Tag: Amazon

Feed: What's New. Amazon EC2 Spot now allows Amazon EBS-backed instances to be stopped in the event of interruption, instead of being terminated when capacity is no longer available at your preferred price. Spot can then fulfill your request by restarting instances from a stopped state when capacity is available within your price and time requirements. To use this new feature, choose “stop” instead of “terminate” as the interruption behavior when submitting a persistent Spot request. When you choose “stop”, Spot will shut down your instance upon interruption. The EBS root device and attached EBS volumes are saved, and their ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Today, Amazon AppStream 2.0 is introducing On-Demand fleets, a new type of fleet that can help you optimize your streaming costs. With this addition, you can now select between two different types of fleets when building your AppStream 2.0 streaming environment. With Always-On fleets, users get instant-on access to their applications, but you are charged streaming fees for all instances in the fleet, even if no users are connected. With On-Demand fleets, users experience a small delay accessing their first application. However, you are only charged streaming fees for instances when users are connected, and a small, ... Read More

Feed: All Oracle Press Releases. At a live event today, Oracle Executive Chairman of the Board and CTO Larry Ellison announced new programs that lower costs by delivering increased automation and flexibility, and enable customers to get more value from their existing Oracle software investments. The new Oracle Cloud programs include Bring Your Own License to PaaS and Universal Credits. “We are completely transforming the way all companies buy and use cloud by providing flexibility and choice,” said Ellison. “Today, we combined the lowest prices with the highest performance and more automation to deliver a lower total cost of ownership ... Read More

Feed: What's New. The included AWS Mobile Hub configuration includes a functioning Serverless backend that allows users to sign-up and sign-in using Amazon Cognito User Pools and Federated Identities including MFA support. Users can store content in Amazon S3 which is secured on a per-user basis and the starter application demonstrates how to track these in an Amazon DynamoDB table that is accessed via Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. The starter can be fully customized and React Native Higher Order Components (HOCs) are provided for developers to use in their own applications. The React Native starter kit is released ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Sharp Sight. Last week’s blog post about Amazon’s search for a location for a second headquarters left me thinking about the company’s growth. After looking at the long term growth of the stock price, it occurred to me that visualizing the stock price data would be a great example of how to create a line chart in R using ggplot2. So in this blog post, I’ll show you how to make a line chart with ggplot2, step by step. Let’s jump in. First, we’ll load several packages: we’ll load readr, which we’ll use to read in the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The deadline to implement National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-171 is fast approaching. Beginning in January 2018, you may miss out on government funding that stipulates its implementation if you have not taken action.In 2015, NIST published Special Publication (SP) 800-171 – Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations – introducing the standards for non-federal entities, such as academic institutions working under a government contract. NIST 800-171 was meant to take the security controls from a larger NIST publication, NIST 800-53, and assist non-federal ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Satish Meena. The four essentials to rock the 2017 holiday seasonWin the hearts and wallets of always-connected, deal-savvy consumers. Watch the webinar replay    On October 6, 2014, Flipkart launched Big Billion Day, an event that occurs within India’s festive season — a holiday period that accounts for 40% of the total sales of key brands in India. Now in its fourth year, Big Billion Day has expanded from a one-day event to five days. In 2014, Snapdeal launched similar sales to compete with Big Billion Day; the following year, Amazon launched its Great Indian Festive ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Nathan LeClaire. Traffic Light (source: Bertsz) Learn how to rewrite monoliths into microservices at the O’Reilly Velocity Conference, taking place in London Oct. 17-20. Use code ORM20 to save 20% on your conference pass (Gold, Silver, and Bronze passes). Microservices are small programs, each with a specific and narrow scope, that are glued together to produce what appears from the outside to be one coherent web application. This architectural style is used in contrast with a traditional "monolith" where every component and sub-routine of the application is bundled into one codebase and not separated ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Microsoft Azure. This blog post was authored by Erich Andersen, Corporate Vice President and Chief IP Counsel, Microsoft Intellectual Property.  Cloud-fueled digital transformation enables companies around the world to create new products and services, and engage with their customers at an unprecedented pace and scale. As they become digital businesses, companies need to address legal challenges which come with participating in the digital economy. Microsoft has developed strategies and assets to manage the intellectual property infringement risks that come with digital transformation. As our customers and partners become digital businesses, we are using our IP ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Big Data is amazing. It describes our everyday behavior, keeps track of the places we go, stores what we like to do and how much time we spend doing our favorite activities. Big Data is made of numbers, and I think we all agree when we say: Numbers are difficult to look at. Enter Big Data visualization. Google, Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Twitter and Netflix all ask better questions of their data – and make better business decisions – by using data visualization. It gets better: Data visualization lets you interact with data. It goes beyond analysis. Visualization brings a presentation ... Read More