Tag: Amazon Web Services

Feed: Recent Announcements. If you have a HIPAA Business Associate Addendum (BAA) in place with AWS, you can now start using Amazon Textract for your HIPAA eligible workloads. If you don't have a BAA in place with AWS, or if you have any other questions about running HIPAA-regulated workloads on AWS, please contact us.  For information and best practices about configuring AWS HIPAA Eligible Services to store, process, and transmit PHI, see the Architecting for HIPAA Security and Compliance on Amazon Web Services Whitepaper. Amazon Textract is a service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents. Amazon Textract ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Arvind Lakshminarayanan. Ever since the inception of cloud-computing solutions, several sectors, including banks and Fintech, are slowly migrating to it. With numerous benefits, the cloud is turning out to be the ultimate storage option for your data. Even for personal storage, platforms, such as Google Drive or Dropbox are leading the race.Migrating from traditional data centers to the cloud might sound daunting but the endless benefits makes it an option to consider.What are cloud computing technologies?In layman’s term, cloud is a form of storage which allows users to store data on the internet.Cloud computing ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: John Newson. Partners in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN) are increasingly adopting cloud and rapidly transforming their businesses to help their public sector customers achieve their missions. This transformation can create a challenge for organizations without the proper skills in their workforce.A recent LinkedIn report found that top emerging jobs in 2018 were in areas like machine learning, software as a service (SaaS), and artificial intelligence (AI)¹. And according to the IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2019 Predictions, the talent pool for emerging technologies will be inadequate to fill ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. AWS DRT Volunteer on the ground in Abaco, Bahamas When Hurricane Dorian, a Category 5 storm, struck the Bahamas on September 1, 2019, first responders and aid organizations knew the damage would be significant. Dorian set the record for worst natural disaster to strike the Bahamas and became one of the two most powerful storms to make landfall from the Atlantic Ocean. Organizations standing ready to assist knew they needed innovative solutions to solve some of the more complex problems facing the island’s recovery. In the storm’s ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. This October 20-23 in Philadelphia, the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Council (ACT-IAC), a public-private partnership of community and government leaders, will host Imagine Nation ELC 2019.The three-day event brings together more than 1,000 attendees – a third from government, including executives and leaders – to discuss how to improve government through technology. This year’s theme is “Driving Impact! Innovation through Government and Industry Collaboration” and session topics include workforce, acquisition, data, customer experience, supply chain/blockchain, privacy, process automation, shared services, the cloud (Agile, DevOps, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Neelay Thaker. This post is contributed by Jeff Underhill | EC2 Principal Business Development ManagerAmazon Corretto is a no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK). Production-ready Linux builds of JDK8 and JDK 11 for the 64-bit Arm architecture were released Sep 17, 2019. Scale-out Java applications can get significant cost savings using the Arm-based Amazon EC2 A1 instances. Read on to learn more about Amazon EC2 A1 instances, Amazon Corretto, and how support for 64-bit Arm in Amazon Corretto is a significant development for Java developers building cloud native applications. What ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Oxford University Press (OUP) is a department of the University of Oxford and the largest university press in the world. In 2015, OUP launched the Oxford Global Languages (OGL) initiative aiming to build lexical resources for 100 of the world’s languages and make them freely available online. A special focus is reserved to digitally under-represented languages (languages spoken by millions of native speakers, but whose lexical resources on the Internet may be of poor quality or unavailable). To date, OUP has launched 20 language websites, which include ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Jon Keeter. By Craig Macfarlane, CTO at TDSBy Jon Keeter, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWSAs the adoption of Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to grow, the need for highly reliable workload migrations at an accelerated pace is paramount. This is particularly true for enterprises turning to AWS to host mission-critical and legacy applications. Organizations need a solution that expedites the migration process, without introducing further risk. In this post, we will introduce an integration of TDS TransitionManager with CloudEndure Migration, an AWS solution that accelerates cloud migration projects to AWS while reducing risk ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Amazon Web Services (AWS) serves more than a million private and public sector organizations all over the world from its extensive and expanding global infrastructure.Like other countries, organizations all around New Zealand are using AWS to change the way they operate. For example, Xero, a Wellington-based online accountancy software vendor, now serves customers in more than 100 countries, while the Department of Conservation provides its end users with virtual desktops running in Amazon Workspaces. New Zealand doesn’t currently have a dedicated AWS Region. Geographically, the closest is Asia Pacific (Sydney), which is 2,000 kilometers (km) away, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Amit Khanal, Solutions Architect at CloudinaryOver the last decade, the number of photos our society has taken and stored is absolutely mind-blowing. Estimates suggest that more than 1 trillion photos were taken in 2018. The shift to digital photography, combined with the availability of smartphone cameras, has made it easy for photographers of all skill levels to take and upload an enormous amount of content every year. These massive image collections can be difficult to manage and organize, let alone a brand that’s trying to manage and deliver tens of ... Read More