Rules Engine for Azure Front Door and Azure CDN is now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Today we are announcing the general availability of the Rules Engine feature on both Azure Front Door and Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN). Rules Engine places the specific routing needs of your customers at the forefront of Azure’s global application delivery services, giving you more control in how you define and enforce what content gets…

Scheduling Jupyter notebooks on SageMaker ephemeral instances

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedScheduling Jupyter notebooks on SageMaker ephemeral instances It’s 5 PM on a Friday. You’ve spent all afternoon coding out a complex, sophisticated feature engineering strategy. It just started working on your Amazon SageMaker Studio t3.medium notebook, and all you want to do is plug this onto a massive instance, scale it out…

The Fear of Vendor Lock-in Leads to Cloud Failures

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedThe Fear of Vendor Lock-in Leads to Cloud Failures   Vendor lock-in has been an often-quoted risk since the mid-1990’s. Fear that by investing too much with one vendor, an organization reduces their options in the future. Was this a valid concern? Is it still today?   The Risk Organizations walk a…