Cyber Security Awareness: A Critical Checklist

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCyber Security Awareness: A Critical Checklist October 2020 marks the 17th year of National CyberSecurity Awareness Month, where users and organizations are encouraged to double their efforts to be aware of cybersecurity issues in all their digital dealings—and to take concrete steps to increase their privacy and security as necessary. The Cybersecurity…

Interactive Scientific Visualization on AWS with NVIDIA IndeX SDK

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedInteractive Scientific Visualization on AWS with NVIDIA IndeX SDK By Karthik Raman, Sr. HPC Specialist SA at AWS Scientific visualization is critical to understand complex phenomena modeled using high performance computing (HPC) simulations. However, it has been challenging to do this effectively due to the inability to visualize, explore, and analyze large…

Federating Amazon Redshift access from OneLogin

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedFederating Amazon Redshift access from OneLogin You can use federation to access AWS accounts using credentials from a corporate directory, utilizing open standards such as SAML, to exchange identity and security information between an identity provider (IdP) and an application. With this integration, you manage user identities to AWS resources centrally in…

New – Redis 6 Compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNew – Redis 6 Compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache After the last Redis 5.0 compatibility for Amazon ElastiCache, there has been lots of improvements to Amazon ElastiCache for Redis including upstream supports such as 5.0.6. Earlier this year, we announced Global Datastore for Redis that lets you replicate a cluster in one region…

Making cycling safer with AWS DeepLens and Amazon SageMaker object detection

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedMaking cycling safer with AWS DeepLens and Amazon SageMaker object detection According to the 2018 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Traffic Safety Facts, in 2018, there were 857 fatal bicycle and motor vehicle crashes and an additional estimated 47,000 cycling injuries in the US . While motorists often accuse cyclists of…