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Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ray Rogers. This month, many students are heading back to school. And in the United States (US), citizens are starting to head to the polls for a presidential election year. Catch up on what we covered in September on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Fix This podcast.Back to school: Higher education institutions digitally transform Campus this year may look a little different for students—many will be learning from their homes and tuning into lectures entirely remotely for the first time. Colleges and universities around the globe are using the cloud to digitally transform and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Jobin George. By Jobin George, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Michael Coughlin, Director, Global Partner Solutions at ConfluentBy Joseph Morais, AWS Evangelist, Global Partner Solutions at ConfluentThere has been tremendous adoption of Apache Kafka throughout the years, and developers are increasingly using Kafka as the foundation for their event streaming applications. Today, developers of cloud applications need access to a fully managed Apache Kafka service that frees them from operational complexities so they don’t need expertise to use the technology. Built as a cloud-native service, Confluent Cloud offers developers a serverless experience with ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Sandra Pattison; Netflix isn’t just one of the hugest streaming services on the planet, it’s also the platform that teens watch the most, with YouTube being a close second. However, although Netflix is available in 190 countries, if you try to watch Netflix while you’re at school or work, you might be blocked. In this guide, we’ll tell you why, but we’ll also tell you how to unblock Netflix at school easily. Lots of schools and workplaces block Netflix and other services on their WiFi networks for a few reasons, though it’s mainly to curb distraction. We’ll ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: AWS Public Sector Blog Team. As schools return for their academic years amid a global pandemic, many questions persist around how best to enable both teachers and students to learn remotely, including accessing materials and applications in a secure and suitable form. Similarly, staff and administrators must have a reliable system for handling confidential information. For some, the answer is found in virtual private network (VPN) connectivity and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). Streaming applications over the internet instead of having them physically installed on devices and desktops can save costs and address security concerns ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. In today’s world, data plays a vital role in helping businesses understand and improve their processes and services to reduce cost. You can use several tools to gain insights from your data, such as Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics or open-source frameworks like Structured Streaming and Apache Flink to analyze the data in real time. Alternatively, you can batch analyze the data by ingesting it into a centralized storage known as a data lake. Data lakes allow you to import any amount of data that can come in real time or batch. With Amazon Simple Storage ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rohan Kumar. We live in demanding times, and change is happening faster than ever before. Data has always provided important insights into changing contexts, but to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape, adding layers of intelligence where AI advances decision making and applies predictive analytics at the edge to unlock new possibilities is pivotal. At Microsoft Ignite, we shared a number of announcements to help organizations rebuild in a changing world. Following the announcement of Azure Arc in November 2019, we are announcing the preview launch of Azure Arc enabled data services. With this preview, customers ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Wavelength and Verizon’s 5G Edge bring the power of the world’s leading cloud closer to mobile and connected devices at the edge of the Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband network. Wavelength embeds AWS compute and storage services at the edge of communications service providers’ 5G networks while providing seamless access to cloud services running in an AWS Region. By doing so, AWS Wavelength minimizes the latency and network hops required to connect from a 5G device to an application hosted on AWS.  Among the many ultra-low latency use cases that Wavelength enables are 5G applications that deliver ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Nicole Brooks; How to Change Netflix Region or Country Your Netflix library is dependent on the region you live in. Most content is geographically locked, meaning that you can only access part of the full Netflix library of TV shows and movies. This is usually due to the contracts that Netflix has made with the owners of the content. To access content that is not available in your region, you need to trick Netflix into thinking that you’re currently residing in a different country. Netflix determines your region based on your IP address, which is used to ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon AppStream 2.0 released a self-guided workshop that enables customers to use AWS services to build and deploy the End User Computing dashboard. You can provide the dashboard to your help desk staff so that they can view details for your AppStream 2.0 fleets, monitor autoscaling activities, and manage user streaming sessions without having to access the AppStream 2.0 console. To get started, see Create End User Computing Dashboard in the Hands-On Tutorials for Amazon Web Services (AWS) ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: James Phillips. This morning, Alysa Taylor and I are welcoming the global community of technology professionals to Microsoft Ignite in two key segments streaming live and rebroadcast throughout the event.This community will play a leading role in realizing the vision and priorities we're discussing at Microsoft Ignitesolutions to help build resiliency into every layer of business and that help you weather today's challenges so you can proactively get ahead of tomorrow's opportunitiesto reimagine tomorrow. Today, we are announcing new capabilities across Microsoft Power Platform and Dynamics 365 to help deliver this vision, including:Low code ... Read More