Configuring autoscaling inference endpoints in Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedConfiguring autoscaling inference endpoints in Amazon SageMaker Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that provides every developer and data scientist with the ability to quickly build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models at scale. Amazon SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the ML process to make it…

Community collaboration: The S3A story

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCommunity collaboration: The S3A story Sometimes the best open source contributions involve doing less, not more. For example, Charity Majors has posited, “The best senior engineers I’ve worked with are the ones who worked the hardest not to have to write new code.” It’s not that writing new lines of code is…

Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency When we launched S3 back in 2006, I discussed its virtually unlimited capacity (“…easily store any number of blocks…”), the fact that it was designed to provide 99.99% availability, and that it offered durable storage, with data transparently stored in multiple locations. Since that launch,…

Configuring AWS VPN for UK public sector use

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedConfiguring AWS VPN for UK public sector use In this post, we explain the United Kingdom (UK) National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)’s guidance on VPN profiles configuration, and how the configuration parameters for the AWS Virtual Private Network (AWS VPN) align with the NCSC guidance. At the end of the post, there…

Incorporating security in code-reviews using Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIncorporating security in code-reviews using Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer Today, software development practices are constantly evolving to empower developers with tools to maintain a high bar of code quality. Amazon CodeGuru Reviewer offers this capability by carrying out automated code-reviews for developers, based on the trained machine learning models that can detect complex…