Author: Dustin Ward

AWS FeedWhat is AWS Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is counted as the most popular and preferable open-source analytics and search engine. It is preferred for a set of use cases that includes clickstream analytics, real-time application monitoring, and log analytics. Setting up and configuring the AWS Elasticsearch domain is quite easy and convenient. You will need just…

AWS FeedField Notes: Benchmarking Performance of the New M5zn, D3, and R5b Instance Types with Datadog This post was co-written with Danton Rodriguez, Product Manager at Datadog.  At re:Invent 2020, AWS announced the new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M5zn, D3, and R5b instance types. These instances are built on top of the AWS Nitro…

AWS FeedCreate a Jira issue using an AWS Config remediation action AWS Config can create issue entries in the Jira Service Management platform when it determines an AWS resource is noncompliant. In this blog post, I show you how to configure an AWS Config rule to create a Jira issue after the rule detects a…

AWS FeedEvent-based fraud detection with direct customer calls using Amazon Connect Several recent surveys show that more than 80% of consumers prefer spending with a credit card over cash. Thanks to advances in AI and machine learning (ML), credit card fraud can be detected quickly, which makes credit cards one of the safest and easiest…

AWS FeedGetting Out of Your Own Way: How to Avoid Common SaaS Pitfalls By Oded Rosenmann, SaaS Business Lead at AWS Executive leaders with deep experience in software-as-a-service (SaaS) say that, looking back, they would have done things differently to improve their company’s journey to SaaS. According to an Ernst & Young survey of 200…