The Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud is intended to run instances within Amazon Web Services (AWS), but the EC2 console can also manage instances running in your own datacenter. These instances can be listed in the console alongside cloud-based instances. On-premises instances are marked with a mi prefix. Depending on whether the instance runs Windows or…
Month: November 2022
Use AWS to Create SSL and TLS Certs
TLS (transport layer security), and SSL (secure sockets layers) certificates have been expensive for a long time in the IT world. I remember paying almost $1,000 for an SSL certificate around the turn of this new millennium. The certificate was valid for one year. Although things have improved, certificates can still be quite expensive. I…
Part 2: Using AWS to Transcode Video
In my previous article, I explained how to set-up the Amazon Web Services (AWS), Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets required by a video transcoding job. Let’s convert a movie now that we have the storage buckets in place. Upload one or more videos to your source bucket. Log in to the AWS console and open…
Part 1: Using AWS to Transcode Video
You can read Part 2 here. Video transcoding is one of the coolest things you can do using Amazon Web Services (AWS). This basically converts a video to a different format. There are many utilities that can transcode videos that you can download from different Web sites. Some of these utilities are even free. AWS…
AWS Network Endpoint Monitoring
While there are many tools that can be used to monitor the health of resources located in our datacenters, not all of them work with resources in the public cloud. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which it collectively refers as Route 53, offers a range of health-check tools. Monitoring endpoint availability is one of the most…
Salesforce Taps AWS to Expand Cloud Expansion
Salesforce.com Inc. is a specialist in customer relationship management (CRM). It offers software and services through a variety solutions hosted on its cloud infrastructure. AWS has been chosen by Salesforce.com Inc. as its preferred public cloud infrastructure provider. Salesforce will expand its partnership with AWS to facilitate international expansion of its infrastructure. AWS already hosts…
Salesforce and AWS Expand Their Product Integrations
Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Salesforce announced plans to further integrate their services to “simplify” how customers can securely share, synchronize and sync data across their respective clouds. The new integrations were revealed earlier this week at Salesforce Dreamforce’s annual conference. AWS and Salesforce are already partners. This week’s news was described as “the next…
CyberArk vs. SailPoint
Organizations face a difficult task in securing their data and resources from security breaches like identity theft and spoofing. This is done by using untrusted internal and external resources and granting unmonitored access to the applications and devices they use. To protect assets and identify information, it is essential that enterprises of all sizes have…
SailPoint IdentityIQ Admin and Developer
What is SailPoint? SailPoint is a complete management identity management system for governance. It allows business users to quickly access applications while maintaining access control to keep their company safe. According to Gartner, SailPoint was in the leader’s quadrant for six years in the Identity and Access governance sector. Enterprises can manage the entire lifecycle…
SageMaker Improvements Aim to Make Machine Learning Even More Accessible Amazon SageMaker is a machine learning platform that Amazon Web Services (AWS), describes as “everyday developers.” This week, re:Invent announced a host new features that will make machine learning even more accessible. Swami Sivasubramanian (head of machine learning at AWS), said in a prepared statement Tuesday that the new tools will make it easier for developers to create end-to-end machine-learning pipelines to prepare and build, train, explain and inspect, monitor and debug custom machine learning models with greater visibility and explainability. These nine new features are part of AWS’ long-standing efforts to “democratize machine learning” so that even those with little experience in machine learning can build, train, and deploy machine learning models to be integrated into their applications. SageMaker is a great example of these efforts. SageMaker was launched in 2017 and has since grown to be more feature-rich and integrates with other AWS services. AWS claims that it has added 50 new features in SageMaker over the past year. These are the nine new features that AWS announced this week:
SageMaker Data Wrangler is a new feature that promises to make data preparation easier. Data Wrangler is a point-and click interface that allows developers to quickly select the data from their AWS environment that they want to use in their machine learning model. They can then import it and prepare it with 300 pre-included transforms….