Automating Amazon Personalize solution using the AWS Step Functions Data Science SDK

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAutomating Amazon Personalize solution using the AWS Step Functions Data Science SDK Machine learning (ML)-based recommender systems aren’t a new concept across organizations such as retail, media and entertainment, and education, but developing such a system can be a resource-intensive task—from data labelling, training and inference, to scaling. You also need to…

Validate, evolve, and control schemas in Amazon MSK and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with AWS Glue Schema Registry

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedValidate, evolve, and control schemas in Amazon MSK and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams with AWS Glue Schema Registry Data streaming technologies like Apache Kafka and Amazon Kinesis Data Streams capture and distribute data generated by thousands or millions of applications, websites, or machines. These technologies serve as a highly available transport layer…

Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports using smart cards for Active Directory domain login and streaming applications

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon AppStream 2.0 now supports using smart cards for Active Directory domain login and streaming applications Amazon AppStream 2.0 now supports the use of smart cards such as Personal Identity Verification (PIV) and Common Access Card (CAC) smart cards for authentication to AppStream 2.0 streaming instances. Smart cards are also supported for…

Automating Recommendation Engine Training with Amazon Personalize and AWS Glue

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAutomating Recommendation Engine Training with Amazon Personalize and AWS Glue Customers from startups to enterprises observe increased revenue when personalizing customer interactions. Still, many companies are not yet leveraging the power of personalization, or, are relying solely on rule-based strategies. Those strategies are effort-intensive to maintain and not effective. Common reasons for…

Securing access to EMR clusters using AWS Systems Manager

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSecuring access to EMR clusters using AWS Systems Manager Organizations need to secure infrastructure when enabling access to engineers to build applications. Opening SSH inbound ports on instances to enable engineer access introduces the risk of a malicious entity running unauthorized commands. Using a Bastion host or jump server is a common…