AI for AgriTech: Classifying Kiwifruits using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAI for AgriTech: Classifying Kiwifruits using Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that is gaining in popularity and interest largely due to increased access to affordable cloud-based training compute, more performant algorithms, and optimizations for scalable model deployment and inference. However, despite these advances in individual AI…

Amazon Comprehend now identifies documents that contain personally identifiable information (PII)

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon Comprehend now identifies documents that contain personally identifiable information (PII) Amazon Comprehend now supports identification of text documents that contain personally identifiable information (PII). You can use Amazon Comprehend’s Contains PII API synchronously to discover documents that contain PII, to set up alarms and control access on documents with sensitive information. Amazon Comprehend’s…

Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 17th, 2021

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedStuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 17th, 2021 Hey, HighScalability is here again!   Reverse engineering an ancient analog computer is a detective story worth reading. A Model of the Cosmos in the ancient Greek Antikythera Mechanism.   Do you love this Stuff? Without your encouragement on Patreon this Stuff won’t stuffin’ stuff.   …

Deploying a highly available Microsoft SQL Server on Linux on AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDeploying a highly available Microsoft SQL Server on Linux on AWS In this post, we walk through how to successfully design and build a highly available Microsoft SQL Server on Linux on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This post provides high-level insight into the components necessary to create this solution, including Microsoft SQL on Linux,…

Building an image searching solution with the AWS CDK

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuilding an image searching solution with the AWS CDK This post is written by Mohsen Damshenas, Partner Solutions Architect, Global System Integrators. This post explains a fully serverless solution for searching images based on their content. This solution enables images uploading to Amazon S3 and image analysis with Amazon Rekognition. It supports database access…