Get started with Amazon Redshift cross-database queries (preview)

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedGet started with Amazon Redshift cross-database queries (preview) Amazon Redshift is a fast, scalable, secure, and fully managed cloud data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze all your data using standard SQL and your existing ETL, business intelligence (BI), and reporting tools. Tens of thousands of customers use Amazon…

Integrating AWS CloudFormation Guard into CI/CD pipelines

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIntegrating AWS CloudFormation Guard into CI/CD pipelines In this post, we discuss and build a managed continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline that uses AWS CloudFormation Guard to automate and simplify pre-deployment compliance checks of your AWS CloudFormation templates. This enables your teams to define a single source of truth for…

Send real-time alerts about application anomalies using AWS X-Ray insights

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSend real-time alerts about application anomalies using AWS X-Ray insights Today AWS X-Ray launches support for notifications to its insights. This means that on an X-Ray group where insights are enabled, you can now configure notifications to be sent to Amazon EventBridge. Through the use of anomaly detection, AWS X-Ray helps you…

AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections AWS Glue crawlers now support Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections. You can now use AWS Glue crawlers to infer schema of Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility) and MongoDB collections and create or update a table in…

Detecting playful animal behavior in videos using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedDetecting playful animal behavior in videos using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels Historically, humans have observed animal behaviors and applied them for different purposes. For example, behavioral observation is important in animal ecology, such as how often the behaviors are, when the behaviors occur, or whether there is individual difference or not. However,…

Automate AWS Firewall Manager onboarding using AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management solution

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAutomate AWS Firewall Manager onboarding using AWS Centralized WAF and VPC Security Group Management solution Many customers—especially large enterprises—run workloads across multiple AWS accounts and in multiple AWS regions. AWS Firewall Manager service, launched in April 2018, enables customers to centrally configure and manage AWS WAF rules, audit Amazon VPC security group…