Introducing AWS Community Builders

By Dustin Ward

I have some exciting news that I can finally share with you. This is an announcement that I’ve been holding close for some time now. A few weeks ago AWS asked a few of us to join a new program that is focused on building cools things with AWS services. The AWS Community Builders program…

AWS CloudFormation support for AWS Service Catalog products

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS CloudFormation support for AWS Service Catalog products This blog post was updated on 7/21/2020 to reflect recent changes to how AWS Service Catalog obtains outputs from provisioned products. For more information see Provisioned product outputs are now available in AWS Service Catalog. You can use AWS Service Catalog to create preconfigured…

How KPMG Visualizes Cloud Billing Data with Amazon QuickSight

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow KPMG Visualizes Cloud Billing Data with Amazon QuickSight By Stephanie Gooch, Sr. DevOps Engineer, Enablement at KPMG Solutions and Digital The AWS Cost and Usage Report is the most granular cost report Amazon Web Services (AWS) has. It is more than 200 columns wide, and can have billions of rows for…

Building well-architected serverless applications: Controlling serverless API access – part 1

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding well-architected serverless applications: Controlling serverless API access – part 1 This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the nine serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See…

Logical separation: Moving beyond physical isolation in the cloud computing era

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedLogical separation: Moving beyond physical isolation in the cloud computing era We’re sharing an update to the Logical Separation on AWS: Moving Beyond Physical Isolation in the Era of Cloud Computing whitepaper to help customers benefit from the security and innovation benefits of logical separation in the cloud. This paper discusses using…

Cosine Similarity support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCosine Similarity support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports cosine similarity distance metric with k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) to power your similarity search engine. Cosine similarity is used to measure similarities between two vectors, irrespective of their sizes and is most commonly used in information retrieval, image recognition, text similarity,…