Detect defects and augment predictions using Amazon Lookout for Vision and Amazon A2I

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDetect defects and augment predictions using Amazon Lookout for Vision and Amazon A2I With machine learning (ML), more powerful technologies have become available that can automate the task of detecting visual anomalies in a product. However, implementing such ML solutions is time-consuming and expensive because it involves managing and setting up complex infrastructure and…

Choosing Your VPC Endpoint Strategy for Amazon S3

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedChoosing Your VPC Endpoint Strategy for Amazon S3 This post was co-written with Anusha Dharmalingam, former AWS Solutions Architect. Must your Amazon Web Services (AWS) application connect to Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets, but not traverse the internet to reach public endpoints? Must the connection scale to accommodate bandwidth demands? AWS offers a…

Amazon Kendra releases WorkDocs Connector

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAmazon Kendra releases WorkDocs Connector Amazon Kendra is an intelligent search service powered by machine learning, enabling organizations to provide relevant information to customers and employees, when they need it. Starting today, AWS customers can index and search documents from Amazon WorkDocs – a fully managed, secure content creation, storage, and collaboration service.

Automate annotation of image training data with Amazon Rekognition

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAutomate annotation of image training data with Amazon Rekognition Every machine learning (ML) model demands data to train it. If your model isn’t predicting Titanic survival or iris species, then acquiring a dataset might be one of the most time-consuming parts of your model-building process—second only to data cleaning. What data cleaning looks like…

Using Cloud Fitness Functions to Drive Evolutionary Architecture

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedUsing Cloud Fitness Functions to Drive Evolutionary Architecture “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.” – often attributed to Charles Darwin One common strategy for businesses that operate in dynamic market conditions (and thus need to continuously…

Synchronize and control your Amazon Redshift clusters maintenance windows

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedSynchronize and control your Amazon Redshift clusters maintenance windows Amazon Redshift is a data warehouse that can expand to exabyte-scale. Today, tens of thousands of AWS customers (including NTT DOCOMO, Finra, and Johnson & Johnson) use Amazon Redshift to run mission-critical business intelligence dashboards, analyze real-time streaming data, and run predictive analytics jobs. Amazon…