Tag: Amazon Web Services

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Jennifer Davis, Product Marketing at AWS Training and Certification You can now register for the new AWS Certified Alexa Skill Builder – Specialty certification, the industry’s first and only certification that validates your ability to build, test, and publish Alexa Skills. This offering enables AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners to validate their Alexa and cloud expertise with an industry-recognized credential, building credibility among your clients and prospects. With Alexa, you can reach customers through more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices. “Our clients are looking for more innovative ways to drive ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. In this episode of This is My Architecture, filmed in 2018 on the last day of re:Invent (a learning conference hosted by Amazon Web Services for the global cloud computing community), FICO lead Software Engineer Sven Ahlfeld talks to AWS Solutions Architect Tom Jones about how the company uses a combination of AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions to architect an on-demand solution for fraud detection and anti-money laundering.When you think of FICO, you probably thing credit score. And that’s true: founded in 1956, FICO introduced analytic solutions–such as credit scoring–that have made credit more widely ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; Life insurance purchasing rates are at their lowest in 50 years. The process of purchasing life insurance is notoriously complicated. It requires a lengthy application process, health checks, and can take weeks or months for approval. A new digital life insurance startup is looking to revolutionize the life insurance purchasing process. The company has introduced an easy online application process with immediate approval, which relies on innovative, custom software that can underwrite insurance instantly. Their goal is to disrupt the traditional life insurance market and appeal to younger consumers with a transparent, on-demand purchasing process ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; by Jenelle Kemp, Technical Product Manager, Logicworks Everyone wants to keep their information safe. How can you make certain that the files you or your company have uploaded to the cloud are protected? The need for encryption has become foundational as companies move from private data centers to the cloud. It is a requirement for most compliance standards and may provide legal cover if there is a breach in security. However, many organizations run into trouble when their cloud storage contains a confusing mix of unencrypted and encrypted files – and no idea how they ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; The hospitality industry is in the midst of a major technology disruption. Hotel chains are exploring data analytics, artificial intelligence, voice-based search, and other tools to transform the guest experience — and are investing heavily in cloud solutions to achieve their vision. A global hotel chain with over $1B in annual revenue was an early adopter of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2012. The hotel chain’s IT team continually experiments with new products in order to deliver a more personalized customer experience, and have built a state-of-the-art, scalable, secure cloud platform on AWS to keep ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Geert Wenes, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSMany high performance computing (HPC) and grid customers with large technical and on-premises computing systems select IBM Spectrum LSF and IBM Spectrum Symphony for policy-driven control and scheduling. Spectrum Symphony schedules tasks very fast: in milliseconds, rather than in seconds for conventional schedulers. It also supports tens of thousands of compute nodes and hundreds of applications on a scalable, shared, and heterogeneous multi-site grid. For you, this translates into better application performance, better throughput, better utilization, and the ability to respond quickly to business ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Moses Vandenberg. Do you know that the global business community will be spending $310 billion on the Internet of Things (IoT) by 2020? Isn’t it a huge investment! Why is this trend booming?   Actually, the IoT has encapsulated devices. The software, sensors, actuators and connectivity through vehicles and home appliances are penetrating deeply. This networking model is skyrocketing in almost every walk of life. That’s why small entrepreneurs to big industrialists are hungry for the digital connectivity, interactivity and exchange of data over the internet. Its reason is intelligence that ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Preet Virk. By Kiran Chadalavada, AWS Business Leader at Cognizant AWS PracticeBy Soumya Banerjee, Lead Architect, AWS Practice at Cognizant AWS PracticeHundreds of large enterprises rely on Cognizant’s ability to provide customized cloud management platform capabilities with a differentiated experience. To excel, we integrate multiple management tools into our Cloud Management Platform (CMP) to provide a unified view of customers’ Amazon Web Services (AWS) environments. When it comes to managing workloads across hybrid and heterogeneous cloud environments, a key challenge is dealing with asset tracking. This includes software and hardware inventory. As we provide customers ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Amazon Web Services (AWS) CEO, Andy Jassy, spoke with Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at AWS, in a fireside chat at the 2019 AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC. The conversation spanned a variety of topics including how AWS is helping public sector customers accelerate their pace of innovation, how organizations can leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence, the unwavering support of AWS for our defense and national security customers, and the critical nature of moving fast to solve public sector challenges.View the full video of the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. As cloud transforms the public sector, every organization has the ability to think big and transform their ability to achieve their mission. From enabling the workforce to securing data to finding the right tool for the right job, organizations can design for a future of continual innovation, enabled by AWS.See below for the 15 highlights, speakers, and announcements from the Tuesday Keynote at the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC. GOVERNMENT Intelligence Community solves complex problems with the cloud In 2013, the Intelligence Community made a decision to invest in ... Read More