Tag: API

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon API Gateway now offers tag-based access control using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, allowing you to set more fine-grained access controls for all API Gateway resources. Tags are simple key-value pairs that you can define on API Gateway resources to categorize them by purpose, owner, or other criteria.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Previously, you explicitly specified encryption for every new EBS volume that was created. In order to ensure that all new volumes were encrypted, you either wrote an IAM policy to terminate an instance launch when encryption was not specified or maintained custom scripts to detect unencrypted volumes and copied the data to encrypted volumes. Now you can enable EBS Encryption by Default with a single API call per region. Once you enable EBS Encryption by Default, all newly created volumes are encrypted without having to specify encryption for each volume. This simplifies your workflow to ensure that ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon GuardDuty is a managed threat detection service that continuously monitors your AWS resources for malicious or unauthorized behavior to help you protect your AWS accounts and workloads.  Amazon GuardDuty is now SOC 1, 2, and 3 compliant, allowing you to get deep insight into the security processes and controls that protect customer data. AWS SOC (System and Organization Controls) reports are independent third-party examination reports that demonstrate how AWS achieves key compliance controls and objectives. These reports are often leveraged by diverse industries, such as technology, healthcare, banking and financial services, and used for Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, CloudWatch Logs is introducing support for percentiles on metric filters. Percentiles are particularly useful when applied to metrics that exhibit large variances. They help users understand the distribution of metric values, and can be critical to understand outliers or unusual metric behaviors. Users can visualize and alarm on p90, p95, p99, p99.9 or any other percentile. Percentiles are produced automatically. All users have to do is select what percentile they wish to use when visualizing a metric or defining an alarm threshold. As with all other CloudWatch metrics, percentile metrics can be accessed using the ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; Traffic Means BusinessYou want your company to be popular. You want to be #trending. Today, it’s a part of doing business.However, trending means traffic and traffic means a heavy load on your servers.Can your servers—your site—handle viral marketing campaigns and social media campaigns where incoming end users can spike dramatically?Can you host a live stream or media event without having to worry about slowdowns or (we shudder even thinking about it) a total systems failure?One way you can make sure that you’re ready for whatever comes your way (well, your site’s way, anyway) is ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Laura Swales. Julia Silge is joining us as one of our keynote speakers at EARL London 2019. We can’t wait to hear Julia’s full keynote, but until then she kindly answered a few questions. Julia shared with us what we can expect from her address – which will focus on how Stack Overflow uses R and their recent developer survey. Hi Julia! Tell us about the StackOverflow Developer Survey and your role at Stack Overflow The Stack Overflow Developer Survey is the largest and most comprehensive survey of people who code around the world each year. This ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Ari Lamstein. Last week the Census Bureau published a free course I created on using Choroplethr to map US Census Data. Unfortunately, a few people have reported problems when following one of the examples in the course. This post describes that issues and provides instructions for working around it. Where does the bug occur? The bug occurs in Module 2 Lesson 4, when creating this map: The code I provide to create that map can be seen here: state_choropleth(df_pop_state, num_colors = 1, zoom = c("california", "oregon", "washington"), reference_map = TRUE) Note that this map combines a standard ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: dan-sutherland; A modern data architecture (MDA) must support the next generation cognitive enterprise which is characterized by the ability to fully exploit data using exponential technologies like pervasive artificial intelligence (AI), automation, Internet of Things (IoT) and blockchain. In addition, an MDA must support a platform-centric business model that fully supports people, process and technology and is optimized around business goals.These goals are admirable but difficult. In today’s rapidly-changing landscape, it is difficult to keep up with the latest technologies – AWS alone released over 1,800 new services and ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Ilan Hertz. It has been a year since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force. Although it’s still in its infancy, GDPR is already a big consideration for organizations as they address the issues of data privacy, secure data access, and how they gather and use customer data.As a means of harmonizing data privacy laws across Europe and protecting customers’ personally identifiable information (PII), GDPR has shown that it has really got teeth. On its first day in force, complaints against Google were filed in France. By January this year, CNIL, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Using the new AWS Budgets planning features, you can easily create budgets which account for your projected growth or seasonal usage patterns. For example, as an online retailer, you could set a $3,000 monthly budget for your AWS costs which starts in February, but increases to $7,500 for November and December to account for holiday shopping before returning to $3,000 for January. You can also create a $10,000 quarterly budget which tracks your costs for your ‘Test Environment’ tag and automatically increases your budgeted amount by 10% each quarter for the coming year, in line with your ... Read More