How to add DNS filtering to your NAT instance with Squid

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to add DNS filtering to your NAT instance with Squid September 23, 2020: The squid configuration file in this blog post and associated YAML template have been updated. September 4, 2019: We’ve updated this blog post, initially published on January 26, 2016. Major changes include: support of Amazon Linux 2, no…

Automating bucketing of streaming data using Amazon Athena and AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAutomating bucketing of streaming data using Amazon Athena and AWS Lambda In today’s world, data plays a vital role in helping businesses understand and improve their processes and services to reduce cost. You can use several tools to gain insights from your data, such as Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics or open-source frameworks…

New maintenance control features

By Dustin Ward

Increase control over maintenance operations and ensure higher availability for your business-critical applications with two new features now in preview. You can now schedule host maintenance operations in addition to the already available manual updates. Additionally, we are adding the ability for you to control when guest OS image updates on Virtual Machine Scale Sets…

Achieve agility with Azure Data in a changing world

By Dustin Ward

We live in demanding times, and change is happening faster than ever before. Data has always provided important insights into changing contexts, but to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape, adding layers of intelligence where AI advances decision making and applies predictive analytics at the edge to unlock new possibilities is pivotal. At Microsoft Ignite, we…