Author: Amazon Web Services

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Glue includes crawlers, a capability that make discovering datasets simpler by scanning data in Amazon S3 and relational databases, extracting their schema and automatically populating the AWS Glue Data Catalog, which keeps the metadata current. This reduces the time to insight by making newly ingested data quickly available for analysis with your favorite analytics and machine learning tools. When configuring the AWS Glue crawler to discover data in Amazon S3, you can choose from a full scan, where all objects in a given path are processed every time the crawler runs, or incremental scan, where only ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Traditionally, read replicas of relational databases are often used as a data source for non-online transactions of web applications such as reporting, business analysis, ad hoc queries, operational excellence, and customer services. Due to the exponential growth of data volume, it became common practice to replace such read replicas with data warehouses or data lakes to have better scalability and performance. In most real-world use cases, it’s important to replicate the data from a source relational database to the target in real time. Change data capture (CDC) is one of the most common design patterns ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon RDS Proxy now supports Amazon RDS for MySQL major version 8.0. MySQL 8.0 is the latest Community Edition major version, and offers better performance, reliability, security, and manageability. To learn more about Amazon RDS for MySQL, please visit our details page or view our documentation. Amazon RDS Proxy is a fully managed and a highly available database proxy for Amazon Aurora and RDS databases. RDS proxy helps improve application scalability, resiliency, and security. To learn more, visit the RDS Proxy details page, see our tutorial, or view our documentation ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Amplify for JavaScript now supports pause, resume and cancel actions on file uploads to Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) via the Amplify Storage category. Amplify provides a set of use-case oriented UI components, libraries and command-line tools to make it easy for frontend web and mobile developer to build AWS cloud backends for their apps. With this release, developers can create experiences where end-users can reliably upload very large files, including raw video and large productivity documents. Being able to resume uploads is particularly useful for handling scenarios where a user experiences network interruption during an ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web applications. Developers can now use video background blur to obfuscate their users’ surroundings, which can help increase visual privacy. Video background blur runs locally in each user's browser, transforming video before it is shared into the meeting. Users can confirm their background is blurred prior to joining a meeting through video preview. The blur strength is adjustable, from a low-strength bokeh effect to a high-strength obfuscation. The segmentation model used to separate the users from their background uses WebAssembly (WASM) and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. As you increase the number of objects in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), you’ll need the ability to search through them and quickly find the information you need. In this blog post, we offer you a cost-effective solution that uses a serverless architecture to search through your metadata. Using a serverless architecture helps you reduce operational costs because you only pay for what you use. Our solution is built with Amazon S3 event notifications, AWS Lambda, AWS Glue Catalog, and Amazon Athena. These services allow you to search thousands of objects in an S3 bucket ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Mehdi Salehi. By Mehdi Salehi, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWSBy Boris Jelic, APAC OpenShift and Middleware Leader – IBM Red Hat For more than a decade, Red Hat has been an Amazon Web Services (AWS) strategic partner. In 2019, IBM acquired Red Hat, which has furthered IBM’s expertise in enabling the next-generation of enterprise applications on AWS. IBM maintains an extensive set of AWS competencies, validations, and certifications, and builds on Red Hat’s open hybrid cloud vision with vast experience in modernizing and transforming traditional applications. One of the offerings to help ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, you can trigger the interruption of an Amazon EC2 Spot Instance using AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS). Spot Instances use spare EC2 Capacity that is available up to 90% discount compared to the On-Demand price. In exchange for the discount, Spot Instances can be interrupted by Amazon EC2 when Amazon EC2 needs the capacity back. When using Spot Instances, you need to be prepared to be interrupted. With FIS, you can test the resiliency of your workload and validate that your application is reacting to the interruption notices that EC2 sends before terminating your instances ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Manny Adams. By Manny Adams, Sr. Manager – Cincinnati International AirportBy Bharat Saini, CTO – TaskWatchBy Amit Mukherjee, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWS TaskWatch The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) is expanding its long-standing relationship with TaskWatch to help automate manual processes and gain insight into its complex operations. Adding TaskWatch’s computer vision platform that works in conjunction with AWS Panorama, the Airport sees, adds, and explores distinct use cases for advanced artificial intelligence (AI). TaskWatch is leading the way for continuous improvement in capacity management and productivity, which are vital contributors to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. This post is written by Reagan Rosario, AWS Solutions Architect and Mark Curtis, Solutions Architect, WWPS. Batch processes are foundational to many organizations and can help process large amounts of information in an efficient and automated way. Use cases include file intake processes, queue-based processing, and transactional jobs, in addition to heavy data processing jobs. This post explains a serverless solution for batch processing to implement a file intake process. This example uses AWS Step Functions for orchestration, AWS Lambda functions for on-demand instance compute, Amazon S3 for storing the data, and Amazon ... Read More