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The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has re-architected a margin optimisation application to run in AWS, and in doing so forged a template for what it can and cannot take to the cloud in future. ASX’s general manager of application development and DevOps, Katherine Squire, said the application had been re-architected to run in the cloud to fix performance issues. Squire will present at Cloud & DC Edge on the Gold Coast next month, which is co-organised by iTnews. The ASX’s margin optimisation service automatically identifies and executes opportunities to reduce ASX Cleared derivatives margin costs for members and their clients. The new margin optimisation application went live this week. Squire said the application was re-engineered to make it ‘cloud fit’,[…]

You can now monitor and track the time that records spend in Amazon Kinesis and Amazon DynamoDB streams before being processed by your AWS Lambda functions. Using the new IteratorAge metric, you can easily detect delays in stream processing and create alarms that help you efficiently monitor your stream-based operation’s health and performance. The IteratorAge metric is now available as a default metric which is free of charge. It is viewable in the Lambda console’s monitoring tab. Source: AWS Lambda Adds Enhanced Visibility into Stream-based Processing Operations