Tag: Amazon Web Services

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ben Butler. Left: healthy lungs, captured in a CT scan; right: the lungs of someone infected with COVID-19. Technology and the cloud can help address some of the world’s most pressing and immediate challenges, like battling COVID-19 and improving cities. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we encourage innovation through technology in our AWS Cloud Innovation Centers (CICs). CICs are long-term, strategic collaborations with public sector organizations interested in solving societal problems through digital solutions while providing students a platform to learn by doing. The goal of CICs is to solve public sector challenges that ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ram Dileepan. By Ram Dileepan, Sr. Solutions Architect at AWSBy Kyle Tryon, Partner Integration Engineer at CircleCICircleCI has released an aws-serverless-framework orb to make it easier to continuously integrate and deploy serverless applications built using the Serverless Framework. An orb is a sharable package of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) configurations that is easy to use and makes the software delivery faster and less error prone. CircleCI is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner with an AWS DevOps Competency. Its continuous integration and delivery platform allows teams to rapidly release ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for technology and consulting businesses who leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build solutions and services for customers.The APN helps companies build, market, and sell their AWS offerings by providing valuable business, technical, and marketing support. There are tens of thousands of APN Partners across the globe. More than 90 percent of Fortune 100 companies and the majority of Fortune 500 companies utilize APN Partner solutions and services. At AWS re:Invent 2019, we met up with APN Partners and asked them about ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Anna Redmile. A guest post from Anna Redmile, Education PerfectIn 2012, Education Perfect (EP) wanted to use the cloud to access the necessary infrastructure that would allow EP to reach classrooms globally and rapidly scale. The financial metrics were simple for us. The cloud would allow us to focus on our mission and reduce costs. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was our first choice. EP is an education technology (EdTech) organization that uses advanced algorithms and text-to-speech technology to improve learning through a library of lessons and assessments across multiple subject areas. Our mission is ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Anya Bali. Thinking about using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for your public sector organization? There’s a lot to consider when you’re getting started—so we’re here to help. Explore these resources to get familiar with AWS, assess your migration readiness, and determine the next steps in your digital transformation. Learn at your own pace With AWS Training and Certification, you can learn about the cloud from AWS experts, at your own pace. From foundational courses that give you an overview of the cloud to deep dives into specific services and solution areas, these courses provide ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kevin Glover. By Kevin Glover, Product Manager at Tableau SoftwareBy Brandon Schur, Software Engineer, Amazon RedshiftBy Srinivas Kesanapally, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Arif Razvi, Head of Partnerships, AWS Data ExchangeAs COVID-19 upends our health, our economy, our world, and our daily lives, people in every sector and country are turning to data to stay informed, share information, and respond with confidence. Organizations are using COVID-19 data to make critical decisions confidently and quickly. Data is helping healthcare workers, researchers, scientists, public health officials, and first responders on the front lines as they ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Binoy Das. By Binoy Das, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Jim Falgout, VP of Operations at KNIMEWith rapid advancements in machine learning (ML) techniques over the past decade, intelligent decision-making and prediction systems are poised to transform productivity and lead to significant economic gains. A study conducted by PwC Global concludes that by the end of this decade, the total positive impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the global economy could be above $15 trillion, driven mostly by enhancements in consumer products. To make that happen, however, businesses must make strategic investments in ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES) is a fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, secure, scale, and monitor your Elasticsearch cluster in the AWS Cloud. Elasticsearch is a distributed database solution, which can be difficult to plan for and execute. This post discusses some best practices for deploying Amazon ES domains.The most important practice is to iterate. If you follow these best practices, you can plan for a baseline Amazon ES deployment. Elasticsearch behaves differently for every workload—its latency and throughput are largely determined by the request mix, the requests themselves, and the ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The AWS Toolkit for JetBrains is an open source plugin for the integrated development environments (IDEs) from JetBrains. The toolkit makes it easier to create, debug, and deploy software applications on Amazon Web Services using any of the supported JetBrains IDEs (IntelliJ IDEA, PyCharm, WebStorm, Rider, CLion, PhpStorm, GoLand or RubyMine). Using the Toolkits, you can view resources in your AWS account in the ‘AWS Resource Explorer View’, and access various services, such as viewing the S3 browser, CloudWatch logs, remote lambda invoke from your IDE.   ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. In January 2020 at the BETT show in London, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new contest designed to find some of the best applications of voice technology in education. Our challenge to the EdTechs in Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA)? Tell us how you would use Alexa to transform education. From tutoring help and language learning programs to teaching guides and career planning tools, EdTechs submitted a range of creative and potentially impactful ideas. Submissions focused on challenges like how to improve teaching practices, learning throughout life, ... Read More