Meet the latest AWS Heroes – November 2021

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedMeet the latest AWS Heroes – November 2021 It is an exciting time of year, with AWS re:Invent right around the corner. As we reflect back on 2021, we continue to be impressed by the way AWS communities support one-another across intersecting journeys to expand technical skills. At the center of these communities are…

Managing temporary elevated access to your AWS environment

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedManaging temporary elevated access to your AWS environment In this post you’ll learn about temporary elevated access and how it can mitigate risks relating to human access to your AWS environment. You’ll also be able to download a minimal reference implementation and use it as a starting point to build a temporary elevated access…

Automatically detect sports highlights in video with Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAutomatically detect sports highlights in video with Amazon SageMaker Extracting highlights from a video is a time-consuming and complex process. In this post, we provide a new take on instant replay for sporting events using a machine learning (ML) solution for automatically creating video highlights from original video content. Video highlights are then available…

Monitor operational metrics for your Amazon Lex chatbot

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedMonitor operational metrics for your Amazon Lex chatbot Chatbots are increasingly becoming an important channel for companies to interact with their customers, employees, and partners. Amazon Lex allows you to build conversational interfaces into any application using voice and text. Amazon Lex V2 console and APIs make it easier to build, deploy, and manage bots…

Disaster Recovery with AWS Managed Services, Part I: Single Region

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDisaster Recovery with AWS Managed Services, Part I: Single Region This 3-part blog series discusses disaster recovery (DR) strategies that you can implement to ensure your data is safe and that your workload stays available during a disaster. In Part I, we’ll discuss the single AWS Region/multi-Availability Zone (AZ) DR strategy. The strategy outlined…