Your guide to artificial intelligence and machine learning at re:Invent 2020

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedYour guide to artificial intelligence and machine learning at re:Invent 2020 With less than a week to re:Invent 2020, we are feeling the excitement and thrill, and looking forward to seeing you all at the world’s premier cloud learning event. As always, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) continue to be…

A deep dive into high-cardinality anomaly detection in Elasticsearch

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedA deep dive into high-cardinality anomaly detection in Elasticsearch In May 2020, we announced the general availability of real-time anomaly detection for Elasticsearch. With that release we leveraged the Random Cut Forest (RCF) algorithm to identify anomalous behaviors in the multi-dimensional data streams generated by Elasticsearch queries. We focused on aggregation first,…

New Synchronous Express Workflows for AWS Step Functions

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedNew Synchronous Express Workflows for AWS Step Functions Today, AWS is introducing Synchronous Express Workflows for AWS Step Functions. This is a new way to run Express Workflows to orchestrate AWS services at high-throughput. Developers have been using asynchronous Express Workflows since December 2019 for workloads that require higher event rates and…

AWS Security Profiles: Colm MacCárthaigh, Senior Principal Engineer

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Security Profiles: Colm MacCárthaigh, Senior Principal Engineer In the weeks leading up to re:Invent, we’ll share conversations we’ve had with people at AWS who will be presenting, and get a sneak peek at their work. How long have you been at AWS and what do you do in your current role?…

Why AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedWhy AWS loves Rust, and how we’d like to help One of the most exciting things about the Rust programming language is that it makes infrastructure incredibly boring. That’s not a bad thing, in this case. No one wants their electrical wiring to be exciting; most of us prefer the safety that…