Enable remote work faster with new Windows Virtual Desktop capabilities

By Dustin Ward

In the past few months, there has been a dramatic and rapid shift in the speed at which organizations of all sizes have enabled remote work amidst the global health crisis. Companies examining priorities and shifting resources with agility can help their employees stay connected from new locations and devices, allowing for business continuity essential…

Serverless File Uploads using S3 and Lambda

By Dustin Ward

The serverless approach allows your application to use a presigned URL and upload directly to Amazon S3. This offloads all the bandwidth and compute requirements away from your application, and instead relies on the massive scalability of S3. This walkthrough shows how to implement an uploading solution for a broader application. You can use this…

Serverless Speech-to-Text using S3 and Lambda

By Dustin Ward

See how you can use bring automated speech-to-text into your applications with minimal code. This solution uses Amazon Transcribe to automatically convert mp4 audio clips into text. This type of serverless application can analyze customer support calls, for example, and create a sentiment analysis using Amazon Comprehend. The walkthrough application takes the transcribed text and…

Serverless Workflows using S3 and Lambda

By Dustin Ward

AWS Step Functions allows to represent complex business logic flows in your application without using custom code. You can trigger Step Functions workflows from S3 events, enabling you to build scalable state machine easily. This design can be used for all sorts of practical business use-cases. For example, saving a signed customer contract from an…

Serverless Automated Translation Using S3 and Lambda

By Dustin Ward

Learn how you can use bring automated natural language translation into your applications with minimal code. This solution uses Amazon Translate to automatically convert between dozens of different languages. This can be useful for many applications. In this walkthrough, you’ll see how to implement a automated and scalable translation process for assets stored in an…