ConexED uses Amazon QuickSight to empower its institutional partners by unifying and curating powerful insights using engagement data

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedConexED uses Amazon QuickSight to empower its institutional partners by unifying and curating powerful insights using engagement data This post was co-written with Michael Gorham, Co-Founder and CTO of ConexED. ConexED is one of the country’s fastest-growing EdTech companies designed specifically for education to enhance the student experience and elevate student success. Founded as…

Designing Netflix

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDesigning Netflix   This is a guest post by Ankit Sirmorya. Ankit is working as a Machine Learning Lead/Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Amazon and has led several machine-learning initiatives across the Amazon ecosystem. Ankit has been working on applying machine learning to solve ambiguous business problems and improve customer experience. For instance, he…

Developing a Serverless, Fully-Managed Connected Vehicle Platform with Real-Time Analytics on AWS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDeveloping a Serverless, Fully-Managed Connected Vehicle Platform with Real-Time Analytics on AWS By Sanchit Jain, Lead Solution Architect, AWS – Quantiphi Quantiphi In a recent customer engagement, Quantiphi developed a serverless, fully-managed connected vehicle platform that enabled real-time analytics on telematics data for one of the world’s leading car-as-a-service companies. This organization has 1.8…

Biggest companies using serverless in production

By Dustin Ward

Every couple of days you read about the “next big thing in [enter technology name here]” and it’s hard to tell if there’s anything behind those claims. Yet, I often suffer from a terrible affliction called FOMO — fear of missing out — which makes me spend hours upon hours testing the technology only to…

AWS ECS vs AWS LAambda

By Dustin Ward

Both Amazon ECS and AWS Lambda were launched at the same time. They are both services and they are both offered by Amazon. A more generic term for them would be “cloud services”. So what is the difference between the two? Both services serve the same purpose: to offer an environment in which you can…

Hotpatch for Apache Log4j

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedHotpatch for Apache Log4j CVE-2021-44228 has made for a busy weekend trying to patch or mitigate the vulnerability in a pervasively used open source logging platform, Apache Log4j. We recommend that those running affected applications upgrade Log4j to version 2.15 to address this vulnerability. However, this isn’t always quick, so folks from the Coretto…