploring the OWASP Juice Shop vulnerable web application and how we can use AWS WAF to protect against some hacking techniques (scanning, brute-forcing). In part 2, we will look at SQL Injections (SQLi), Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), and other well-known attacks and vulnerabilities. SQL Injections According to The Open Worldwide Application […]