Introducing WhizCards – The Last Minute Exam Guide

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIntroducing WhizCards – The Last Minute Exam Guide Thank you for the invaluable feedback on the Whizlabs online courses, practice tests, and hands-on labs. All your appreciation and reviews act as fuel for us and motivate us to bring something additional. Today, it gives us immense pleasure to introduce our new offering…

Performing simulations at scale with Amazon SageMaker Processing and R on RStudio

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedPerforming simulations at scale with Amazon SageMaker Processing and R on RStudio Statistical analysis and simulation are prevalent techniques employed in various fields, such as healthcare, life science, and financial services. The open-source statistical language R and its rich ecosystem with more than 16,000 packages has been a top choice for statisticians,…

AWS Well-Architected Framework in Serverless IV: Cost Optimization.

By Dustin Ward

This is part four of the “Well-Architected Serverless” series. In this post, we’ll talk about the Cost Optimization (COST) pillar of the Well-Architected Framework (WAF). The Cost Optimization Pillar The COST pillar concerns itself with the money you spend on your cloud infrastructure. It’s important to think about your system’s cost because, in reality, the…

Serverless at re:Invent 2020 – hot takes #1

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedServerless at re:Invent 2020 – hot takes #1 During this re:Invent, I’m sharing with you the biggest serverless-related announcements and what they mean for you in a series of hot-takes. Starting with, the biggest announcements from today’s keynote, plus a bunch of other important announcements just before r:Invent. 1. Lambda changes billing…