Tag: environment

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, you can now bring your own development environment in a custom image to RStudio on Amazon SageMaker. RStudio on SageMaker is the industry’s first fully managed RStudio Workbench in cloud. You can quickly launch the familiar RStudio Integrated Development Environment (IDE), dial up and down the underlying compute resources without interrupting your work, and even switch to programming using Python on Amazon SageMaker Studio Notebooks. All your work, including code, datasets, repositories, and other artifacts are synchronized between the two environments. You can bring your current RStudio license to Amazon SageMaker at no additional charge to ... Read More

Feed: Workato. Author: Alex Lamascus; In 2013, when Forrester Research proclaimed the end of the “Age of Information” and the beginning of the “Age of the Customer,” they were still years away from a global pandemic  that would accelerate this new era of business. Yet, they pinpointed what has and will continue to define business in the 2020s: that every business decision must center around the customer. This had been brewing for some time, but when the pandemic forced businesses to come up with new digital engagement options, customers adjusted their expectations accordingly. To compete in this new world, businesses ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. It's common in the Python world to use a virtual environment for each project you work on. A virtual environment is used to avoid "pollution" of the system installation of Python; it typically contains links to or copies of the Python interpreter, links to or copies of required core libraries, scripts to activate the environment, and most importantly, the packages the project requires.When working with a virtual environment, it's activated using a command such as source /path/to/venv/bin/activate, which modifies the system and Python paths so that commands like python and pip from the virtual environment's bin directory ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Liz Martin. In 2020, the U.S. Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps embarked on a mission to become the Army’s data centric Corps. Headquartered at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the XVIII Airborne Corps—also known as the “America’s Contingency Corps” — is the Army’s strategic response force and is at the ready to deploy anywhere in the world to defend the US and its Allies. To enable their data ambitions, the XVIII Airborne Corps sought to establish the first enduring tactical cloud presence for the conventional Army and leveraged the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud to support ... Read More

Feed: MariaDB Knowledge Base Article Feed. Author: . When you start the %%IMAGE%% image, you can adjust the initialization of the MariaDB instance by passing one or more environment variables on the docker run command line. Do note that none of the variables below will have any effect if you start the container with a data directory that already contains a database: any pre-existing database will always be left untouched on container startup. From tag 10.2.38, 10.3.29, 10.4.19, 10.5.10 onwards, and all 10.6 and later tags, the MARIADB_* equivalent variables are provided. MARIADB_* variants will always be used in preference ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Customers can harness sophisticated orchestration capabilities through the open-source tool Apache Airflow. Airflow can be installed on Amazon EC2 instances or can be dockerized and deployed as a container on AWS container services. Alternatively, customers can also opt to leverage Amazon Managed Workflows for Apache Airflow (MWAA). Amazon MWAA is a fully managed service that enables customers to focus more of their efforts on high-impact activities such as programmatically authoring data pipelines and workflows, as opposed to maintaining or scaling the underlying infrastructure. Amazon MWAA offers auto-scaling capabilities where it can respond to surges in ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Mehran Najafi. By Mehran Najafi, PhD, Sr. Solutions Architect – AWSBy Michael Pelts, Sr. Solutions Architect – AWS A growing number of companies are building machine learning (ML) models using their own proprietary data, as well as external and third-party data. The trained models can be offered to external customers as a source of new revenue. Partners hosting customer-specific ML models on Amazon Web Services (AWS) have unique isolation and performance requirements and require a solution that provides a scalable, high-performance, and feature-rich ML platform. The platform should make it easy to build, ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; I am making a digital transformation during this novel work-from-home (WFH) era due to a COVID-19 quarantine. Many of you are going through the same and distractions abound while sharing a workspace with housemates, children, and pets. Moreover, we have to contend with an increased risk to cybersecurity, given recent attacks on work-related software such as Slack and Zoom.Despite exposing millions of accounts to attack, these companies provide critical infrastructure for helping millions in quarantine be productive from home. There is also an uptick in social engineering attacks that capitalize on COVID-19 related ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Louis Caron. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Secure Environment Accelerator (ASEA) landing zone helps customers deploy and operate a secure multi-account, multi-Region AWS environment. The ASEA architecture addresses central identity and access management (IAM), governance, data security, comprehensive logging, and network design and segmentation, and meets the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security’s ITSG-33 specifications (a NIST 800-53 variant). Governments in Canada and others around the world currently use the ASEA, with over 30 deployments to date. Some of these same customers are also using VMware Cloud on AWS to integrate on-premises vSphere environments, allowing ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Customers commonly use AWS Application Migration Service to migrate Active Directory joined Windows or Linux servers to Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, this process can affect the production environment during testing. For example, if you update DNS addresses during testing, clients that try to reach the original server will be redirected to the testing server. To avoid this issue, you could launch instances in a completely isolated network environment. However, this may not be an option for you if your application stack depends on other applications or services. In this post, we offer an architecture and ... Read More