Detect defects and augment predictions using Amazon Lookout for Vision and Amazon A2I

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDetect defects and augment predictions using Amazon Lookout for Vision and Amazon A2I With machine learning (ML), more powerful technologies have become available that can automate the task of detecting visual anomalies in a product. However, implementing such ML solutions is time-consuming and expensive because it involves managing and setting up complex infrastructure and…

Choosing Your VPC Endpoint Strategy for Amazon S3

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedChoosing Your VPC Endpoint Strategy for Amazon S3 This post was co-written with Anusha Dharmalingam, former AWS Solutions Architect. Must your Amazon Web Services (AWS) application connect to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets, but not traverse the internet to reach public endpoints? Must the connection scale to accommodate bandwidth demands? AWS offers a…

Amazon Kendra releases WorkDocs Connector

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon Kendra releases WorkDocs Connector Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can index and search documents from Amazon WorkDocs – a fully managed, secure content creation, storage, and collaboration service.

Can we solve serverless cold starts?

By Dustin Ward

As everything good in life, serverless also comes with its downsides. One of them is the infamous “cold start”. In this article, we’ll cover what they are, what influences serverless startup latency, and how to mitigate its impacts in our applications. What is a cold start? Cold start refers to the state our function when…

Automate annotation of image training data with Amazon Rekognition

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAutomate annotation of image training data with Amazon Rekognition Every machine learning (ML) model demands data to train it. If your model isn’t predicting Titanic survival or iris species, then acquiring a dataset might be one of the most time-consuming parts of your model-building process—second only to data cleaning. What data cleaning looks like…

Using Cloud Fitness Functions to Drive Evolutionary Architecture

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedUsing Cloud Fitness Functions to Drive Evolutionary Architecture “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” – often attributed to Charles Darwin One common strategy for businesses that operate in dynamic market conditions (and thus need to continuously…