Using System Manager Parameter as an alias for AMI ID

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedUsing System Manager Parameter as an alias for AMI ID This post was authored by Brian Terry, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Cloud Management Tools Technical Lead. In this post, I demonstrate how you can use AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store’s, native parameter support for Amazon Machine Image (AMI) IDs while launching Amazon EC2 instances.…

New Courses List 2021 By Whizlabs

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedNew Courses List 2021 By Whizlabs Whizlab is always one step ahead of understanding the need of our learners and also in introducing the most-awaited and trending courses for the year 2021. Stop researching any further and check out Whizlabs Online Courses that you may have missed at the launch date. The blog is…

Using Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics to find broken links on your website

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedUsing Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics to find broken links on your website Most businesses and professionals build and maintain websites to bring visibility and credibility to their work. These websites often act as a medium for messaging. They shape the online perception of the business. When links on a website are broken, users get frustrated.…

Deploying IBM Mainframe z/OS on AWS with IBM ZD&T

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDeploying IBM Mainframe z/OS on AWS with IBM ZD&T By Paulo Vitor Pereira, Cloud Application Architect at AWSBy Phil de Valence, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS With an increased pace of innovation and demand for faster development and testing cycles, customers with mainframes want to adopt DevOps practices for their z/OS environments. To facilitate…

2020 in Review for AWS CloudFormation

By Dustin Ward

AWS Feed2020 in Review for AWS CloudFormation As we move into 2021, we would like to provide a recap of how AWS CloudFormation coverage changed in 2020 and offer you a look at new features. These changes lay the foundation for 2021 as we focus on registry, resource types, and resource coverage. Resource Coverage In…

PDF document pre-processing with Amazon Textract: Visuals detection and removal

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedPDF document pre-processing with Amazon Textract: Visuals detection and removal Amazon Textract is a fully managed machine learning (ML) service that automatically extracts printed text, handwriting, and other data from scanned documents that goes beyond simple optical character recognition (OCR) to identify, understand, and extract data from forms and tables. Amazon Textract can detect…