Tag: Amazon Web Services

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; The Puppet CloudFormation Face integrates Puppet Enterprise (PE) with CloudFormation so that users can reliably create entire Puppet Enterprise “stacks” in Amazon’s EC2 from their workstation. A “stack” refers to a collection of launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) “resources” that can be specified as a “template” in CloudFormation’s declarative json modeling language. Templates support a wide range of AWS resources, including: EC2 instances, security groups, credentials, as well as a host of other resources. EC2 meta-data and user data can be associated with AWS resources in a CloudFormation template. This meta-data allows CloudFormation ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon CloudWatch Events deliver near real-time stream of system events that describe changes in Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources. By setting up simple rules to match events, CloudWatch users can route these events to one or more targets or streams. For example, users can setup a rule that automatically relays the launch event of every EC2 Spot Instance to an SNS topic to get a push notification.   The new feature allows customers to hook into the Spot request life cycle to enable custom actions or workflows when EC2 Spot Instances get fulfilled. These CloudWatch notifications will ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Last week at AWS re:Invent, students from a local Las Vegas high school and students who traveled in from the United Kingdom (UK) participated in an AWS Field Trip to get inspired and excited to pursue science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers through a day of fun, hands-on engagements with technology. AWS Field Trips are day-long sessions led by Amazon Web Services (AWS) team members that teach students about cloud technology through access to AWS Educate, Amazon’s global initiative to provide students and educators with the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. Education Dive announced George Mason University (GMU), Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), and AWS Educate earned the Higher Ed “Partnership of the Year” award for collaborating to launch a two and four-year cloud degree pathway.Education Dive, a digital publication for the education industry, gives out the annual Dive Awards to the industry’s top innovators for their efforts to shape the future of education. The award builds on momentum for AWS Educate’s Cloud Degree initiative. Governors from three U.S. states (Louisiana, Virginia, and Texas) announced that they will ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: Ray Rogers. In 2019, Grand River Hospital turned to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build the first AWS healthcare data lake in Canada. The data lake was built to house the hospital’s sensitive patient and administrative data while retiring its legacy hospital information systems, comprised of electronic patient record and other administrative systems. Grand River Hospital in Ontario, Canada is a 580-bed community hospital with a yearly operating budget of around $400 million CAD serving a community of 600,000-650,000 people. Young Lee, vice president of quality, performance, and clinical systems transformation at ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Gopal Wunnava. By Alberto Artasanchez, DBG Artificial Intelligence Lab Director at AccentureBy Raniendu Singh, Senior Data Engineer at AWSBy Gopal Wunnava, Principal Architect at AWSMore than ever, consulting projects run with lean staffs and tight deadlines. It’s imperative to quickly demonstrate value-add and results. There are many resources, vendors, and tools to assist in the creation of an enterprise data lake, but the tooling needed to measure the success of a cloud-based enterprise data lake implementations is lacking. Successful data lake implementations can serve a corporation well for years. A key to success ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Today, I’m going to tell you about a new site we launched at re:Invent, the Amazon Builders’ Library, a collection of living articles covering topics across architecture, software delivery, and operations. You get to peek under the hood of how Amazon architects, releases, and operates the software underpinning Amazon.com and AWS.Want to know how Amazon.com does what it does? This is for you. In this two-part series (the next one coming December 23), I’ll highlight some of the best architecture articles written by Amazon’s senior technical leaders and engineers. Avoiding insurmountable queue backlogs In queueing theory, the behavior of queues ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. In July, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a new contest in collaboration with SXSW EDU designed to find the best application of voice technology in education. Our challenge to the EdTech world? Tell us how you would use Alexa to transform education.From tutoring help and language learning programs to teaching guides and career planning tools – we’ve been amazed by the creativity and potential impact of the ideas EdTechs sent us. Submissions focused on challenges like how to increase student learning, improve accessibility, save educators time, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Scott Gidley, VP of Product at ZaloniData and analytics success relies on providing analysts and data end users with quick, easy access to accurate, quality data. Enterprises need a high performing and cost-efficient data architecture that supports demand for data access, while providing the data governance and management capabilities required by IT. Data management excellence, which is best achieved via a data lake on Amazon Web Services (AWS), captures and makes quality data available to analysts in a fast and cost-effective way. Zaloni is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Patient matching is a major obstacle in achieving healthcare interoperability. Mismatched patient records and inability to retrieve patient history can cause significant barriers to informed clinical decision-making and result in missed diagnoses or delayed treatments. Additionally, healthcare providers often invest in patient data deduplication, especially when the number of patient records is growing rapidly in their databases. Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have significantly improved patient safety and care coordination in recent years; however, accurate patient matching remains a challenge for many healthcare organizations.Duplicate patient records emerge for a variety of reasons, including human-generated number insertion, ... Read More