Create Snapshots From Any Block Storage Using EBS Direct APIs

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCreate Snapshots From Any Block Storage Using EBS Direct APIs I am excited to announce you can now create Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) snapshots from any block storage data, such as on-premises volumes, volumes from another cloud provider, existing block data stored on Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), or even your…

Detecting and analyzing incorrect model predictions with Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor and Debugger

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedDetecting and analyzing incorrect model predictions with Amazon SageMaker Model Monitor and Debugger Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) achieve state-of-the-art results in tasks such as image classification and object detection. They are used in many diverse applications, such as in autonomous driving to detect traffic signs and objects on the street, in healthcare…

Cloud Mentoring

By Dustin Ward

The cloud can be fast paced at times with new information being released daily and it can be hard to keep up if you are just getting started. I am offering time to speak with you about your cloud career aspirations. If you are interested, please use the form below to connect with me and…

Executing Ansible playbooks in your Amazon EC2 Image Builder pipeline

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedExecuting Ansible playbooks in your Amazon EC2 Image Builder pipeline This post is contributed by Andrew Pearce – Sr. Systems Dev Engineer, AWS Since launching Amazon EC2 Image Builder, many customers say they want to re-use existing investments in configuration management technologies (such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet) with Image Builder pipelines.…

Updates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the AWS Well-Architected Tool

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedUpdates to the AWS Well-Architected Framework and the AWS Well-Architected Tool The latest update to the AWS Well-Architected Framework is now available and reflects the latest best practice guidance for designing and deploying cloud workloads. An integral part of the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool), the AWS Well-Architected Framework has been…