Tag: Amazon Web Services

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Maliha Balala. Formation of mammatus clouds over the city of Regina Saskatchewan (source: Craig Lindsay on Wikimedia Commons) Download two free chapters from "Moving Hadoop to the Cloud" to learn more about harnessing the cloud for Hadoop clusters. When news broke that Amazon was acquiring Whole Foods, brick and mortar retailers panicked. Many industries are feeling pressure to undergo digital transformation for fear of being “Amazoned” (acquired by an online competitor). The International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts worldwide spending on digital transformation technologies will grow to more than $1.2 trillion in 2017 (an increase ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Jesse Anderson. Oranges and apples (source: Ruth Hartnup on Flickr) Check out Jesse Anderson’s tutorial “Real-time systems with Spark Streaming and Kafka” at the Strata Data Conference, New York City, Sept. 25-28, 2017. Best price ends August 11. If you look up the phrase “boiling the ocean,” it’s defined as writing a post on choosing a cloud provider—there are so many different facets and use cases, and each variable complicates your choice. The key is to narrow the field to your specific situation and needs. In this article, I share some of the early ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Lauren Small. By Ben Perak, APN Global Segment Leader The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Delivery Program launched in November 2016 with one simple goal: to help customers easily identify AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with a successful track record of delivering specific AWS services and a demonstrated ability to provide expertise in a particular service or skill area. Nineteen AWS services are included in the AWS Service Delivery Program, including many database services, compute services, content delivery services, security services, serverless computing services, and analytics services. This program also highlights APN Partners ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. PGConf US, in partnership with Ohio Linux Fest, is pleased to announce that the call for papers for PGConf Local: Ohio is now open. The inaugural PGConf US Local: Ohio Conference (PGConf Ohio) will be held September 29th - 30th at the Hyatt Regency Columbus Ohio (350 North High StreetColumbus, Ohio, USA, 43215). This two day, single track conference is a perfect opportunity for users, developers, business analysts, and enthusiasts from Ohio to amplify Postgres and participate in the Postgres community. Friday, September 29, 2017: Trainings Mastering Postgres Administration: Bruce Momjian Postgres Performance and Maintenance: Joshua D. Drake  Saturday, September ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Christie Gifrin. Sam Dengler, Amazon Web Services Solutions Architect Serverless architectures allow solution builders to focus on solving challenges particular to their business, without assuming the overhead of managing infrastructure in AWS. AWS Lambda is a service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.When using Lambda in a serverless architecture, the goal should be to design tightly focused functions that do one thing and do it well. When these functions are composed to accomplish larger goals in microservice architectures, the complexity shifts from the internal components to the external communication between components ... 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 or our Developer-specific Careers page to learn more. Amazon Web Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Rendering is a highly distributed compute-intensive process with dependencies between render jobs and digital assets. The rendering pipeline is comprised of thousands of client instantiations of the same rendering process. Deadline is a pipeline manager that orchestrates this distributed job. Since the Thinkbox acquisition by Amazon Web Services (AWS), many customers have asked us how to make the rendering experience in the Cloud as simple as the one they have on premises, while still leveraging the elasticity and flexibility that it provides. While we stay committed to delivering new and improved capabilities for on-premises deployments, like dynamic ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Deriving insights from large datasets is central to nearly every industry, and life sciences is no exception. To combat the rising cost of bringing drugs to market, pharmaceutical companies are looking for ways to optimize their drug development processes. They are turning to big data analytics to better quantify the effect that their drug compounds have on different populations and to look for new clinical indications for existing drugs.A real world evidence (RWE) platform is loosely defined as an integrated set of services and products that life sciences companies use to securely acquire, store, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies collect an endless amount of data that, however abundant, often fails to paint the whole picture. According to NextGov, 74 million Medicaid records are now hosted in the AWS Cloud.The Centers for Medicaid Services (CMS) is porting in five years or more of records from 50 states—totaling 72 terabytes of data—to the cloud. In the past, this would have created a “log jam,” and likely impossible for the agency’s internal data centers. California alone produces some 900 billion records per month. By applying advanced analytics ... 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 or our Developer-specific Careers page to learn more. Amazon Web Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer ... Read More