A Guide to Kubernetes Certifications

By Dustin Ward

One of the significant advancements in recent times is the container technology. As an IT professional, if you have worked with Docker, then you must know about the role of Kubernetes. Kubernetes certifications can help you find new opportunities for your career in application development. Since the integration of all Docker operations with Kubernetes in 2017,…

DCsv2-series VM now generally available from Azure confidential computing

By Dustin Ward

Security and privacy are critically important when storing and processing sensitive information in the cloud, from payment transactions, to financial records, personal health data, and more. With the general availability of DCsv2-series VMs, we are ushering in the start of a new level of data protection in Azure. With more workloads moving to the cloud…

AWS IQ waives fees until June 30, 2020

By Dustin Ward

AWS IQ is waiving both the 3% buyer fee and 15% expert fee from April 16, 2020 to June 30, 2020. AWS IQ is waiving these fees to support you in setting up and scaling remote work initiatives, and to support the highly skilled consultants who provide their services. from Recent Announcements: https://ift.tt/351RYxI The post…

Amazon CloudFront in China announces support for Origin Access Identity

By Dustin Ward

Amazon CloudFront in China announces support for Origin Access Identity (OAI). By using OAI, you can restrict your viewers from accessing content from your Amazon S3 buckets directly by requiring them to retrieve the content through Amazon CloudFront’s distributed edge network in China. To learn more about OAI with Amazon CloudFront in China, read CloudFront’s…

Scaling your AI-powered Battlesnake with distributed reinforcement learning in Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

Battlesnake is an AI competition in which you build AI-powered snakes. Battlesnake’s rules are similar to the traditional snakes game. Your goal is to be the last surviving snake when competing against other snakes. Developers of all levels build snakes using techniques ranging from unique heuristic-based strategies to state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms. You…