Tag: EC2

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. When we first looked into the possibility of building a cloud-based data warehouse many years ago, we were struck by the fact that our customers were storing ever-increasing amounts of data, and yet only a small fraction of that data ever made it into a data warehouse or Hadoop system for analysis. We saw that this wasn’t just a cloud-specific anomaly. It was also true in the broader industry, where the growth rate of the enterprise storage market segment greatly surpassed that of the data warehousing market segment.We dubbed this the “dark data” problem. Our ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop – Cloudera Engineering Blog. Author: Justin Kestelyn. I’ve always held a strong bias that education is most effective when the student learns by doing. As a developer of technical curricula, my goal is to have training participants engage with real and relevant problems as much as possible through hands-on exercises. The high rate at which Apache Hadoop is changing, both as a technology and as an ecosystem, makes developing Cloudera training courses not only demanding but also seriously fun and rewarding. I recently undertook the challenge of upgrading the Cloudera Administrator Training for Apache Hadoop. I more than ... Read More

Feed: What's New. X1 Instances are designed for running large-scale, in-memory applications and in-memory databases in the AWS cloud. Offering up to 1,952 GiB of memory and 128 vCPUs, X1 instances are ideal for running in-memory databases like SAP HANA, big data processing engines like Apache Spark or Presto, and high performance computing (HPC) applications. X1 instances are certified by SAP to run production environments of the next-generation Business Suite S/4HANA, Business Suite on HANA (SoH), Business Warehouse on HANA (BW), and Data Mart Solutions on HANA on the AWS Cloud.  Amazon EC2 X1 instances are also available in US ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon EFS provides simple, scalable file storage for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud. Amazon EFS is easy to use and offers a simple interface that allows you to create and configure file systems quickly and easily. With Amazon EFS, storage capacity is elastic, growing and shrinking automatically as you add and remove files, so your applications have the storage they need, when they need it.  Amazon EFS is designed for high availability and durability, and provides performance for a broad spectrum of workloads and applications, including Big Data and analytics, media processing workflows, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Barbara Kessler. Continuing our MSP Partner Spotlight series from last week’s post, Unlocking Hybrid Architecture’s Potential with DevOps, automation is another critical area of capability for next generation Managed Service Providers (MSPs). Automation incorporating elements such as configuration templates, code deployment automation, and self-healing infrastructure reduces the need for manual interventions, the potential for errors, and the operating costs for MSPs.  This week we hear from Cloudreach (APN Premier and MSP Partner, with numerous AWS Competencies) and their perspective on the value of automation in the cloud. Automation in the Cloud By: Neil ... Read More

Feed: IDERA Community Blog; Author: Levi Brereton; Are you using MySQL database in your application? You can use IDERA Uptime Cloud Monitor (UCM) to monitor your MySQL database performance. As an illustration, you can configure and receive alerts for the following scenarios:Performance: alert if the MySQL performance is poor. If the slow_queries value is significantly above its normal range, that would imply that the MySQL server is under heavy load. Bytes_received and bytes_written values track the read-write performance of the MySQL database. Prerequisites Uptime Cloud Monitor from IDERA offers a SAAS based out-of-the-box solution for monitoring MySQL Database instance for availability ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. From introductory material to in-depth architectures, the AWS Public Sector Summit featured sessions relevant to healthcare and life science researchers.The full set of session videos are located here, along with slides to match, but in this post, we will recap healthcare and life sciences sessions with a focus on our customers, such as the American Heart Association, the NIH National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Marrow Donor Program, and how they use the AWS Cloud to unlock the value of data and share insights. Harmonize, Search, Analyze, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Peter Williams. Learn now Financial Services partners like IHS Markit are using AWS to address financial regulatory requirements for financial risk management. FRTB Regulation New Basel financial risk regulations released in 2016 are transforming global bank risk systems. In January 2016, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) standards, which introduced a new approach to evaluating risk across asset holdings, and will be mandated by 2020. The FRTB regulation establishes a new expected shortfall (ES) measurement of risk under stress, which replaces previous value-at-risk (VaR) based models ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Many customers have taken advantage of the numerous benefits of running Apache HBase on Amazon S3 for data storage, including lower costs, data durability, and easier scalability. Customers such as FINRA have lowered their costs by 60% by moving to an HBase on S3 architecture along with the numerous operational benefits that come with decoupling storage from compute and using S3 as the storage layer. HBase on S3 allows you to turn on a cluster and immediately start querying against data within S3 rather than having to go through a lengthy snapshot restore process.With the ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. Good news! Teradata IntelliCloud has been upgraded with three new capabilities that are important to customers: International expansion to AWS Ireland – first AWS region outside of the United States for IntelliCloud (benefit = broader footprint) Customer Application Ecosystem – support for customer-supplied BI/DI apps within the Teradata data center in Las Vegas (benefit = reduced latency) Database software tiers – now Base and Advanced for IntelliBase and AWS …and Enterprise for IntelliFlex and AWS (benefit = greater choice) What Is IntelliCloud? In case you don’t already know, IntelliCloud is our highly ... Read More