Isolating network access to your AWS Cloud9 environments

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIsolating network access to your AWS Cloud9 environments In this post, I show you how to create isolated AWS Cloud9 environments for your developers without requiring ingress (inbound) access from the internet. I also walk you through optional steps to further isolate your AWS Cloud9 environment by removing egress (outbound) access. Until…

Amazon Textract supports customer S3 buckets

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon Textract supports customer S3 buckets Amazon Textract is a fully managed machine learning service that makes it easy to extract text and data from virtually any document. Amazon Textract offers you both synchronous and asynchronous APIs to choose based on the fit for each use case. With the asynchronous APIs, you…

Why Deployment Requirements are Important When Making Architectural Choices

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedWhy Deployment Requirements are Important When Making Architectural Choices Introduction Too often, architects fall into the trap of thinking the architecture of an application is restricted to just the runtime part of the architecture. By doing this we focus on only a single customer (such as the application’s users and how they…

Running on-demand, serverless Apache Spark data processing jobs using Amazon SageMaker managed Spark containers and the Amazon SageMaker SDK

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedRunning on-demand, serverless Apache Spark data processing jobs using Amazon SageMaker managed Spark containers and the Amazon SageMaker SDK Apache Spark is a unified analytics engine for large scale, distributed data processing. Typically, businesses with Spark-based workloads on AWS use their own stack built on top of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon…