Tag: Access

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Eliane Eisenring. By Eliane Eisenring, Communication Manager – Trivadis – Part of AccentureBy Simon R. Böhmer, Associate Cloud Application Architect – AWSBy Markus Winterholer, Delivery Practice Manager – AWS Trivadis Artificial intelligence (AI) is among the most disruptive technologies of our generation. Whether it’s used to drive innovation, reduce operational costs, increase efficiency, or improve customer experience—AI has completely changed the way business is made. Thus, it comes as no surprise that companies increasingly seek to make use of this technology. In “The state of AI in 2021” study by McKinsey & Company, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon QuickSight is a scalable, serverless, embeddable, machine learning (ML)-powered business intelligence (BI) service built for the cloud that supports identity federation in both Standard and Enterprise editions. Organizations are working towards centralizing their identity and access strategy across all their applications, including on premises, third-party, and applications on AWS. Many organizations use identity providers (IdPs) based on OIDC or SAML-based protocols like Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) or Okta to control and manage user authentication and authorization centrally. If your organization uses such IdPs for cloud applications, you may want to enable federation ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Modern data architectures encourage the integration of data lakes, data warehouses, and purpose-built data stores, enabling unified governance and easy data movement. With a modern data architecture on AWS, you can store data in a data lake and use a ring of purpose-built data services around the lake, allowing you to make decisions with speed and agility. To achieve a modern data architecture, AWS Glue is the key service that integrates data over a data lake, data warehouse, and purpose-built data stores. AWS Glue simplifies data movement like inside-out, outside-in, or around the perimeter. A ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Erin Chu. Security is priority number one at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Data stored in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is private by default. However, some datasets are made to be shared. Research organizations such as the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub (CZB) and the Allen Institute have missions to produce high quality, open access datasets for the research community. Other entities are required by law to openly share data for a period of time. On the AWS Open Data Team, we work with data providers who distribute datasets that follow a “one-to-many,” or even “one-to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ana Pinheiro Privette. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are critical tools being used in healthcare research, autonomous applications, predictive maintenance, and also a key tool used to advance sustainability solutions. However, to use AI and ML to solve sustainability problems, innovators need specific datasets that are prepared for analysis and training of the models. According to Anaconda’s 2021 State of Data Science survey, survey respondents said they spend “39% of their time on data prep and data cleansing, which is more than the time spent on model training, model selection, and deploying models ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; The Onion Router (Tor) is a privacy-focused browser that anonymizes your internet traffic to help you bypass internet censorship. In spite of its privacy benefits, you’d be wise to use the best VPN for Tor for security reasons. Key Takeaways: NordVPN is the best Tor VPN, thanks to its lightning-fast speeds, obfuscation technology and solid security. NordVPN, ExpressVPN and Surfshark use obfuscation technology. Besides hiding Tor use, they mask the fact that you’re using a VPN. NordVPN and ProtonVPN come with built-in support for Tor over VPN on select servers. They are ideal options if you want ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Now, you can optimize the costs of your DynamoDB workloads based on your tables’ storage requirements and data access patterns. The new DynamoDB Standard-IA table class offers 60 percent lower storage costs than the existing DynamoDB Standard tables, making it the most cost-effective option for tables with storage as the dominant table cost. The existing DynamoDB Standard table class offers 20 percent lower throughput costs than the DynamoDB Standard-IA table class. DynamoDB Standard remains your default table class and the most cost-effective option for the wider variety of tables that store frequently accessed data with throughput as ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Catalog now supports Attributed Based Access Controls (ABAC), allowing customers the ability to use tags to easily manage access and permissions to AWS resources in Service Catalog. Now, Service Catalog administrators have the ability to define their AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies to grant access and specify finer-grained permissions based on tags shared between AWS resource(s) and IAM users or roles. For example, based on a matching set of tags, an IAM entity (e.g., user or role) may be allowed or denied to create resources in their Service Catalog account ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Muffadal Quettawala. By Muffadal Quettawala, Partner Solutions Architect – AWSBy Anubhav Swami, Solutions Architect – Cisco Cisco As application workloads modernize into containerized form factors, organizations are demanding the same from the security tooling used to protect those application workloads. Customers would like to consume modernized, DevOps-friendly security controls without compromising elasticity, resiliency, and scalability. Cisco Secure Firewall Cloud Native (SFCN) is a lightweight network firewall in a cloud-native form factor. Offering granular control and massive throughput potential, SFCN enables security at the speed of business. It offers an easy way to deploy ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Arjun Ruparelia; ESPN is a popular sports streaming broadcaster where you can stream all major sporting events like MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, MLS and more. If you’re a sports buff, you probably know what ESPN is and also that you can’t watch certain events on ESPN blackout dates. Sports teams typically have two broadcast tiers — national and local broadcasts. Events where a team is playing outside its home area are typically broadcast nationally. On the other hand, teams playing in their home area are subject to agreements with the Regional Sports Network (RSN) or local networks ... Read More