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Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; A few of us were sitting around the Puppet office in Portland one rainy afternoon, pondering the imponderables."What is it about packaging systems that make every one of them so terrible?""If tuna salad and Cobb salad are both salads, doesn't that mean literally any combination of ingredients can be considered a salad?""How many sites are out there using Puppet these days, anyway?"Some things will remain a mystery, but the last one, it turns out, we can use science to answer. Thus was born the 2018 Puppet User Survey, which is open for respondents ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Cloud Map is a cloud resource discovery service. Using AWS Cloud Map, you can define custom names for your application resources, such as Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon EC2 instances, Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon SQS queues, or any other cloud resource. Your application can then use the AWS SDK or authenticated API queries to discover the location and metadata of cloud resources associated with these custom names. AWS Cloud Map is a highly available, managed service with rapid change propagation. For the full list of regions where AWS Cloud Map is available, see the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. The AWS Cost & Usage Report (CUR) tracks your AWS usage and provides estimated charges associated with that usage. You can configure this report to present the data at hourly or daily intervals, and it is updated at least one time per day until it is finalized at the end of the billing period. The Cost & Usage Report is delivered automatically to an Amazon S3 bucket that you specify, and you can download it from there directly. You can also integrate the report into Amazon Redshift, query it with Amazon Athena, or upload it ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. You can create an export with just a few clicks on the Amazon RDS Management Console or using the AWS SDK or CLI. Extracting data from a snapshot doesn’t impact the performance of your database, as the export operation is performed on your snapshot and not your database. The extracted data in Apache Parquet format is portable, so you can consume it with query services such as Amazon Athena or big data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark. For more information, including instructions on getting started, read the Aurora documentation or Amazon RDS documentation. Amazon RDS Snapshot ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: John McGrath. Participants and volunteers at the re:Invent 2019 Code Green workshop and hackathon. At the 2019 re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Amazon Sustainability and the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) hosted a four-hour workshop and hackathon to showcase ASDI’s collection of sustainability-related datasets and new ways to put those datasets to use. Called “Code Green,” the event also introduced conference attendees and participants to geospatial weather and climate data on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Participants walked through the creation of an app designed to select the most sustainable location for an ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; For both open source and Puppet Enterprise users, you’ll see other improvements, including the ability to manage load balancers by region:elb_loadbalancer { 'name-of-load-balancer': ensure => present, region => 'us-east-1', Availability_zones => ['us-east-1a', 'us-east-1b'], instances => ['name-of-instance', 'another-instance'], security_groups => ['name-of-security-group'], ...We’ve also added support for the AWS SDK v3, which enables developers to build applications using AWS services like Amazon S3, DynamoDB and Glacier. Release 2.1.0 also adds region support for GovCloud, the isolated AWS region for customers looking to host sensitive workloads.Finally, we’re proud to announce that we’ve added Japanese language support ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Tom Tasker. By Tom Tasker, EMEA Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSMicrosoft SQL (MSSQL) is an enterprise-level database application used by some of the world’s largest companies. With business-critical data housed in MSSQL databases, high availability (HA) and disaster recovery (DR) are essential features of any MSSQL deployment that businesses have to architect for. With Amazon Web Services (AWS), server resources for large MSSQL deployments can be taken out of the data center and run on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. The ability to boot these instances in minutes provides ease ... Read More

Feed: MemSQL Blog. Author: Rick Negrin. There is a trend in industry which says that modern applications need to be built on top of one or more special-purpose databases. That every application benefits from using the best-of-breed technology for each requirement. And that the plethora of special-purpose options available from certain cloud providers is reasonable to manage. That’s all BUNK. The reality is that navigating the choices, figuring out how to use them effectively, and dealing with the ETL and inevitable data sprawl, is so difficult that the pain far outweighs any technical advantage you might get. In the vast ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. AWS re:Invent 2019 was a whirlwind of activity, especially in the Expo Hall, where the AWS team spent four days filming 12 live This is My Architecture videos for Twitch. Watch one a day for the next two weeks…or eat them all in one sitting. Whichever you do, you’re guaranteed to learn something new.Accolade Discover security and operational excellence in healthcare with Accolade. AWS Solution Builders Get multi-region Availability with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon S3, and Amazon Cognito. EcoFit EcoFit offers responsive, AWS Lambda-based microservices at scale. Splunk Splunk explains data at scale by decoupling compute and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Many AWS customers use a multi-account strategy. A centralized AWS Glue Data Catalog is important to minimize the amount of administration related to sharing metadata across different accounts. This post introduces capability that allows Amazon Athena to query a centralized Data Catalog across different AWS accounts.Overview of solution In late 2019, AWS introduced the ability to Connect Amazon Athena to your Apache Hive Metastore. Using this functionality, you can also configure Athena to point to a Data Catalog in a different account. The Hive Metastore functionality uses an AWS Lambda function to federate queries to ... Read More