Category: Events

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. ServerCentral Turing Group (SCTG), an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Consulting Partner, recently held a self-driving car challenge open to all employees. After the 2018 acquisition of Turing Group by ServerCentral, the AWS Public Sector Partner aimed to use the competition to unite the two legacy companies, while also building expertise across AWS services. Over 30 employees were split into two cross-functional teams that met for weekly to build and train self-driving cars in preparation for the final race competition, where the winner is determined based on course accuracy and speed. Through ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Each year since 1978, thousands of financial services executives and thought leaders gather at Sibos, the largest industry conference focused on emerging technology trends. Sibos will take place September 23-26, 2019, moving to London for the first time, in honor of the city’s central role in the global financial services ecosystem.In the spirit of the conference theme, “thriving in a hyper-connected world,” Amazon Web Services (AWS) will join Sibos to help attendees differentiate technologies that drive long-term business value from short-lived trends, and discover growth opportunities from new platforms and operating ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Henry Axelrod. By Henry Axelrod, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBeing able to access files via standard file protocols from one or more locations is important to many organizations. In this post, I will explore how Nasuni’s solution allows customers to access files across many locations through the use of a physical or virtual appliance. You can run these appliances in a data center or the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. Nasuni is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner with the AWS Storage Competency. With industry-leading encryption, local performance, and pay-as-you-go pricing, Nasuni ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. As communities around the world grow, traffic congestion problems increase. Cities and states in addition to regional authorities face decisions around how to modernize, maintain, and budget for upgrades to their transportation network to improve the quality of life and safety of their residents.Congestion itself is not the problem, but rather a sign of a city’s prosperity. Economic growth, job creation, and increased mobility are outcomes of a healthy city, state, or region. So as congestion becomes a way of life, how do transportation officials prioritize decisions and measure the results ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. (© Photo by Jakub Mosur) Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a consortium of Bay Area community colleges along with their K12 and California State University partners, launched a regional initiative to prepare students for jobs in one of the fastest-growing, and highest-paying, areas in the technology field: cloud computing. The schools include City College of San Francisco, Canada College, De Anza College, Evergreen Valley College, Foothill College, Las Positas College, College of San Mateo, Mission College, SIATech High Schools and Skyline College. The consortium will launch a multi-course curriculum, complete with ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By David Westrom, VP of Business Development at MachineMetricsBy Graham Immerman, Director of Marketing at MachineMetricsThe Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) space is hot right now, as manufacturing represents perhaps the largest greenfield opportunity left for digitization. Yet, IoT platform implementations have historically had a high rate of failure within this vertical. What’s contributing to these failure rates, and what needs to change? In this post, we examine common approaches for enabling Industrial IoT initiatives, the pros and cons, and their culpability for the high failure rate. We then introduce a ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Your workloads have different characteristics and may have evolved over time, making it challenging to support them with high-performing, scalable and low-cost computing. That’s why we’ve added new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances that come with the latest processor technology, to help you optimize your workloads even more and save.Upgrade to new general purpose M5 and memory-optimized R5 instances The general purpose (M5) and memory optimized (R5) instance families of Amazon EC2 now have easy upgrade options. New! General purpose M5 instances. General purpose computing workloads benefit from a balance of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Randy Chou, CEO at Nubeva TechnologiesBy Miguel Cervantes, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy James Wenzel, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS) has added a new feature to Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) called traffic mirroring. You can think of Amazon VPC traffic mirroring as a virtual network tap that gives you direct access to the network packets flowing through your Amazon VPC. Customers rely on network tapping and mirroring functions for testing, troubleshooting, network analysis, security, and compliance requirements, to name a few. They are already taking ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS EdStart members are pushing the limits in education by creating products and solutions to improve school administration. In honor of back to school season, we are featuring companies who are using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build solutions that help educational institutions improve operations.Read on to learn about these AWS EdStart EdTechs: Hive Digital Minds Hive Digital Minds was created to help school leaders with their communication and parent engagement strategies. Their core product SchoolBzz is a software as a service (SaaS) platform that simplifies how information is shared with families ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. For decades, public sector organizations have relied on large, legacy, mainframe solutions to reliably process high volumes of secure transactions. But now, Amazon Web Services (AWS) can help modernize your mainframe environment while helping reduce your budget and improve your analytics capabilities.Legacy systems in the public sector Mainframes have been around since the 1950s and remained a prominent element of many data centers in state and local government, defense organizations, and federal agencies due to performance, durability, and security. Mainframe solutions are essentially a fully integrated data center with hardware, software, ... Read More