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Feed: What's New. Amazon EKS Achieves ISO and PCI Amazon Elastic Container Service For Kubernetes (EKS) now meets the criteria for ISO and PCI DSS Level 1 compliance in AMER, EMEA, and APAC.AWS has certification for compliance with ISO/IEC 27001:2013, 27017:2015, 27018:2014, and ISO/IEC 9001:2015. Learn more on our ISO compliance page. PCI DSS is a proprietary information security standard administered by the PCI Security Standards Council and applies to all entities that store, process or transmit cardholder data and/or sensitive authentication data including merchants, processors, acquirers, issuers, and service providers. Learn more on our PCI compliance page. To learn more, ... Read More

Feed: What's New. AWS will use commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon MQ active/standby message brokers available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage, during any monthly billing cycle, of at least 99.9% (the “Service Commitment”). In the event Amazon MQ does not meet the Service Commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described in the Amazon MQ Service Level Agreement. This SLA is now available in all regions where Amazon MQ is available. For more information on where Amazon MQ is available, see the AWS region table. Please visit the Amazon MQ product page to learn more ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Baiju NT. Recently, I interviewed Dejan S. Milojicic, an established researcher, technologist and former president of IEEE Computer Society, the world’s premier organization of computing professionals.Milojicic is the managing director of HP Labs’ Open Cirrus Cloud. He is also the founding editor in chief of Computing Now and an IEEE Internet Computing editorial board member. He teaches cloud management at San Jose State University, California. Milojicic received a Ph.D. from Kaiserslautern University, Germany, and has published two books, more than 120 papers, and been awarded 11 patents and 22 patent applications.Dejan S. Milojicic, an ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Alice Berg. Your face is what distinguishes you from John or Jane in the simplest form of its purpose. But as facial recognition technology keeps making strides with each passing day, people’s faces are now taking on more complex functions. Today, they are used for accessing bank accounts and even unlocking smartphones. And that’s not about it; law enforcement officers also run faces through facial scanning software to identify persons of interest in a crowd quickly and with impressive accuracy. Thus far, various tech titans have launched facial identification products to the market such ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Shu He, Sr. Product Manager – Technical at AWSFor AWS Marketplace and our customers, 2018 was a big year! We had some exciting announcements at AWS re:Invent 2018, where we launched new categories for container products and machine learning. AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog of software products that makes it easy for customers to find, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The catalog has more than 4,500 product listings from over 1,400 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and more than 200,000 active customers. With 30+ new features ... 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 to learn more. Amazon.com is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation ... Read More

Feed: What's New. With the ability to provision twice the number of instances than before, you can support more demanding workloads that require higher ingestion and query rates, and need more JVM memory to operate efficiently. You can also set up more replicas to increase redundancy and boost query throughput. In addition, you can now store a significantly larger volume of logs than before, and extend the duration for which you retain log data. To learn more, see the Amazon Elasticsearch Service Developer Guide.  Support for 200 node Amazon Elasticsearch Service clusters is available across 16 regions globally: US East ... Read More

Feed: What's New. You can now use Python scripts in AWS Glue to run small to medium-sized generic tasks that are often part of an ETL (extract, transform, and load) workflow. Previously, AWS Glue jobs were limited to those that ran in a serverless Apache Spark environment. You can now use Python shell jobs, for example, to submit SQL queries to services such as Amazon Redshift, Amazon Athena, or Amazon EMR, or run machine-learning and scientific analyses ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Bhaskar Roy; Like any technology, automation is constantly evolving. In 2018, for example, we watched the rise of robotic process automation (RPA) and the incorporation of cognitive technologies like AI. As we move into 2019, which of these trends will remain relevant—and what will be the state of automation be next January? Here are five automation trends worth keeping an eye on. 1. A stronger focus on delivering high-quality experiences quickly, not just automating away rote work. Initially, businesses saw automation as a means of eliminating repetitive, manual tasks—and this perspective still dominates today ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. In this post, we talk about designing a cloud-native data warehouse as a replacement for our legacy data warehouse built on a relational database.At the beginning of the design process, the simplest solution appeared to be a straightforward lift-and-shift migration from one relational database to another. However, we decided to step back and focus first on what we really needed out of a data warehouse. We started looking at how we could decouple our legacy Oracle database into smaller microservices, using the right tool for the right job. Our process wasn’t just about using the ... Read More