2019 Q4 recipients of AWS Machine Learning Research Awards

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services Feed2019 Q4 recipients of AWS Machine Learning Research Awards The AWS Machine Learning Research Awards (MLRA) aims to advance machine learning (ML) by funding innovative research and open-source projects, training students, and providing researchers with access to the latest technology. Since 2017, MLRA has supported over 180 research projects from 73 schools…

Enable fine-grained permissions for Amazon QuickSight authors in AWS Lake Formation

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedEnable fine-grained permissions for Amazon QuickSight authors in AWS Lake Formation We’re excited to announce the integration of Amazon QuickSight with the AWS Lake Formation security model, which provides fine-grained access control for QuickSight authors. Data lake administrators can now use the Lake Formation console to grant QuickSight users and groups permissions…

Survey: Employee Security Training is Essential to Remote Working Success

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedSurvey: Employee Security Training is Essential to Remote Working Success Organisations have been forced to adapt rapidly over the past few months as government lockdowns kept most workers to their homes. For many, the changes they’ve made may even become permanent as more distributed working becomes the norm. This has major implications…

Deriving conversational insights from invoices with Amazon Textract, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Lex

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedDeriving conversational insights from invoices with Amazon Textract, Amazon Comprehend, and Amazon Lex Organizations across industries have a large number of physical documents such as invoices that they need to process. It is difficult to extract information from a scanned document when it contains tables, forms, paragraphs, and check boxes. Organization have…

How APN Partners Can Engage with the AWS Direct Connect Partner Model

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow APN Partners Can Engage with the AWS Direct Connect Partner Model By Anjali Vijayakumar, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Sohaib Tahir, Senior Solutions Architect at AWS AWS Direct Connect is a networking service that allows for hybrid connectivity between customers’ on-premises environments (data centers, offices, or colocation environments) and the Amazon…

Connected Car Standards – Thank Goodness!

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedConnected Car Standards – Thank Goodness! Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) require harmonization among manufacturers to have any chance of succeeding in the real world. No large-scale car manufacturer, multimodal shipper, or MaaS (Mobility as a Service) provider will risk investing in a single-vendor solution. Successful ITS require interoperable components, especially for managing…