Redacting sensitive information with user-defined functions in Amazon Athena

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedRedacting sensitive information with user-defined functions in Amazon Athena Amazon Athena now supports user-defined functions (in Preview), a feature that enables you to write custom scalar functions and invoke them in SQL queries. Although Athena provides built-in functions, UDFs enable you to perform custom processing such as compressing and decompressing data, redacting…

How to secure your Amazon WorkSpaces for external users

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to secure your Amazon WorkSpaces for external users In response to the current shift towards a remote workforce, companies are providing greater access to corporate applications from a range of different devices. Amazon WorkSpaces is a desktop-as-a-service solution that can be used to quickly deploy cloud-based desktops to your external users,…

The Satellite Ear Tag that is Changing Cattle Management

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedThe Satellite Ear Tag that is Changing Cattle Management Most cattle are not raised in cities—they live on cattle stations, large open plains, and tracts of land largely unpopulated by humans. It’s hard to keep connected with the herd. Cattle don’t often carry their own mobile phones, and they don’t pay a…

Building Serverless Land: Part 2 – An auto-building static site

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding Serverless Land: Part 2 – An auto-building static site In this two-part blog series, I show how serverlessland.com is built. This is a static website that brings together all the latest blogs, videos, and training for AWS serverless. It automatically aggregates content from a number of sources. The content exists in…