Integrating AWS CloudFormation Guard into CI/CD pipelines

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIntegrating AWS CloudFormation Guard into CI/CD pipelines In this post, we discuss and build a managed continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline that uses AWS CloudFormation Guard to automate and simplify pre-deployment compliance checks of your AWS CloudFormation templates. This enables your teams to define a single source of truth for…

Get started with Amazon Redshift cross-database queries (preview)

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedGet started with Amazon Redshift cross-database queries (preview) Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL, business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon…

Detecting playful animal behavior in videos using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedDetecting playful animal behavior in videos using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels Historically, humans have observed animal behaviors and applied them for different purposes. For example, behavioral observation is important in animal ecology, such as how often the behaviors are, when the behaviors occur, or whether there is individual difference or not. However,…

AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections. You can now use AWS Glue crawlers to infer schema of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections and create or update a table in…

Send real-time alerts about application anomalies using AWS X-Ray insights

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSend real-time alerts about application anomalies using AWS X-Ray insights Today AWS X-Ray launches support for notifications to its insights. This means that on an X-Ray group where insights are enabled, you can now configure notifications to be sent to Amazon EventBridge. Through the use of anomaly detection, AWS X-Ray helps you…

New – Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNew – Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors I recently wrote a post to announce the availability of M6g, R6g and C6g families of instances on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). These instances offer better cost-performance ratio than their x86 counterparts. They are based on AWS-designed AWS Graviton2 processors, utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse…