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An API function. Also called operation or call. The activity the principal has permission to perform. The action is B in the statement “A has permission to do B to C where D applies.” For example, Jane sends a request to Amazon SQS with Action=ReceiveMessage. Amazon CloudWatch: The response initiated by the change in an alarm’s state: for example, from OK to ALARM. The state change may be triggered by a metric reaching the alarm threshold, or by a SetAlarmState request. Each alarm can have one or more actions assigned to each state. Actions are performed once each time the alarm changes to a state that has an action assigned, such as an Amazon Simple Notification Service notification, an Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling policy execution or an Amazon EC2 instance stop/terminate action.
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4 Keys to Creating Action-Based Dashboards
Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Nikos Acuña. For years, we’ve been hearing people in the tech sector call data “the new oil.” But at this point, data—which there is an incomprehensible amount of now—is only as valuable as what you do with it. Indeed, the ability to take action on all the information you have access to is the new competitive advantage. For that reason, it’s no surprise that more and more businesses are turning to tools such as action-based dashboards. Megan Connell is seeing it firsthand. Her company, Praxis Metrics, is increasingly setting organizations up with such dashboards, because business leaders are starting to understand that their companies or teams can be “just one data-driven action or decision away from exponential growth,” she said. Before you ... Read More
CAS Actions and Action Sets – a brief intro
Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Peter Styliadis. I'm excited to curate a series of posts focused on CAS Actions. However, before I dive into details and code, I thought I'd take a moment to lay a foundation for a better understanding of CAS and CAS actions. I'll cover things here at a high level as there's quite a bit of information out there already. Please see the Additional Resources section at the end of this article for more details. CAS actions are highly optimized units of work for SAS Viya's Cloud Analytics Services (CAS) distributed computing engine. Think of CAS actions ... Read More
Field Notes: Deliver Messages Using an IoT Rule Action to Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. With IoT devices scaling up rapidly, real-time data integration and data processing has become a major challenge. This is why customers often choose Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) for message ingestion, and Apache Kafka to build a real-time streaming data pipeline. AWS IoT Core now supports a new IoT rule action to deliver messages from your devices directly to your Amazon MSK or self-managed Apache Kafka clusters for data analysis and visualization, without you having to write a single line of code. In this post, you learn how to set up a real-time streaming data pipeline ... Read More
A million images a minute: a behind-the-scenes look at the loadImages action in SAS Viya
Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Fijoy Vadakkumpadan. Images represent one of the largest drivers of data growth. Consumer devices, medical image scanners, imaging satellites, etc. generate astounding amounts of data daily. Efficiently processing these large swaths of raw data, using computer vision techniques to uncover decision-making insights, represents one of the biggest challenges of the present-day world. SAS® Viya® is one of the solutions that SAS offers to address this challenge. Specifically, SAS® Visual Data Mining and Machine Learning empowers customers with computer vision techniques to analyze image data and its associated metadata at scale. It offers traditional approaches like Canny ... Read More
BrandPost: Putting Design Thinking into Action
Feed: CIO. Author: . Although the design thinking mind-set and approach is not new, it has become a business buzzword of late. At the same time, it remains a practical framework, adopted across a variety of industries, enriched with other proven approaches. It is used to develop reliable and repeatable products and services that resonate well with customers, consistently produce financial rewards, and build brand loyalty.According to the Design Management Institute (dmi.org), many publicly traded companies such as Apple, Coca-Cola, IBM, Nike, Procter & Gamble, and others have integrated design thinking into their corporate strategy.Currently, there is a surge in ... Read More
Configure GitHub Actions workflows with a new GitHub Action for building serverless applications
Feed: Recent Announcements. You can now simplify the process of configuring GitHub Actions workflows for building serverless applications with a single line. The new AWS-supported setup-sam GitHub Action makes it easier to keep consistency across GitHub Actions runners, stay up-to-date with AWS Serverless Application Model CLI (AWS SAM CLI) tooling, and select its versions. The AWS SAM CLI is a developer tool that makes it easier to build, locally test, package, and deploy serverless applications. GitHub Actions is a service that helps automate tasks within the software development lifecycle. GitHub Actions runner is the application that runs a job from ... Read More
The Power BI report action bar is now available in the Power BI SharePoint Online webpart
Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . SharePoint Online is a great way for organizations to create portals and team sites for distributing Power BI reports. However, users consuming Power BI reports through SharePoint Online have not had access to the full capabilities of Power BI. We’re addressing this limitation with a new option to enable the Power BI report action bar in SharePoint Online. The action bar lets report viewers access important capabilities to be more productive with the reports they use in SharePoint. With the action bar, users can now easily Analyze in Excel, Export ... Read More
Best of DP21: Top Watches in the ‘Intelligent Action’ Track
Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Scott Resch. In the last of our three-part series on the pillars of modern BI and the most resonant Domopalooza 2021 sessions around each ballast, we spotlight Domo CEO Josh James’s favorite pillar—and perhaps the most important: intelligent action. You see, it’s one thing to gain knowledge from data analytics and business intelligence. It’s another to put those insights to use. These days, competitive advantage is built by moving beyond dashboards and using intelligent apps, machine learning, and data science to transform data-driven insights into concrete actions. “Intelligent action is where Domo takes modern BI and supercharges it,” Josh said during his Domopalooza keynote. That’s because intelligent action ... Read More
Workflow Fix: How UDAPs Heal Fractured Data Landscapes
Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Joe Hilleary. If you’ve ever walked several dogs at once, you understand the challenge of a complex data environment. Each dog moves at a slightly different pace, pulls you in a different direction, and has its own needs and environmental stressors.Data products provide a similar challenge. Between different data models, formats, and other software eccentricities, even a skilled team of data engineers and architects can struggle to make tools play nicely with one another. Now, contrast the image of the neighborhood dog walker getting yanked down the street with a musher driving a team of sled ... Read More
Field Notes: Connecting Industrial Assets and Machines to the AWS Cloud
Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. One of the challenges faced by manufacturers who are building a smart factory, is how to securely connect to and ingest data from operational data sources. These include machines and industrial assets connecting into their industrial data platform. The ‘industrial edge’ is a foundational architectural building block that addresses this and enables OT/IT integration (operational technology/information technology) by extending Cloud services into the four walls of a factory. These services provide secure industrial connectivity, data ingestion and transformation, and the platform to deploy and run Industry 4.0 microservice applications and machine learning models in factories for ... Read More
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