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Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: tiffany jernigan (@tiffanyfayj). ← Introduction and Part 1: Amazon EBS Post by: Tiffany Jernigan and Jeremy Cowan Introduction This is the second post in a series showing how to use Docker volumes with Amazon ECS. If you are unfamiliar with Docker volumes or REX-Ray, or want to know how to use a volume plugin with ECS and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), see Part 1. In this post, you use the REX-Ray EFS plugin with Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) to persist and share data among multiple ECS tasks. To help you get ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Lana Kalashnyk. By Tony Vattathil, Solutions Architect at AWSBy Lana Kalashnyk, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBlockchain presents an open technology layer that enables business platforms to connect and scale. The decentralized architecture of a blockchain can serve as a better foundation for removing inefficiencies in globally distributed networks of value exchange within multiple industries. Let’s look at an example from trade finance, which is inherently decentralized. Trying to match centralized architecture to this decentralized process has led to data silos and other problems. By changing the structural foundation of trade finance, blockchain presents ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Bastien LeBlanc. By Jonathan Kirby, General Manager at Piksel RetailBy Michal Stypik, Technical Architect at Piksel RetailIn many retail environments, SAP Hybris Commerce is deployed into production in what could best be described as a traditional way. Hybris Commerce is implemented as a static cluster with in-place code releases, meaning that any configuration changes require files to be replaced or updated on a running server. Updates need careful release planning, downtime needs to be well managed, changes are implemented behind a holding page, and the whole process can be highly disruptive. Some organizations ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Jordan Martz, Director of Technology Solutions at AttunityBy Clive Bearman, Director of Product Marketing at AttunityBy Phil de Valence, Solutions Architect for Mainframe Modernization at AWSIt is estimated that 80 percent of the world’s corporate data resides on or originates from mainframes, according to IBM. Historically, mainframes have hosted core-business processes, applications, and data, all of which are blocked in these rigid and expensive mainframe systems. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Attunity can liberate mainframe data in real-time, enabling customers to exploit its full business value for data lakes, ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple - One source. Many perspectives.. Author: Baiju NT. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently the most widely used enterprise cloud data storage system, successfully competing against similar services from the likes of Microsoft and Google. In this article, we look at what AWS offers and outlines how enterprises can cost-effectively match their enterprise data and applications to the right AWS service. Not so long ago, the only option enterprises had for data storage was to purchase, set-up and manage ever increasing private storage server farms, but there were clear drawbacks to this scenario. First of ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) now supports the use of setgid and sticky bit special permissions on directories. This new capability allows you to further customize access permissions for shared directories across a set of file system users. When the setgid permission is set on a directory, files created in the directory belong to the group associated with the directory (instead of the group to which the user creating the file belongs). The sticky bit is used to restrict deletion and renaming of files to the owner of the file or directory or to the root user ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Mark Stephens. By Mark Stephens. Mark is a Partner Solutions Architect who focuses on M&E. The Media and Entertainment industry is made up of companies involved in the creation, production, marketing, distribution and monetization of content. We find that Media and Entertainment companies are increasingly taking advantage of the scalability, elasticity, and security of the AWS Cloud to enable their businesses in new ways. Today, I’m going to recap what’s been happening in the Media and Entertainment industry, some of the AWS services that customers in particular segments use, how APN Partners are driving ... Read More