Performing simulations at scale with Amazon SageMaker Processing and R on RStudio

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedPerforming simulations at scale with Amazon SageMaker Processing and R on RStudio Statistical analysis and simulation are prevalent techniques employed in various fields, such as healthcare, life science, and financial services. The open-source statistical language R and its rich ecosystem with more than 16,000 packages has been a top choice for statisticians,…

AWS Well-Architected Framework in Serverless IV: Cost Optimization.

By Dustin Ward

This is part four of the “Well-Architected Serverless” series. In this post, we’ll talk about the Cost Optimization (COST) pillar of the Well-Architected Framework (WAF). The Cost Optimization Pillar The COST pillar concerns itself with the money you spend on your cloud infrastructure. It’s important to think about your system’s cost because, in reality, the…

Serverless at re:Invent 2020 – hot takes #1

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedServerless at re:Invent 2020 – hot takes #1 During this re:Invent, I’m sharing with you the biggest serverless-related announcements and what they mean for you in a series of hot-takes. Starting with, the biggest announcements from today’s keynote, plus a bunch of other important announcements just before r:Invent. 1. Lambda changes billing…

Manage your Amazon EC2 macOS instances with AWS Systems Manager

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedManage your Amazon EC2 macOS instances with AWS Systems Manager Are you using macOS for developing, building, testing, and signing applications for Apple devices? To all the thriving community of millions of developers worldwide building applications on Apple platforms, we at AWS bring you the first ever macOS based compute environments in…

Amazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAmazon S3 Update – Strong Read-After-Write Consistency When we launched S3 back in 2006, I discussed its virtually unlimited capacity (“…easily store any number of blocks…”), the fact that it was designed to provide 99.99% availability, and that it offered durable storage, with data transparently stored in multiple locations. Since that launch,…