The AWS Serverless Application Model CLI is now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedThe AWS Serverless Application Model CLI is now generally available The AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) is an open-source framework for building serverless applications. Built on AWS CloudFormation, AWS SAM provides shorthand syntax to declare serverless resources. During deployment, AWS SAM transforms the serverless resources into CloudFormation syntax, enabling you to…

Amazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon EBS Fast Snapshot Restore for Shared EBS Snapshots Snapshots are an integral part of Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). Snapshots allow you to create a block-level, point-in-time copy of your volumes for backup, or disaster-recovery purposes. Snapshots are incremental, only data modified since the last snapshots are copied again. You can…

Query drug adverse effects and recalls based on natural language using Amazon Comprehend Medical

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedQuery drug adverse effects and recalls based on natural language using Amazon Comprehend Medical In this post, we demonstrate how to use Amazon Comprehend Medical to extract medication names and medical conditions to monitor drug safety and adverse events. Amazon Comprehend Medical is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML)…

Using AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeStar Connections to deploy from Bitbucket

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedUsing AWS CodePipeline and AWS CodeStar Connections to deploy from Bitbucket AWS CodeStar Connections is a new feature that allows services like AWS CodePipeline to access third-party code source provider. For example, you can now seamlessly connect your Atlassian Bitbucket Cloud source repository to AWS CodePipeline. This allows you to automate  the…