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…

Principles of a Cloud Migration – Security, The W5H – Episode WHAT?

By Dustin Ward

Teaching you to be a Natural Born Pillar! Last week, we took you through the “WHO” of securing a cloud migration here, detailing each of the roles involved with implementing a successful security practice during a cloud migration. Read: everyone. This week, I will be touching on the “WHAT” of security; the key principles required…