Azure Cost Management + Billing updates – July 2020

By Dustin Ward

Whether you’re a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management + Billing comes in. We’re always looking…

Building a multilingual question and answer bot with Amazon Lex

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding a multilingual question and answer bot with Amazon Lex You can use Amazon Lex to build a question and answer chatbot. However, if you live in a non-English-speaking country or your business has global reach, you will want a multilingual bot to cater to all your users. This post describes how…

Announcing new Amazon EC2 M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAnnouncing new Amazon EC2 M6gd, C6gd, and R6gd instances powered by AWS Graviton2 processors Starting today, new general purpose Amazon EC2 M6gd, compute-optimized Amazon EC2 C6gd, and memory-optimized Amazon EC2 R6gd instances with local NVMe-based SSD block-level storage are now available. These instances are powered by AWS Graviton2 processors and deliver up to…

Building a Self-Service, Secure, & Continually Compliant Environment on AWS

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding a Self-Service, Secure, & Continually Compliant Environment on AWS Introduction If you’re an enterprise organization, especially in a highly regulated sector, you understand the struggle to innovate and drive change while maintaining your security and compliance posture. In particular, your banking customers’ expectations and needs are changing, and there is a…