Category: Events

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. In order for your organization to be prepared before a security event occurs, there are unique security visibility, and automation controls that AWS provides. Incident response does not only have to be reactive. With the cloud, your ability to proactively detect, react, and recover can be easier, faster, cheaper, and more effective.What is an incident? An incident is an unplanned interruption to an IT service or reduction in the quality of an IT service. Through tools such as AWS CloudTrail, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Config, and AWS Config Rules, we track, monitor, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS, through TechSoup Global, makes a grant of $2,000 in AWS Promotional Credits to eligible nonprofit organizations. Organizations can now apply these service credits toward usage fees for all AWS on-demand cloud services, as available by region for 12 months. AWS credits are not valid for Reserved Instances (RIs), Mechanical Turk, Route53 domain purchases, or support launch fees. They are valid for monthly support fees. Customers can request these service credits here.In addition to the U.S., the AWS Nonprofit Credit Program with TechSoup is now available in the following countries: Australia, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) Machine Intelligence from Cortical Networks (MICrONS) program seeks to revolutionize machine learning by better understanding the representations, transformations, and learning rules employed by the brain.We spoke with Dean Kleissas, Research Engineer working on the IARPA MICrONS Project at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), and he shared more about the project, what makes it unique, and how the team leverages serverless technology. Could you tell us about the IARPA MICrONS Project? This project partners computer scientists, neuroscientists, biologists, and other researchers from ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Karthik Thirugnanasambandam. AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to centrally manage commonly deployed IT services, achieve consistent governance, and help meet compliance requirements. AWS Service Catalog provides a standardized landscape for product provisioning. Users browse listings of products (services or applications) that they have access to, locate the product that they want to use, and launch it on their own as a provisioned product. The AWS Service Catalog API also provides programmatic control over all user actions.Let’s say you need to build an approval workflow for a launch request from a user. Many solutions ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The Prince George’s County internship program culminated with the four teams presenting their apps built on Amazon Alexa, Amazon Lex, Echo Dot, and Echo Show. The applications addressed challenges faced by some public school students, such as reading impairments and language barriers.Learn about the different challenges and solutions below: Team I – B.A.S.E (Building Amazing Students Efficiently) Challenge: Within grades K-5, some students struggle with inadequate comprehension of fundamental math skills. Solution: Using the Amazon Echo Show, this team created an interactive game that helps students learn the fundamentals of math ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ian Scofield. By Ian Scofield, Juan Villa, and Mike Ruiz GameDay is an immersive, team-based event we’ve hosted at AWS Summits and re:Invent over the past few years. The event has teams of players settling into a challenging—and hopefully entertaining—scenario as DevOps leads at Unicorn.Rentals, a popular startup minutes away from the very public launch of a widely anticipated product. For more information, see the GameDay website. Of course, we have a lot going on behind the scenes to make GameDay work. Beyond all the enthusiastic acting and silly props, you’ll find a ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Lauren Small. By Ben Perak, APN Global Segment Leader The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Delivery Program launched in November 2016 with one simple goal: to help customers easily identify AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners with a successful track record of delivering specific AWS services and a demonstrated ability to provide expertise in a particular service or skill area. Nineteen AWS services are included in the AWS Service Delivery Program, including many database services, compute services, content delivery services, security services, serverless computing services, and analytics services. This program also highlights APN Partners ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Lauren Small. By Renata Melnyk, AWS Financial Services Competency Program Manager AWS is enabling scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solutions for banking and payments, capital markets, and insurance organizations of all sizes, from startups to global enterprises. To support the seamless integration and deployment of these solutions, AWS established the Financial Services Partner Competency Program to identify AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting and Technology partners with deep industry experience to assist our customers in their migration to the AWS Cloud. AWS Financial Services Competency Partners have demonstrated industry expertise, readily implemented solutions that align ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. on 14 AUG 2017 | in Education | Permalink |  Share AWS has been working with Girls Who Code, helping support their Summer Immersion Program, a 7-week summer camp where 10-11th grade girls learn coding skills and get introduced to cloud technology. Over the summer, AWS worked with this growing population of future engineers by hosting an introduction to AWS course and workshop at four Girls Who Code summer camps in San Ramon, Washington D.C, and two New York City locations. The students were energetic and curious to learn about cloud ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. on 10 AUG 2017 | in government | Permalink |  Share AWS Marketplace now enables customers to discover and subscribe to software that supports regulated workloads through the AWS Marketplace for the AWS GovCloud (US) Region. AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated AWS Region designed to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the cloud, assisting customers who have U.S. federal, state, and local government compliance requirements. With the release of AWS Marketplace for AWS GovCloud (US), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) will be able to create custom releases for government customers that ... Read More