Tag: Amazon Web Services

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; If you’re new to Puppet Tasks™, here’s a quick primer. Puppet Tasks complements Puppet’s model-driven approach to automation by adding the ability to easily execute ad hoc tasks in an declarative way — doing exactly what you want, when you want it. The goal is to make it simple for you to do things like troubleshoot systems and devices, deploy point-in-time changes, and execute commands in an ordered fashion as part of an application deployment workflow.Puppet Tasks is available two ways: Bolt, an agentless open source task runner that can can run ad ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Today Amazon Web Services announced AWS OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise. OpsWorks has seen a lot of demand for a Puppet Enterprise offering and we’ve been working closely with the OpsWorks team to meet that demand. (Not familiar with OpsWorks? It’s a cloud-based configuration management service that enables enterprises to automate the management of their cloud infrastructure running on AWS.) With OpsWorks for Puppet Enterprise, you can use the same configurations to manage both your on-premises and cloud infrastructure, accelerating migration to the cloud and increasing your ability to efficiently scale your operations in ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Tom Tasker. By Tom Tasker, EMEA Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSMicrosoft SQL (MSSQL) is an enterprise-level database application used by some of the world’s largest companies. With business-critical data housed in MSSQL databases, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) are essential features of any MSSQL deployment that businesses have to architect for. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), server resources for large MSSQL deployments can be taken out of the data center and run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The ability to boot these instances in minutes provides ease ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Jane Paek. A little snow couldn’t stop the Redis community from coming out in force to our first Redis Day of the year in Seattle. Held on January 13–14 at the Hyatt Regency, Redis Day Seattle brought together some 300 developers, engineers, software architects, programmers, and business professionals for intensive training, thought leadership, and networking. On day one, Redis users from beginners to experts packed the conference room for a full schedule of hands-on training covering everything from Redis basics to Redis Streaming Architectures, Probabilistic Data Structures, and RediSearch. The following day, attendees heard from representatives of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. In its mission is to maintain, train, and equip combat-ready naval forces, the U.S. Navy automates many back-office functions related to technology, services, and human resources so that members of the Navy can make informed decisions and focus on their tasks at hand. However, these on-premises systems have historically been disconnected and dispersed, making it challenging to collect, process, and analyze mission-critical information quickly. To combat that disconnect, the U.S. Navy is moving the largest enterprise resource planning (ERP) system – 72,000 users spread across six U.S ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Derek Belt. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS). We enable APN Partners to build, market, and sell their AWS-based offerings, and we help customers identify top APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives.To receive APN program designations such as AWS Competency, AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery, organizations must undergo rigorous technical validation and assessment of their AWS solutions and practices. These designations help customers team up with specialized APN Partners that can provide value-added services and solutions. Guidance from these ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. We are pleased to share the latest updates to our AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP) Partner Program requirements in Version 4.1 of the Validation Checklist.This version reflects our most recent program criteria, with improvements focused on raising the bar for both our MSP Partners and Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers. By maintaining a high bar in this program, MSP Partners realize greater value by achieving elite recognition for their distinguished capabilities, and AWS customers can have increased confidence in working with AWS MSP Partners. Download the AWS MSP Partner Program Validation ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Professor Rainer Schmidt. Social information systems – how we share information – use both public systems such as social media and private systems internal to organizations such as internal blogs and wikis. These systems increasingly influence opinion-forming processes in societies and organizations, and supplement and sometimes replace traditional media such as newspapers, radio, and TV. The strength of social information systems lies in their ability to present previously unestablished opinions and viewpoints as fact, and can be used to disseminate false information, leading to polarization. The Munich University of Applied Science (MUAS) ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Phil Silver. Our cities are becoming smarter and faster every day, and as the modern city evolves so does its transportation offerings. By migrating transportation services to the cloud, cities can evolve to meet constituents’ transportation needs. To meet a modern-day travelers’ expectations, the cloud drives innovation by providing real-time analytics and predictive modeling that can make transportation easier and faster. Amazon Web Services (AWS) works with leading transportation technologies to help build cloud solutions for airports, seaports, mass transit, tollways, municipal planning, parking authorities, motor vehicle departments, traffic management departments, and ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ashley Lozito; We are so excited to announce that Matillion has achieved the Amazon Redshift Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that Matillion ETL, Matillion’s flagship product, has demonstrated successful integration with Amazon Redshift. Matillion ETL for Redshift is also the top-rated product in AWS Marketplace. Amazon has many partners but only some products are truly integrated with their solutions. Achieving the Amazon Redshift Ready designation differentiates Matillion as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a product integrating with Amazon Redshift and is generally available and fully ... Read More