Building a Serverless Outbreak Management Solution with AWS Data Lab

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuilding a Serverless Outbreak Management Solution with AWS Data Lab This post was co-written by Dhruba Mondal and Shhalu Mittal of Erickson Senior Living and Rielah De Jesus Erickson Senior Living is an owner, manager, and developer of retirement communities in the United States. We provide independent living, assisted living, and memory and skilled…

Automate feature engineering pipelines with Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAutomate feature engineering pipelines with Amazon SageMaker The process of extracting, cleaning, manipulating, and encoding data from raw sources and preparing it to be consumed by machine learning (ML) algorithms is an important, expensive, and time-consuming part of data science. Managing these data pipelines for either training or inference is a challenge for data…

AWS Shield threat landscape review: 2020 year-in-review

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS Shield threat landscape review: 2020 year-in-review AWS Shield is a managed service that protects applications that are running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) against external threats, such as bots and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Shield detects network and web application-layer volumetric events that may indicate a DDoS attack, web content scraping,…

AWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength Zones

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS customers can now self opt-in to AWS Wavelength Zones Starting today, customers can easily enable AWS Wavelength Zones themselves from the new “Settings” section of the EC2 Console or ModifyAvailabilityZoneGroup API . Once enabled, customers can create and manage resources in the Wavelength Zone using the same APIs and Management Console they use…

How Amazon Customer Service lowered Amazon Redshift costs and improved performance using RA3 nodes

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHow Amazon Customer Service lowered Amazon Redshift costs and improved performance using RA3 nodes Amazon Customer Service solves exciting and challenging customer care problems for Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retailer. In 2021, the Amazon Customer Service Technology team upgraded its dense-compute nodes (dc2.8xlarge) to the Amazon Redshift RA3 instance family (ra3.16xlarge). Moving to…