How to optimize your Azure workload costs

By Dustin Ward

Managing IT costs is critical during this time of economic uncertainty. The global pandemic is challenging organizations across the globe to reinvent business strategies and make operations more effective and productive. Faster than ever, you’ll need to find ways to increase efficiencies and optimize costs across your IT organizations. When it comes to cloud cost…

How to secure your Amazon WorkSpaces for external users

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to secure your Amazon WorkSpaces for external users In response to the current shift towards a remote workforce, companies are providing greater access to corporate applications from a range of different devices. Amazon WorkSpaces is a desktop-as-a-service solution that can be used to quickly deploy cloud-based desktops to your external users,…

Redacting sensitive information with user-defined functions in Amazon Athena

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedRedacting sensitive information with user-defined functions in Amazon Athena Amazon Athena now supports user-defined functions (in Preview), a feature that enables you to write custom scalar functions and invoke them in SQL queries. Although Athena provides built-in functions, UDFs enable you to perform custom processing such as compressing and decompressing data, redacting…