Build a SQL-based ETL pipeline with Apache Spark on Amazon EKS

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedBuild a SQL-based ETL pipeline with Apache Spark on Amazon EKS Today, the most successful and fastest growing companies are generally data-driven organizations. Taking advantage of data is pivotal to answering many pressing business problems; however, this can prove to be overwhelming and difficult to manage due to data’s increasing diversity, scale, and complexity.…

Data Tokenization with Amazon Athena and Protegrity

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedData Tokenization with Amazon Athena and Protegrity By Matt Hutton, VP Cloud Engineering – ProtegrityBy Tamara Astakhova, Partner Solution Architect – AWS Data security has always been an important consideration for organizations when complying with data protection regulations. When it comes to protecting sensitive data, there are a few options you can choose from.…

Digitally Optimize your Factory Issue Resolution with Amazon Virtual Andon

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedDigitally Optimize your Factory Issue Resolution with Amazon Virtual Andon As a manufacturing enterprise, maximizing your operational efficiency and optimizing output are critical in a competitive global market. Global black swan events such as COVID-19 have necessitated the ability to monitor remotely and respond to issues actively, on the factory floor. Amazon Virtual Andon…

AWS announces a new AWS Training Partner program

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS announces a new AWS Training Partner program The new AWS Training Partner (ATP) program enables AWS customers to work with a single, trusted Partner who can offer, deliver, and/or resell official AWS-authored training. All AWS Training Partners are selected based on their quality and expertise in providing training. They must continually meet or…

Why You Should Stop Hoarding Metrics

By Dustin Ward

Serverless lets you deploy applications far away in a data center of a cloud provider. This relieves you of the lion’s share of operational burdens. The more you buy into your cloud provider’s ecosystem, the less you have to do yourself: no more OS updates or database bugfix installations.  But you still need to do some operation-related work on…