Gain customer insights using Amazon Aurora machine learning

By Dustin Ward

In recent years, AWS customers have been running machine learning (ML) on an increasing variety of datasets and data sources. Because a large percentage of organizational data is stored in relational databases such as Amazon Aurora, there’s a common need to make this relational data available for training ML models, and to use ML models…

AWS Marketplace launches rapid data delivery for Sellers and Consulting Partners

By Dustin Ward

AWS Marketplace has launched data feeds that enable software vendors, data providers, and consulting partners to access accurate, timely insights from their AWS Marketplace business and that integrate directly with their favorite reporting and visualization tools. Independent software vendors, data providers, and consulting partners (sellers) can sell their software and data products to over 260,000…

Managing AWS Organizations accounts using AWS Config and AWS CloudFormation StackSets

By Dustin Ward

AWS Organizations enables you to consolidate multiple AWS accounts into an organization that you create and centrally manage. Organizations includes consolidated billing and account management capabilities that enable you to better meet your business’s budgetary, security, and compliance needs. As an administrator of an organization, you can create member accounts in your organization and invite…

Building a CI/CD pipeline for multi-region deployment with AWS CodePipeline

By Dustin Ward

This post discusses the benefits of and how to build an AWS CI/CD pipeline in AWS CodePipeline for multi-region deployment. The CI/CD pipeline triggers on application code changes pushed to your AWS CodeCommit repository. This automatically feeds into AWS CodeBuild for static and security analysis of the CloudFormation template. Another CodeBuild instance builds the application…

Career Path to Become Hadoop Developer

By Dustin Ward

One of the most noticeable areas that provide reliable opportunities for businesses to gather competitive advantage is Big Data. Recently, the number of online searches for big data Hadoop developer jobs has been increasing considerably. Hadoop is one of the most popular Big Data tools in the big data landscape. You can even consider it…