Visualizing AWS Config data using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedVisualizing AWS Config data using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight In this guest post, Henrik André Olsen, Solutions Architect, discusses how he visualized AWS Config data in Amazon QuickSight dashboards with a high value for the Danish insurance company Topdanmark.  If you are an AWS Config user, you are probably already familiar with how to…

Using genetic algorithms on AWS for optimization problems

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedUsing genetic algorithms on AWS for optimization problems Machine learning (ML)-based solutions are capable of solving complex problems, from voice recognition to finding and identifying faces in video clips or photographs. Usually, these solutions use large amounts of training data, which results in a model that processes input data and produces numeric output that…

Node.js 14.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedNode.js 14.x runtime now available in AWS Lambda You can now develop AWS Lambda functions using the Node.js 14.x runtime. This is the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Node.js. Start using this new version today by specifying a runtime parameter value of nodejs14.x when creating or updating functions or by using the appropriate managed…

Amazon Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region Amazon Connect is now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region, increasing the number of AWS Regions where Amazon Connect is available to eight. Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use cloud contact center service that helps organizations of any size deliver superior customer service…

Using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus to monitor EC2 environments

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedUsing Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus to monitor EC2 environments We recently announced Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus (AMP) that allows you to create a fully managed, secure, Prometheus-compatible environment to ingest, query, and store Prometheus metrics. In a previous blog post from the AWS Management & Governance Blog, we explained how you could…

Azure DDoS Protection—2020 year in review

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PM Manager & Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking. 2020 was a year unlike any other. It brought major disruptions to both the physical and digital worlds, and these changes are also evident in the cyberthreat landscape. The prevalence of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks in…