Tag: Amazon

Feed: Matillion. Author: Julie Polito; We’re excited to announce that the Facebook connector is now live in Matillion Data Loader!  Matillion Data Loader lets you effortlessly load data into Amazon Redshift, Google BigQuery, or Snowflake, at no cost and with no coding required. Many of you have been excited about the prospect of loading data from Facebook into your cloud data warehouse with just a few clicks. The Facebook connector button is now fully operational and ready for you to start loading.  Gain faster insight into Facebook ad performance With this latest adaptor, you can now load data from:  Facebook ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Fergus O'Sullivan; Welcome to the latest State of the Cloud, the monthly column from Cloudwards where we take a look at all the industry news we were able to sniff out. For the first time in the two years we’ve been doing this column, we’re doing two months in one. With this funny bug doing the rounds, we found ourselves a bit preoccupied during the past few weeks. This means that in this edition we have double the shenanigans, including tales of customer support run amuck, government crackdowns on email services and corporate rivalry with cloud gaming ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Brooke Gleason. Your students have questions and you want to get them answers quickly and easily. With the rise in remote learning and education, virtual solutions such as chatbots are one way to make information available on-demand—anywhere and anytime.Did you know that you can create a Q&A chatbot for your educational institution in less than an hour? To get started, check out the AWS Q&A Chatbot Self-Paced Guide that walks you through all the needed steps to set one up. You’ll learn how to: Deploy the chatbot in your AWS account Set up the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Sanjay Padhi, Ph.D. The rapidly changing and dynamic global health situation has impacted the lives of many people including researchers at universities and institutions worldwide. Many academic institutions are migrating to remote operations. Researchers are processing data, collaborating online, and trying to maintain labs remotely. Amazon and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are responding to these events in support of our communities and deploying resources and technology to enable remote learning and home working. Researchers can access the following to help them through this unprecedented situation: High Performance Computing (HPC) and container-based resources AWS ParallelCluster is a fully supported and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The AWS Deep Learning Containers for PyTorch and MXNet include containers for training on CPU and GPU, optimized for performance and scale on AWS. These Docker images have been tested with Amazon SageMaker, EC2, ECS, and EKS, and provide stable versions of NVIDIA CUDA, cuDNN, Intel MKL, and other required software components to provide a seamless user experience for deep learning workloads. All software components in these images are scanned for security vulnerabilities and updated or patched in accordance with AWS Security best practices.  More details can be found in the marketplace, and a list of available ... Read More

Feed: Redis Labs. Author: Pieter Cailliau. The newly announced RedisGraph 2.0 module brings a number of improvements, including increased Cypher support, full-text search, and it enables graph visualization. Just as important, however, the latest version of RedisGraph delivers significant performance improvements: with latency improvements up to 6x and throughput improvements up to 5x. Let’s take a look at those performance gains and the benchmarks used to demonstrate them. When we released RedisGraph 1.0 back in November 2018, we shared benchmark results based on the k-hop neighborhood count query. The new RedisGraph 2.0 includes new features and functionalities that support more-comprehensive ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Chime proxy phone sessions let you provide two users with a shared phone number to communicate via voice or text for up to 12 hours without revealing personal phone numbers. When users call or message the provided phone number, they are connected to the other party and their private phone numbers are replaced with the shared number in Caller ID. Personal phone numbers are not displayed, a method often called number masking. With proxy phone sessions, a food delivery service can allow a delivery driver and customer to contact each other for the duration of the ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. With the latest device software (v1.4.5) released on 3/30, AWS DeepLens now supports Python 3 as well as MxNet 1.6.0, AWS IoT GreenGrass 1.10.1, and Amazon Kinesis Video Streams 2.10. You can find the software update for your DeepLens in the AWS DeepLens console. All of your existing projects will continue to work with DeepLens. For new Python 3 projects we recommend using the latest GreenGrass Python SDK (1.5.0) when creating your AWS Lambda inference function. Visit the AWS DeepLens documentation to see how ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Until now, you could only bring your own eligible Windows Server licenses to Dedicated Hosts. Now, in addition, you can use the Windows Server AMIs provided by Amazon to run the latest versions of Windows Server on Dedicated Hosts. You can use the Windows Server AMIs via the AWS Management Console, APIs, and CLI in all AWS regions outside of China.   ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Counters make it easier to coordinate increments and decrements to column values in distributed systems, or in scenarios where increments happen rapidly. For example, you can use counters to track the number of entries in a log file or the number of times a post has been viewed on a social network. Using counters ensures that updates are serialized and multiple clients can update the same column value without overwriting each other.  For more information, see the “Counters” section under Data Types in the Amazon MCS Developer Guide.  ... Read More