Advancing Azure service quality with artificial intelligence: AIOps

By Dustin Ward

“In the era of big data, insights collected from cloud services running at the scale of Azure quickly exceed the attention span of humans. It’s critical to identify the right steps to maintain the highest possible quality of service based on the large volume of data collected. In applying this to Azure, we envision infusing…

Amazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon Athena adds support for Partition Projection Amazon Athena has added support for Partition Projection, a new functionality that you can use to speed up query processing of highly partitioned tables and automate partition management.

Keeping Ansible effortless with AWS Systems Manager

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedKeeping Ansible effortless with AWS Systems Manager Introduction Ansible is a powerful tool because it lets you handle many complicated tasks with minimal effort. Some time ago, I published running Ansible playbooks using Systems Manager blog when the first version of the AWS Systems Manager (SSM) document was released, which enabled support…

Spring 2020 PCI DSS report now available with 124 services in scope

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSpring 2020 PCI DSS report now available with 124 services in scope Amazon Web Services (AWS) continues to expand the scope of our PCI compliance program to support our customers’ most important workloads. We are pleased to announce that six services have been added to the scope of our Payment Card Industry…