Tag: AD

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. In the first post of this series, Federate access to your Amazon Redshift cluster with Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS): Part 1, you set up Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) based authentication and tested the SAML federation using a web browser. In Part 2, you learned to set up an Amazon Redshift cluster and use federated authentication with AD FS to connect from a JDBC SQL client tool. In this post, we walk through the steps to configure Amazon Redshift query editor v2 to work with ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Andrej Hadji-Vasilev; Ask anyone what the first extension to install on a browser should be, and they will probably say it’s an ad blocker. We wouldn’t blame them, either, since lately ads seem to be on every website you visit. To some extent, we understand — websites need to make money from somewhere. On the other hand, ads suck, so you should install one of the best ad blockers.  Key Takeaways: Using ad blockers is a must if you want to enjoy websites’ content without annoying pop-ups and huge ads that take up your entire screen. If you ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Redshift accelerates your time to insights with fast, easy, and secure cloud data warehousing at scale. Tens of thousands of customers rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries. The new Amazon Redshift native identity provider authentication simplifies administration by sharing identity and group membership information to Amazon Redshift from a third-party identity provider (IdP) service, such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), and enabling Amazon Redshift to natively process third-party tokens, identities, and group permissions. This process is very easy to set up, provides a secure ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Redshift accelerates your time to insights with fast, easy, and secure cloud data warehousing at scale. Tens of thousands of customers rely on Amazon Redshift to analyze exabytes of data and run complex analytical queries. As enterprise customers look to build their data warehouse on Amazon Redshift, they have many integration needs with the business intelligence (BI) tools they’re using. For customers who want to integrate Amazon Redshift with their existing identity provider (IdP) such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) using BI tools and services such as Power BI Desktop and Power ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Benjamin Smith. [This article was first published on r – bensstats, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here) Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't. Recently, I have started taking a course on Bayesian statistics and using Stan– a fast language designed specifically for preforming the simulations necessary for Bayesian analysis by employing Markov-Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. While it may sound abstract, thousands of users rely on Stan for statistical modeling, data analysis, and prediction ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory (AWS Managed Microsoft AD) now helps optimize scaling decisions for improved performance and resilience with Amazon CloudWatch. Starting today, AWS Managed Microsoft AD provides domain controller and directory utilization metrics in Amazon CloudWatch for new and existing directories automatically. Analyzing these utilization metrics helps you quantify your average and peak load times to identify the need for additional domain controllers. With this, you can define the number of domain controllers to meet your performance, resilience, and cost requirements. AWS Managed Microsoft AD provides utilization metrics in Amazon CloudWatch such as CPU, Memory, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easier to analyze data directly in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Cloud operation teams can use AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) federation to centrally manage access to Athena. This simplifies administration by allowing a governing team to control user access to Athena workgroups from a centrally managed Azure AD connected to an on-premise Active Directory. This setup reduces the overhead experience by cloud operation teams when managing IAM users. Athena supports federation with Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS), PingFederate, Okta, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports prefetch ad requests for personalized ad insertion. Prefetching manages the request of ads in advance of ad breaks, increasing the time an ad decision server (ADS) has to respond. Live events with spikes in audience viewership benefit from prefetch ad requests as they provide additional time for real-time bidding for ad impression transactions and for new ad assets to transcode which can increase revenue and ad-fill rates. To learn more, visit the MediaTailor documentation pages. AWS Elemental MediaTailor is a channel assembly and ad-insertion service for creating linear OTT channels using existing video ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. This post is co-written with Mat Sharpe, Technical Lead, AWS & Systems Engineering from Integral Ad Science. Integral Ad Science (IAS) is a global leader in digital media quality. The company’s mission is to be the global benchmark for trust and transparency in digital media quality for the world’s leading brands, publishers, and platforms. IAS does this through data-driven technologies with actionable real-time signals and insight. In this post, we discuss how IAS uses AWS Lake Formation and Amazon Athena to efficiently manage governance and security of data. The challenge IAS processes over 100 billion ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, you can use Common Access Card (CAC) and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) smart cards to authenticate users into Amazon WorkSpaces through your self-managed Active Directory (AD) and AWS Directory Service AD Connector in US East (Northern Virginia), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) Regions. Additionally, you can now use the AWS Management Console to configure smart card authentication with AWS Directory Service. Previously, smart card authentication with AD Connector for Amazon WorkSpaces was only supported in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region and could only be configured through the AWS ... Read More