Tag: Amazon

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Mr. Robot is one of the more interesting shows made in the past decade, and though it has a few unexpected, and occasionally off-putting, turns, it has garnered a 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. If giving the finger to the powers that be in an even more dystopian version of our society sounds like your cup of tea, read on to find out how to watch Mr. Robot. The show follows Elliot, a cybersecurity engineer by day and hacker by night. Though his anti-social attitude leads to small issues in the workplace, Elliot faces more ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Saurabh Shrivastava. By Thooyavan Arumugam, Senior Cloud Architect at Tech MahindraBy Saurabh Shrivastava, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Vivek Raju, Manager, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSIBM Maximo is an Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) solution that helps organizations manage their assets, track operations, and perform preventive maintenance using predictive analysis and enterprise-ready features. Maximo can be deployed in an on-premises environment, as well as on a public cloud or hybrid cloud environment. As cloud computing is becoming the industry norm, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) solutions and a broad ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The Amazon Corretto Crypto Provider (ACCP), a cryptography performance improvement for Amazon Corretto, is now available. Historically, Java cryptography has been CPU-intensive resulting in slow performance and elevated operational costs. ACCP updates dozens of cryptographic algorithms, accelerating cryptographic workloads ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Initiative from the World Bank, AWS, and AGFE trains students on cloud technology and soft skillsThe World Bank, in collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS), and the Abdulla Al Ghurair Foundation for Education (AGFE), hosted the Skills for The Future Initiative (SFI) at Zayed University in Dubai on June 19th and 20th. The program introduced the next generation of technology leaders in the United Arab Emirates to the skills needed to prepare them for the jobs of the future. The two-day training bootcamp attracted students from 12 institutes who learned about the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. As a 35-year-old company with an international customer base, Intuit is widely known as the maker of Quick Books and Turbo Tax, among other software products. Its 50 million customers can access its global contact centers not just for password resets and feature explanations, but for detailed tax interpretation and advice. As you can imagine, this presents a challenge of scale.Recently, Bill Schuller, Intuit’s Contact Center Domain Architect, met with AWS’s Simon Elisha to discuss how Intuit manages its customer contact centers with AWS Connect. Using Amazon Connect, a self-service, cloud-based contact center service, Intuit has ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Brian Murray; Of the dozens of virtual private networks we’ve tested, ExpressVPN has proven itself to be one of the most reliable options. It offers solid features combined with a sleek client and high speeds, which you can read more about in our full ExpressVPN review. Since we started doing our matchup articles it has beaten every opponent it has taken on.  In this face-off, it’s up against TunnelBear, which is one of the better known VPNs. In our TunnelBear review, we found the VPN’s speeds lackluster, but the client was nice and the generous free plan ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Jean-François Gagné; This is a follow-up post in the MySQL Master Replication Crash Safety series.  In the previous posts, we explored the consequences of reducing durability on masters (different data inconsistencies after an OS crash depending on replication type) and the performance boost associated with this configuration (benchmark results done on Google Cloud Platform / GCP).  The consequences are summarised in the introduction of Part #4, and the tests are the subject of this last post.  Also in this last post, I mentioned that my results for high durability are limited by the sync latencies of GCP ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Customers have been running Windows workloads on AWS for over a decade. We run nearly 2x more Windows Server instances than the next largest cloud provider, according to an IDC report. Our experience running Windows applications has earned our customers’ trust and the number of AWS enterprise customers using Amazon EC2 for Windows Server has grown 5x since 2015. Today, we are excited to announce the AWS Microsoft Workloads Competency for APN Advanced Technology Partners, offering products based on varying phases of a customer’s journey to the AWS Cloud including migration assessment, migration, post-migration operational optimization, enhancement ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Andrew Hogan. Is your CMO considering shifting investments in marketing technology toward the services of creative agencies as Forrester recommends? You should find out — because one of two possible scenarios will play out.   The winning scenario: If you 1) boost your internal design team and better integrate brand, 2) contract with firms that apply human-centric design, and 3) apply design thinking effectively — the real thing, not the shallow variety — then your company will differentiate effectively and win.   The losing scenario: Without these three ingredients, increasing your agency spending will deliver the wrong kind of differentiation: experiences ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. As students prepare to go back to school, over 1,000 students, educators, university presidents, college administrators, superintendents, and business leaders from 43 different countries met in Seattle, Washington, to discuss the opportunities in the world of education, and how AWS can be used to create innovative solutions. The conference revolved around three core themes: building the workforce of tomorrow, innovation and transformation, and the role of machine learning in education. Read on for the major highlights from the event: NOVA brings data science courses to the USMC with AWS Educate The ... Read More