Category: Cloud Offerings

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Diego Lopez Yse. Do you know how your apps work? Are you aware of what tech companies are doing in the back with your data? And what’s more revealing: do you know which of your action are actually influenced by those apps? When you take a trip with Uber, buy stuff on Amazon, or watch a movie on Netflix: when are you consciously deciding and when are you being heavily influenced? Tech companies are not passively observing your behavior and acting as a consequence: they are influencing your behavior so you become ... Read More

Feed: Blog – Hazelcast. Author: Huseyin Babal. Today, we are happy to announce Hazelcast Cloud Public API support via GraphQL to provide more flexibility to automate Hazelcast Cloud clusters. If you have a Hazelcast Cloud account, you can go to GraphQL Explorer to try queries and mutations. Hands-on Examples Create Cluster In order to create a cluster in Hazelcast Cloud, you need to know: Cloud Provider Region Cluster Type Memory Hazelcast Version You can create a cluster based on the above parameters in GraphQL with the following mutation: mutation { createStarterCluster( input:{ name:"my-cluster", cloudProvider:"aws", region:"us-west-2", clusterType:SMALL, totalMemory:2, hazelcastVersion:VERSION_4_0 } ){ ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Sergey Lukyanchikov. InterSystems IRIS – the All-Purpose Universal Platform for Real-Time AI/ML Author: Sergey Lukyanchikov Challenges of real-time AI/ML computations We will start from the examples that we faced as Data Science practice at InterSystems: A “high-load” customer portal is integrated with an online recommendation system. The plan is to reconfigure promo campaigns at the level of the entire retail network (we will assume that instead of a “flat” promo campaign master there will be used a “segment-tactic” matrix). What will happen to the recommender mechanisms? What will happen to data ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. This diary-of-an-engineer post from our Citus open source engineering team was originally published on the Azure Postgres Blog. When working on the internals of Citus, an open source extension to Postgres that transforms Postgres into a distributed database, we often get to talk with customers that have interesting challenges you won’t find everywhere. Just a few months back, I encountered an analytics workload that was a really good fit for Citus. But we had one problem: the percentile calculations on their data (over 300 TB of data) could not meet their SLA of 30 seconds. To make ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R on OSM. [This article was first published on R on OSM, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.In our last post, we ran simulations on our 1,000 randomly generated return scenarios to compare the average and risk-adjusted return for satisfactory, naive, and mean-variance optimized (MVO) maximum return and maximum Sharpe ratio portfolios. We found that you can shoot for high returns or high risk-adjusted returns, but rarely both. Assuming ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. CodeCommit is a fully-managed source control service that makes it easy for companies to host secure and highly scalable private Git repositories. CodeCommit eliminates the need to operate your own source control system or worry about scaling its infrastructure. You can use CodeCommit to securely store anything from source code to binaries, and it works seamlessly with your existing Git tools.   ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Elasticsearch Service Audit Logs allows customers to log all of their user activity on their Elasticsearch clusters, including keeping a history of user authentication success and failures, logging all requests to Elasticsearch, modifications to indices, recording incoming search queries and much more. Audit Logs provides a default configuration that covers a popular set of user actions to be tracked. Administrators can further configure and fine tune the settings to meet their needs. Audit Logs is integrated with Fine Grained Access Control, allowing you the ability to log access or modification requests to sensitive documents or fields, ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. For example, marketing FAQs can be uploaded with a “marketing” tag to ensure Kendra targets marketing related FAQs, and excludes unrelated content to generate more accurate answers. To use custom tags at time of search, customers can leverage Amazon Kendra’s existing filtering capabilities, which will now apply to both documents and FAQs ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy for you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install, operate, and maintain your own Kubernetes control plane or worker nodes. Amazon EKS is certified Kubernetes conformant, so existing applications running on upstream Kubernetes are compatible with Amazon EKS. You can also easily migrate any standard Kubernetes application to EKS without needing to refactor your code.  ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. On September 17, 2020, Amazon Pinpoint announced that customers can now store up to 250 attributes across users and endpoints, which is an increase from 40. Attributes are parts of a customer record stored within Amazon Pinpoint that can be used to execute channel marketing through email, push or SMS. Attributes are key pieces of data used for targeting specific criteria, such as sending an email to all customers with a car model older than 2015. Attributes can also be used to customize a message template by adding personal preferences such as name or preferred coffee order ... Read More