Tag: Amazon Web Services

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Michael Moussa, APN Ambassador at RackspaceThis year’s AWS re:Invent was a nonstop, high-powered firehose of exciting new features and products. Native PHP support on Lambda wasn’t one of those features, but the new AWS Lambda runtime API and layers capabilities give us the ability to build a clean, supportable implementation of PHP on Lambda of our own. In this post, we’ll take a brief look at the overall workflow and runtime lifecycle, and then I’ll show you one way to build a PHP runtime to start powering your PHP applications on AWS Lambda ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Shashi Raina. By Shashi Raina, Partner Solution Architect at AWSBy Veda Shankar, Senior Developer Advocate at OmniSciWe generate quintillions of bytes of data every day, but on the face of it the data is not necessarily useful. To make data useful, it should be processed into information. In this post, we’ll talk about how OmniSci, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Standard Technology Partner, provides a platform to make this process of changing data into information faster, cheaper, and interactive. With the rapid growth of data comes the challenge of getting meaningful information from ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Whatever your industry, data is central to how organizations function. When we discuss data strategy with customers, it’s often in the context of how do they ingest, store, process, analyze, distribute, and ultimately secure data.Amazon EMR is a managed Hadoop framework that you use to process vast amounts of data. One of the reasons that customers choose Amazon EMR is its security features. For example, customers like FINRA in regulated industries such as financial services, and in healthcare, choose Amazon EMR as part of their data strategy. They do so to adhere to strict regulatory ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Web Services is Hiring. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a dynamic, growing business unit within Amazon.com. We are currently hiring Software Development Engineers, Product Managers, Account Managers, Solutions Architects, Support Engineers, System Engineers, Designers and more. Visit our careers page to learn more. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Ross Warren, Solutions Architect at AWSAWS Security Hub is a new service in Preview that provides customers with a comprehensive view of their security and compliance state across their Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. The service aggregates findings from other AWS services such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, and integrations with AWS Security Partners. AWS Security Hub brings these findings together in a single dashboard per region and consolidates them into actionable, easy-to-understand graphs and tables. The service supports the concept of Insights, which are grouped security findings, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The climate data factory is a French startup working on making future climate information easily accessible. The team believes that easy access to actionable data of future climate conditions is essential to fight climate change.Read on for the Q&A with Dr. Harilaos Loukos of the climate data factory on how we can best make use of data. What is future climate information and what do you mean by “ready to use”? Future climate information is created by climate models that simulate the Earth’s future climate, while considering scenarios of future atmospheric ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. AWS Glue is a fully managed extract, transform, and load (ETL) service that makes it easy to prepare and load data for analytics. AWS Glue uses connections to access certain types of source and target data stores, as described in the AWS Glue documentation.By default, you can use AWS Glue to create connections to data stores in the same AWS account and AWS Region as the one where you have AWS Glue resources. In this blog post, we describe how to access data stores in an account or AWS Region different from the one where ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Tom Tasker, EMEA Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSThe most commonly used file shares have traditionally taken the form of dedicated and special purpose hardware in the datacenter, managed by storage specialists. The files are hosted, secured, and delivered either via Network File System (NFS) exports for Unix or Server Message Block (SMB) shares for Windows. In this post, we’ll take a look at a solution from SoftNAS, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner with the AWS Storage Competency. Their solution can consolidate file shares onto Amazon Web ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Alyssa Johnson. Cloud computing skills are in high demand right now. However, on the down-side, statistics have shown that there is a shortage of cybersecurity professionals. Today, 40 percent of businesses are looking for ways to find employees who are qualified in this kind of computing.  By 2019, there will be 1.5 million job openings and the talent market are not expected to catch up to this demand. However, that doesn’t stop educators and organizations from bridging that gap. Thousands of quality resources are available to help both established engineers and budding techies get ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Henry Axelrod, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSThe ability for modern organizations to share information and documents is more important than ever. In today’s global environment, having file sharing that is limited to a single datacenter is no longer sufficient for many companies. IT administrators need to provide business-efficient ways to share those documents. File sync and share platforms allow companies to share files within their organization, beyond the boundaries of their own datacenter. Instead of accessing all files from a single location, with sync and share the files can be ... Read More