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Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Luis Gerardo Baeza. Managing the influx of data, and designing strategies to draw effective insights from the deluge of information, is key for public sector organizations looking to innovate. For example, as the 2020 National Data Strategy states, the UK government is taking new action to improve data use in order to experiment and drive a new era of growth to benefit citizens. But to accomplish these goals, government agencies need talent. And according to a Deloitte study, data science jobs typically take 45 days to fill—five days longer than the US market average ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Managed Service for Grafana (AMG) is a fully managed service that manages the provisioning, setup, scaling, and maintenance of Grafana servers, eliminating the need for customers to do this themselves. Customers can now upgrade their AMG workspaces to Grafana Enterprise with a 30-day free trial via an AWS Marketplace subscription, enabling access to Enterprise data source plugins such as ServiceNow, Splunk, and New Relic as well as support, training, and consultation directly from Grafana Labs. AMG now also supports open source Grafana version 7.5, which includes new features such as support for larger Prometheus queries via ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. User Defined Functions (UDF), which enable users to apply custom operations to their data, are now generally available for Amazon Athena. While Athena provides a wide range of built-in functions, users can extend these capabilities with their own functions and use them directly within their queries. This allows users to address specific use cases, such as redacting or encrypting sensitive data, without the need for complex data processing steps elsewhere in their data pipeline. Customers can write UDF in Java using the Athena Query Federation SDK. When a UDF is used in an Athena query, it is ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Backup extends centralized backup management for Amazon FSx to AWS Europe (Milan), AWS Africa (Cape Town), AWS Middle East (Bahrain), and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. You can create, manage, and restore your Amazon FSx backups directly from AWS Backup. AWS Backup support for Amazon FSx file systems includes Amazon FSx for Windows File Server and Amazon FSx for Lustre file systems.   AWS Backup enables you to centralize and automate data protection across AWS services. It offers a cost-effective, fully managed, policy-based service that further simplifies data protection at scale. In addition, AWS Backup helps you ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Pinpoint is now authorized as FedRAMP High in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region. This service is also approved as Department of Defense Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide Impact Level 2 (DoD SRG IL-2) in this Region. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) is a US government-wide program that delivers a standard approach to the security assessment, authorization, and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. FedRAMP uses the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800 series. It requires cloud service providers to receive an independent security assessment conducted by a third-party assessment ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS CloudFormation StackSets extend the functionality of stacks by enabling you to create, update, or delete stacks across multiple AWS accounts and Regions with a single operation. We are now announcing the support for CloudFormation Macros and transforms in templates that are used to create a stack set. AWS CloudFormation macros perform custom processing on CloudFormation templates from simple actions such as find-and-replace, to helping transform the entire template. CloudFormation macros use the same technology that powers AWS::Include and AWS::Serverless transforms. CloudFormation transforms help simplify template authoring by condensing the expression of AWS infrastructure as code and enabling ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. This post was authored by Venkatesh Muthusami, Principle Consultant, Infosys Technologies, Sudharsan Chinnappan, Analyst, System Development, Infosys Technologies, Kenneth Francis Dias, Technology Architect, Infosys Technologies, and Ashutosh Pateriya, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS Pipelines are crucial to the oil and gas industry across upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. For industries like oil and gas, the pipeline network forms the backbone for transportation, and corrosion in these pipelines pose a significant challenge. Inspections on pipelines help companies identify potential failures and proactively remediate issues to minimize business operations. These monitoring activities are labor-intensive since they are usually carried ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Joe Flasher. The AWS Open Data Sponsorship Program makes high-value, cloud-optimized datasets publicly available on Amazon Web Services (AWS). We work with data providers to democratize access to data by making it available for analysis on AWS; develop new cloud-native techniques, formats, and tools that lower the cost of working with data; and encourage the development of communities that benefit from access to shared datasets. Our full list of publicly available datasets are on the Registry of Open Data on AWS. This quarter, we released 28 new datasets including data on SARS-CoV-2 viral genomes, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Kinesis Data Streams for Amazon DynamoDB now supports AWS CloudFormation, which means you can enable streaming to an Amazon Kinesis data stream on your DynamoDB tables with CloudFormation templates. By streaming your DynamoDB data changes to a Kinesis data stream, you can build advanced streaming applications with Amazon Kinesis services. For example, Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics reduces the complexity of building, managing, and integrating with Apache Flink, and provides built-in functions to filter, aggregate, and transform streaming data for advanced analytics. You also can use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose to take advantage of managed streaming delivery of DynamoDB table data to other AWS services such as ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports integrating with Microsoft Power BI, a business analytics service that delivers insights to enable fast, informed decisions. Powered by the Open Distro for Elasticsearch ODBC Driver you can now integrate your Microsoft Power BI environment with you Amazon Elasticsearch Service domains using the Open Distro for Elasticsearch SQL Engine. The Open Distro for Elasticsearch SQL Engine uses Structured Query Language (SQL) to manifest search results in a tabular format. One of the key features of this engine is the Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) driver which enables you to integrate various business intelligence ... Read More