Category: Cloud Offerings

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Samson Max; The device you’re reading this article on has a unique identifier known as an internet protocol (IP) address. Without this numerical tag, it can’t open the Cloudwards website or other online services. While the IP enables devices to communicate, cybercriminals can use it to exploit you. Keep reading to learn what someone can do with your IP address. Key Takeaways: Your device’s IP address is analogous to a digital identity card. It helps websites, apps and other devices on a computer network identify and communicate with your device. An IP address doesn’t reveal direct information about ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Lucas de Paula. In the previous article, we demonstrated how to run CMS-HCC Risk Adjustment Models using SAS Analytics Pro on Viya. Recall that we used the SAS Studio interface to access the demographic and diagnoses input data, set up the model score code and score the input data. In this third article, we will introduce an alternative approach that surfaces the CMS-HCC Risk Adjustment Model execution through SASPy integration to a Flask application. We will demonstrate how this integration allows a user to score an individual patient/member on-demand, using inputs to an interactive web form ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Amazon customers can now use The Amazon Kendra Jira Cloud connector to index documents from Atlassian Jira. Critical information can be scattered across multiple data sources in an enterprise. Organizations use agile project management platforms such as Atlassian Jira to enable teams to collaborate to plan, track, and ship deliverables. Amazon customers can now use the Amazon Kendra Jira Cloud connector to index issues, comments, and attachments in your Jira projects, and ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Starting today, when you create a new predictive scaling policy, Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling goes back 14 days to generate capacity forecasts for the past dates, enabling you to see how predictive scaling would have scaled your Auto Scaling group. This allows you to quickly decide if the predictive scaling policy is accurate for your applications by comparing the demand and capacity forecasts against the actuals immediately after you create a predictive scaling policy. Previously, you would have had to wait at least a few days after creating the policy to build up sufficient forecast history for the ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Incident Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, announces expanded support for runbook automation to speed up incident diagnosis and resolution. AWS Systems Manager is the operations hub for your AWS applications and resources, helping you automate reactive processes to quickly diagnose and remediate operational issues. Customers can now build incident runbooks that automatically run remediation actions on the involved resources, such as turning on auto-scaling on a DynamoDB table that is approaching capacity before engaging the on-call engineer. Customers can also invoke additional runbooks directly from the Incident Manager console to help resolve the incident faster. When ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. The Amazon Chime SDK lets developers add intelligent real-time audio, video, and screen share to their web applications. The Amazon Chime SDK client libraries for iOS and Android now include video background replacement and blur, which developers can use to reduce visual distractions and help increase visual privacy for mobile users. Video is processed locally on each user’s device before it is shared into the meeting. The background can either be replaced with an image, or obscured with an adjustable strength blur effect. Users can preview and adjust how their video background is processed prior to joining a ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Connect now allows you to use Amazon Connect Customer Profiles in Asia Pacific (Seoul) AWS region. When a customer contacts your customer service department, you can now provide your agents and interactive voice response (IVR) solutions with up to date information about the customer, enabling faster and more personalized customer service. Customer Profiles brings together customer information (e.g, address, purchase history, contact history) from multiple applications such as Salesforce, Amazon S3, and ServiceNow into a unified customer profile ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Glue Visual Job APIs are now generally available, allowing customers to programmatically create, read, update, and delete AWS Glue studio visual jobs. AWS Glue Studio provides an intuitive visual interface for users to author data integration jobs. Customers want to programmatically create visual jobs in AWS Glue Studio so that they could migrate from other ETL tools and copy jobs to other environments. With the new API, customers can use the GetJob and CreateJob actions to copy AWS Glue Studio between accounts while retaining the job’s visual representation. Visual Job APIs also help customers create accelerators ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Today, we are announcing the general availability of AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) for metrics, a secure, production-ready, AWS-supported distribution of the OpenTelemetry project. With this launch, customers can use OpenTelemetry APIs and SDKs in Java, .Net, and JavaScript to collect and send metrics to Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and other monitoring destinations supported by the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP). Part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), OpenTelemetry provides open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics for application and infrastructure monitoring. With ADOT, you can instrument your applications just once ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon MQ now provides support for RabbitMQ version 3.8.30, which includes several fixes to the previously supported version, RabbitMQ 3.8.27. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ and RabbitMQ that makes it easier to set up and operate message brokers on AWS. You can reduce your operational burden by using Amazon MQ to manage the provisioning, setup, and maintenance of message brokers. Amazon MQ connects to your current applications with industry-standard APIs and protocols to help you easily migrate to AWS without having to rewrite code ... Read More