Tag: Amazon

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Michał Frącek. Last week I attended a three-day Gartner Summit in London. For all those who didn’t manage a trip, I want to share with you the biggest insights I gathered from the conference and review those things that impressed me the most. Business Vibe Visualization and interaction go hand in hand in modern businesses. Regardless of industry, the vibe, energy, and atmosphere defines a brand. And at the Gartner Summit, that vibe was entertainment with a dash of class. Organizationally, the event created the ambience of a large music festival ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Jeff Becker. Haven, the recently named joint venture of Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase, has officially emerged from the shadows with a public persona, giving industry pundits new details about the company’s ambitions and intended trajectory within healthcare. Haven has struck fear in the hearts of many healthcare organizations (HCOs), in part because of Amazon’s reputation for disruption but more so because the healthcare industry in the United States is particularly vulnerable. It is unnecessarily expensive, grossly overcomplicated, and seems incapable of self-correction. Haven’s Short- And Long-Term Ambitions Haven’s early focus will be on ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Nigel Fenwick. “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door.” While Ralph Waldo Emerson may not have said these exact words, the principles remain as true as ever today. Going Beyond Improving Today’s Customer Experience If you’ve been following my blog, you may remember a post from 2016, where I introduced a simple formula to illustrate the perpetual challenge of evolving customer experiences; as expectations rise, we need to continuously evolve our experiences simply to maintain equilibrium in the market. Over time, the customer experiences from different brands begin ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; No one has to tell you that it takes money to run a business. But, not all expenses are the same. When it comes to TCO (total cost of ownership), your numbers people (not to mention the IRS) are going to categorize spending in one of two ways: CapEx or OpEx.Knowing what expenses come under what category is not only important in terms of taxation (and itemization), it makes it easier to forecast your TCO month to month and year to year. However, IT can complicate things a bit.With so many available vendor options ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon RDS now supports MySQL Community Edition minor versions 5.7.25 and 5.7.24, and MariaDB minor version 10.2.21 in all AWS regions. These new minor versions include functionality improvements and fixes. Refer the release notes for details: Get started by launching a new Amazon RDS database instance or upgrading your current instance with just a few clicks in the AWS Management Console. Learn more about upgrading your database instances from the Amazon RDS User Guide ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Previously, the Kubernetes API endpoint was accessible from outside of your VPC. Worker nodes needed to call outside of your VPC to get the correct IP addresses to connect to the API server and access to the API server was limited using security groups.Now, you can manage access to the endpoint so that all traffic to the API server stays within your VPC. This gives you an additional layer of security and control over your Kubernetes clusters managed by EKS.To learn more, visit the Amazon EKS documentation ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis improves throughput and reduces latency by leveraging more cores for processing I/O and dynamically adjusting to the workload. These improvements work best for applications that require a large number of concurrent connections to the Redis server. No client-side changes are needed. To learn more about Amazon ElastiCache’s performance initiatives and review performance test results, check out our blog. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis 5.0.3 with enhanced I/O handling is available in all AWS regions. To get started, log into the AWS Management Console ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Tim O'Reilly. Gradual steps (source: Pixabay) This post was originally published on Quartz. The pursuit of monopoly has led Silicon Valley astray. Look no further than the race between Lyft and Uber to dominate the online ride-hailing market. Both companies are gearing up for their IPOs in the next few months. Street talk has Lyft shooting for a valuation between $15 and $30 billion dollars, and Uber valued at an astonishing $120 billion dollars. Neither company is profitable; their enormous valuations are based on the premise that if a company grows big enough and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The British Columbia Automobile Association (BCAA) started the mobility revolution in B.C. over 100 years ago when a small group of British Columbians, passionate about cars and mobility, joined together to form an auto club. A century later, BCAA continues to help new generations get to where they need to go, and Evo is one way BCAA meets their changing mobility needs. Evo Car Share is Vancouver’s free-floating car sharing service offering a full fleet of 1,500 four-door, hybrid vehicles.Improving Car Location to Maximize Customer Satisfaction Convenience is the primary driver ... Read More

Feed: What's New. With this launch, you can track changes to the configuration of an API Gateway stage, such as cache cluster settings, throttle settings, access log settings, and the active deployment set on the stage. You can also track changes to the configuration of the API, such as endpoint configuration, version, protocol, and tags. By tracking changes to these resource configuration properties, you can also author change-triggered AWS Config rules for your API Gateway resources, and test your resource configurations against best practices. Get started by enabling AWS Config in your account by using the AWS Config console or ... Read More