Migrating your Netezza data warehouse to Amazon Redshift

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedMigrating your Netezza data warehouse to Amazon Redshift With IBM announcing Netezza reaching end-of-life, you’re faced with the prospect of having to migrate your data and workloads off your analytics appliance. For some, this presents an opportunity to transition to the cloud. Enter Amazon Redshift. Amazon Redshift is a cloud-native data warehouse…

Principles of a Cloud Migration – Security W5H – The HOW

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedPrinciples of a Cloud Migration – Security W5H – The HOW “How about… ya!” Security needs to be treated much like DevOps in evolving organizations; everyone in the company has a responsibility to make sure it is implemented. It is not just a part of operations, but a cultural shift in doing…

Simplifying application orchestration with AWS Step Functions and AWS SAM

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSimplifying application orchestration with AWS Step Functions and AWS SAM Modern software applications consist of multiple components distributed across many services. AWS Step Functions lets you define serverless workflows to orchestrate these services so you can build and update your apps quickly. Step Functions manages its own state and retries when there…

Train ALBERT for natural language processing with TensorFlow on Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedTrain ALBERT for natural language processing with TensorFlow on Amazon SageMaker At re:Invent 2019, AWS shared the fastest training times on the cloud for two popular machine learning (ML) models: BERT (natural language processing) and Mask-RCNN (object detection). To train BERT in 1 hour, we efficiently scaled out to 2,048 NVIDIA V100 GPUs by…