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Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The Cloud Inventor and Cloud Explorer courses of AWS Educate, built for students aged 14-18*, are now available in five additional languages: French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. With the addition of these languages, more students than ever have access to content that will introduce them to cloud-based concepts and technologies.With AWS Educate, students can start their cloud journey and learn about the tech concepts behind things like building and sharing games online, or expand their knowledge with more in-depth challenges on concepts like variables and big data. Students can build ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon FSx for Windows File Server, a service that provides fully managed native Microsoft Windows file systems, has made Windows shadow copies available to all file systems. Since launch of this feature on July 31, 2019, it was available only on newly-created Amazon FSx file systems. Now, customers can use shadow copies on any existing file system to enable end-users to easily view and restore previous versions of files.  ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Dan Noal. AWS intends to provide long-term support (LTS) releases with Amazon FreeRTOS. We are communicating this intent before the first LTS release of Amazon FreeRTOS so that you can incorporate this information into your project planning.Device manufacturers adopting embedded OS solutions for their IoT projects consider software development life cycle implications from initial development through deployment and post-deployment support. They often choose LTS releases for product launches. LTS releases offer a more stable foundation than standard releases as manufacturers deploy and later update devices in the field. Adopting ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Additional AWS Solutions offerings are available on the AWS Solutions webpage, where customers can browse solutions by product category or industry to find AWS-vetted, automated, turnkey reference implementations that address specific business needs ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Elemental MediaConnect is a reliable, secure, and flexible transport service for live video that enables broadcasters and content owners to build live video workflows and securely share live content with partners and customers. MediaConnect helps customers who run 24x7 TV channels or stream live events transport high-value live video streams into, through, and out of the AWS Cloud in a fraction of the time and cost of satellite or fiber services. MediaConnect can function as a standalone service or within a larger video workflow that includes other AWS services, including the other AWS Elemental Media Services ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Neptune is a fast, reliable, fully managed graph database service that makes it easy to build and run applications that work with highly connected datasets and supports the popular graph models Property Graph and W3C's RDF. Now you can create Neptune instances in AWS GovCloud (US-East) to build applications using Apache TinkerPop Gremlin or SPARQL queries that efficiently navigate highly connected datasets. You can use Amazon Neptune in the following AWS regions: US East (N. Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), AWS GovCloud (US-East, US-West), Europe (Frankfurt, Ireland, London, Stockholm), and Asia Pacific (Mumbai, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ashia Johnson. By Ashia Johnson, Program Marketing Manager at AWSThe AWS Competency Program helps customers choose top AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners to team up with by validating organizations that can provide value-added services and solutions. AWS Competencies are built to go beyond the meaning of the word “competent,” as this is one of the toughest designations an APN Partner can achieve and maintain. Guidance from these skilled professionals leads to better business and bigger results that help Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers at any stage of their cloud adoption journey. Learn more about the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. A large EMEA company recently decided to migrate their on-premises IBM Netezza data warehouse to Amazon Redshift. Given the volume of data (270TB uncompressed and more than 27K tables), the number of interconnected systems that made use of this data (more than 4.5K business processes), and the zero downtime requirements, we understood that the project would be a challenge. Since the company planned to decommission the data center where the data warehouse was deployed in less than a year’s time, there were also time constraints in place.The data warehouse is a central piece for the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Have a great idea for how Amazon Alexa can help your education technology product better serve students, teachers, administrators, or parents? Enter the Amazon Alexa EdTech Skills Challenge today! In collaboration with SXSW EDU, this contest is designed to find the best application of voice technology in education and is open to all US-based education technology companies. We’re looking for your best Alexa skill ideas around one of four themes: Home-School Connection: Extends learning beyond the walls of the classroom and helps students learn at home. Accessibility: Makes learning more accessible ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Nima Sharifi Mehr. The Internet of Things (IoT) solutions help transform your operations and customer experiences across a variety of industries and uses. That unlimited opportunity brings excitement, but it also brings security, risk, and privacy concerns.To protect customers, devices, and companies, every IoT solution should start and end with security.  The best IoT security solution offers multi-layered protection from the edge to the cloud, letting you secure your IoT devices, connectivity, and data. Ideally, you could rely on a publicly known and reusable list of security practices for ... Read More