Getting Started with AWS EKS

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedGetting Started with AWS EKS AWS EKS (Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service) is a managed service that enables you to run Kubernetes on AWS without your own Kubernetes control plane. Let’s have a quick introduction to Amazon EKS! The widespread adoption of cloud computing and the positive interventions of technologies such as containers…

Introducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedIntroducing Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize Today, we are pleased to announce the addition of Recommendation Filters in Amazon Personalize, which improve the relevance of personalized recommendations by filtering out recommendations for products that users have already purchased, videos they have already watched, or other digital content they have already consumed. Receiving…

Building for Cost optimization and Resilience for EKS with Spot Instances

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding for Cost optimization and Resilience for EKS with Spot Instances This post is contributed by Chris Foote, Sr. EC2 Spot Specialist Solutions Architect Running your Kubernetes and containerized workloads on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances is a great way to save costs. Kubernetes is a popular open-source container management system that allows…

Announcing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances – GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAnnouncing the General Availability of Amazon EC2 G4dn Bare Metal Instances – GPU instances with up to 8 NVIDIA T4 GPUs Amazon EC2 has the cloud’s broadest and most capable portfolio of hardware-accelerated instances featuring GPUs, FPGAs, and our own custom ML inference chip, AWS Inferentia. G4dn instances offer the best price/performance…

Creating a persistent custom R environment for Amazon SageMaker

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCreating a persistent custom R environment for Amazon SageMaker Amazon SageMaker is a fully managed service that allows you to build, train, and deploy machine learning (ML) models quickly. Amazon SageMaker removes the heavy lifting from each step of the ML process to make it easier to develop high-quality models. In August…