Tag: Security

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Nathan Taber. This post contributed by Subhrangshu Kumar Sarkar, Sr. Technical Account Manager at AWSThe Amazon ECS–optimized Amazon Machine Image (AMI) comes prepackaged with the Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) container agent, Docker, and the ecs-init service. When updates to these components are released, try to integrate them as quickly as possible. Doing so helps you maintain a safe, secure, and reliable environment for running your containers. Each release of the ECS–optimized AMI includes bug fixes and feature updates. AWS recommends refreshing your container instance fleet with the latest AMI whenever possible, rather than trying ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Stairs and brick wall (source: Pixabay) Check out the "Deep Learning models" sessions at the Artificial Intelligence Conference in San Francisco, September 4-7, 2018. One of the key findings of a survey we released earlier this year (How Companies are Putting AI to Work through Deep Learning) was that the leading reason holding companies back from incorporating deep learning was their lack of access to skilled people. One-fifth of respondents pointed to a skills gap as one of the reasons they haven’t integrated deep learning, and at the time of the survey, ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. This month we are spending some time talking about the importance of database monitoring and auditing of your database environments. Over the past year (and in some cases even longer!) we have posted many technical resources to help you monitor and audit your PostgreSQL setups and we wanted to consolidate them into one blog for you to bookmark. And make sure to join us on August 21st for our free webinar “An Introduction to Performance Monitoring for PostgreSQL” to learn how to operate PostgreSQL efficiently and running at optimal levels. Most Popular PostgreSQL Monitoring Resources A Performance ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Richard Elberger. By Johan Kraft, CEO at Percepio ABAt the last Embedded World, NXP showed a cool Smart Home demo using the new NXP OM40007 Internet of Things (IoT) kit, featuring a powerful LPC54018 microcontroller and an integrated Qualcomm Wifi module, all powered by Amazon FreeRTOS. The tiny-but-powerful board connected to AWS IoT Core, and NXP also included an Amazon Echo device providing Alexa voice control. For instance, you could ask “Alexa, what is the current temperature?” and she tells you the latest temperature reading from the NXP OM40007 board. As an embedded ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Andrew Somera. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is focused on helping APN Partners build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions on behalf of AWS customers.We launched new APN Badges in 2017 to help APN Partners highlight their partnership with AWS. These badges, in turn, help AWS customers identify and choose APN Partners by clearly showcasing the subject matter expertise offered by individual companies. Why APN Badges Matter for AWS Customers As you start to explore opportunities with our APN Partners, take special note ... Read More

Feed: What's New. CIS Benchmarks are host hardening guidelines designed to safeguard your Amazon EC2 instance by improving your security posture. The findings generated by an Inspector assessment with the CIS Benchmark rules package detail the guidance and steps needed to reduce vulnerabilities, like insecure configurations and weak password policies. With the recently released one-step setup process for Inspector, you can get started even faster than before and easily run a single security assessment with both CIS and Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVE) rules packages. For one price, you receive the information you need to both harden and patch your ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Martin Yip. Shane Baldacchino is a Solutions Architect at Amazon Web ServicesMany customers ask for guidance to migrate end-to-end solutions running in their on-premises data center to AWS. This post provides an overview of moving a common blogging platform, WordPress, running on an on-premises virtualized Microsoft Hyper-V platform to AWS, including re-pointing the DNS records associated to the website. AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS) is an agentless service that makes it easier and faster for you to migrate thousands of on-premises workloads to AWS. In November 2017, AWS added support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Nathan Taber. This post contributed by Duke Takle and Kevin Hayes at Corteva AgriscienceAt Corteva Agriscience, the agricultural division of DowDuPont, our purpose is to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. As a global business, we support a network of research stations to improve agricultural productivity around the world As analytical technology advances the volume of data, as well as the speed at which it must be processed, meeting the needs of our scientists poses unique challenges. Corteva Cloud Engineering teams are responsible for ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Kristine Colosimo; Nutanix (NASDAQ: NTNX) is an enterprise-grade software company that helps customers manage hybrid cloud environments centrally and efficiently. With over 4,000 employees, Nutanix has quickly set the standard for hyper-converged infrastructure; in 2018, Gartner named it a leader in the field. With customers ranging from the American Red Cross and BART to Texas A&M and NASDAQ itself, it’s important that Nutanix empower its employees to work as efficiently as possible to deliver on the company’s mission. But with a large app ecosystem, Nutanix needed a way to make key information and processes ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rob Caron. Now in preview Announcing the public preview of Windows Container Support in Azure App Service - Windows Server Containers in Web App are now available in public preview. Azure App Service provides pre-defined application stacks on Windows like ASP.NET or Node.js, running on IIS. The preconfigured Windows environment locks down the operating system from administrative access, software installations, changes to the global assembly cache, and so on. If your application requires more access than the preconfigured environment allows, you can deploy a custom Windows container instead. Azure App Service caches several parent images ... Read More