Month: October 2022

AWS Operations at Next Level: How to Use AWS CloudFormation and Chef to Automate Provisioning and Configuring AWS Infrastructure Resources and Applications It is intended for SysOps administrators and solutions architects. Secure Next-Gen Applications at Cloud Scale shows how to use a DevSecOps approach for designing and building robust security controls at cloud-scale for next-generation […]

Two other high-profile companies have joined the list of customers who have committed to “all-in” with Amazon Web Services (AWS). California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), announced this week that it is migrating “all core apps” to the AWS cloud. AWS is also helping the school to create a “Digital Transformation hub,” which will be […]

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), can now connect their Microsoft Active Directory (AD), on-premises, to their Amazon Web Services (AWS), workloads. AWS announced this week a new “Standard Edition” of its AWS Directory Service Microsoft AD. It is intended for businesses with upto 5,000 employees and 30,000 directories. This release comes almost two years after […]

More than 85,000 satellite images from government agencies are now available on the Amazon Web Services Inc.’s (AWS) public data collection. The imagery is from the Landsat Project, which is a joint effort between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey. It’s described as the “world’s longest continuously acquired space-based moderately-resolution land remote sensing data collection.” […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS), has added three additional supported products to its Quick Start deployment guides library. Quick Starts are pre-configured deployment solutions that automate and streamline the process for setting up, configuring, and launching new services in AWS. Each Quick Start is built with AWS CloudFormation templates and promises to reduce the time it […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS), in preparation for its 2018 re-Invent conference, is introducing new ways that organizations can move large amounts of data to the AWS platform. These options extend the AWS Snowball Edge data transfer appliance. It was first revealed at the 2016 reInvent. SnowBall Edge allows organizations to move up to 100TB data […]

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