Author: Amazon Web Services

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Ryan Dsouza. This blog is co-authored by Ryan Dsouza, AWS and John Cusimano, Deloitte  Introduction Innovative and forward-looking oil and gas, electrical generation and distribution, aviation, maritime, rail, utilities, and manufacturing companies who use Operational Technology (OT) to run their businesses are adopting the cloud in many forms as a result of their digital transformation initiatives. Data lakes, Internet of Things (IoT), edge technology, machine-to-machine communication, and machine learning (ML) are enablers for this industrial digital transformation. This is driving changes to the OT landscape, and as these environments ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. On May 23-25, 2022, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will hold the AWS Summit Washington, DC at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. The no cost, three-day event will include more than 300 breakout sessions, chalk talks, customer lightning talks, builders’ sessions, and more, with a focus on how to accelerate innovation in the public sector. If you’re planning on attending, or thinking about attending, here’s how you can make the most of your AWS Summit Washington, DC experience: Download the mobile app Download the AWS Events ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Control Tower now supports operational concurrency for all guardrail types, preventive or detective. With this new release you can now enable or disable multiple preventive guardrails without needing to wait for individual guardrail operations to complete. AWS Control Tower provides customers with out-of-the-box preventive and detective guardrails that you can deploy to increase your security, operational, and compliance posture. You can now enable different preventive guardrails (e.g. Disallow Creation of Access Keys for the Root User and Disallow Delete Actions on Amazon S3 Buckets Without MFA) on the same Organizational Unit (OU), or the same preventive ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sailesh Kadam. By Sailesh Kadam, Solutions Architect – AWSBy Tyler Geary, Solutions Architect – AWS Dell Technologies  Customers across industries leverage hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) in the form of Dell EMC VxRail in their datacenters in order to centralize their servers, storage area networks (SANs), and shared storage into server-based appliances. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers several services and tools that existing Dell EMC VxRail customers can utilize to create a hybrid cloud infrastructure, or accelerate migrations with AWS. In this post, we will review the AWS native offerings and architectures that can be ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Bryan Neff. Introduction Amazon Kinesis Video Streams (KVS) makes it easy to securely stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics, machine learning (ML), playback, and other processing. KVS automatically provisions and elastically scales all the infrastructure needed to ingest streaming video data from millions of devices. It durably stores, encrypts, and indexes video data in your streams, and allows you to access your data through easy-to-use APIs. KVS enables you to play back video for live and on-demand viewing, and quickly build applications that take advantage of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. The AWS Well-Architected Framework defines resilience as “the capability to recover when stressed by load (more requests for service), attacks (either accidental through a bug, or deliberate through intention), and failure of any component in the workload’s components.” The need for resilient workloads transcends all customer industries, but it can often can be misunderstood, which can lead to workloads that do not incorporate resilient architecture at all or workloads that are over-engineered. Resilience is a technical problem, but it’s also about people and culture. It’s a continuous process that requires us to learn by iterating. Customers ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Amazon customers can now use The Amazon Kendra Jira Cloud connector to index documents from Atlassian Jira. Critical information can be scattered across multiple data sources in an enterprise. Organizations use agile project management platforms such as Atlassian Jira to enable teams to collaborate to plan, track, and ship deliverables. Amazon customers can now use the Amazon Kendra Jira Cloud connector to index issues, comments, and attachments in your Jira projects, and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, when you create a new predictive scaling policy, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling goes back 14 days to generate capacity forecasts for the past dates, enabling you to see how predictive scaling would have scaled your Auto Scaling group. This allows you to quickly decide if the predictive scaling policy is accurate for your applications by comparing the demand and capacity forecasts against the actuals immediately after you create a predictive scaling policy. Previously, you would have had to wait at least a few days after creating the policy to build up sufficient forecast history for the ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Incident Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, announces expanded support for runbook automation to speed up incident diagnosis and resolution. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for your AWS applications and resources, helping you automate reactive processes to quickly diagnose and remediate operational issues. Customers can now build incident runbooks that automatically run remediation actions on the involved resources, such as turning on auto-scaling on a DynamoDB table that is approaching capacity before engaging the on-call engineer. Customers can also invoke additional runbooks directly from the Incident Manager console to help resolve the incident faster. When ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web applications. The Amazon Chime SDK client libraries for iOS and Android now include video background replacement and blur, which developers can use to reduce visual distractions and help increase visual privacy for mobile users. Video is processed locally on each user’s device before it is shared into the meeting. The background can either be replaced with an image, or obscured with an adjustable strength blur effect. Users can preview and adjust how their video background is processed prior to joining a ... Read More