Amazon EMR 6.3 now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon EMR 6.3 now supports Apache Ranger for fine-grained data access control Amazon EMR integration with Apache Ranger is now available on EMR 6.3, allowing you to define, enforce, and audit fine-grained data access control. With this feature, you can define and enforce 1/ database, table, and column level authorization policies for Apache Spark…

Ensure Optimal Application Performance with Distributed Load Testing on AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedEnsure Optimal Application Performance with Distributed Load Testing on AWS As a modern enterprise, your customers expect 100% availability of your critical web and mobile applications. Unforeseen events such as COVID-19, have necessitated many customer engagements to become virtual. This has made web and mobile applications even more critical. Distributed Load Testing on AWS…

GoDaddy’s journey to the cloud and their Standard Cloud Platform

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedGoDaddy’s journey to the cloud and their Standard Cloud Platform In this blog post, we explore GoDaddy’s journey to the cloud and their Public Cloud Portal, an application created to onboard engineering teams to AWS. GoDaddy started this journey in early 2018 when they announced their partnership with AWS. We’ll focus on how GoDaddy…

Build a scalable machine learning pipeline for ultra-high resolution medical images using Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuild a scalable machine learning pipeline for ultra-high resolution medical images using Amazon SageMaker Neural networks have proven effective at solving complex computer vision tasks such as object detection, image similarity, and classification. With the evolution of low-cost GPUs, the computational cost of building and deploying a neural network has drastically reduced. However, most…