Month: October 2022

Amazon gave its 1-year old AWS Educate program a substantial boost this week to better prepare students in cloud-centric careers. Wednesday’s announcement by the company included over two dozen new training modules called “Cloud Career Pathways” and a new job board that links students with companies seeking entry-level positions in the cloud. Students in the…

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has been continuously upgrading its tools for converting data warehouse schemas into database and extracting/importing housed data into AWS target sources. Yesterday, AWS announced new SQL Server functionality. AWS provides an AWS Schema Conversion Tool, (SCT), as part of its AWS Database Migrator Service (DMS). This tool converts the source…

Amazon Web Services (AWS), announced this week several enhancements to Amazon Connect. This cloud-based call center service is available through Amazon Web Services (AWS). After being tested internally at Amazon.com, Amazon Connect was made publicly available in March. It is a self-service platform that allows companies to quickly set up, scale, and customize their own…

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), launched this week a new Seoul datacenter region, strengthening its position in the Asia-Pacific area (APAC). “Thousands of Korean customers have used the AWS Cloud from other AWS regions for many years.” The company announced Wednesday that the Seoul Region was now available to Korean-based developers and companies. They can…

Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has set its sights on France in its plans to expand its global cloud infrastructure. The company plans to open a new Paris region sometime in 2017, according to CTO Werner Vogels, in a blog post on Thursday. AWS’ fourth European region will be Paris. Vogels stated that AWS currently…

The ongoing war of words between execs at Amazon Web Services Inc. and cloud computing competitor Oracle Corp. continues, with the latest salvo launched today by AWS vice president and distinguished engineering James Hamilton in response to comments made Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd. Hurd was quoted in Fortune earlier this month under the title “Oracle…

Are you afraid to use PowerShell in your environment due to security concerns? Are there security concerns in your organization that prevent you from using PowerShell? PowerShell security is not always as it appears. Sometimes, perceptions can be irrational. PowerShell is more secure than other scripting languages. First generation: batch files Let’s start with the…

I spoke at a conference for women in construction management. I was a little nervous when they asked me to share the tip that has helped me most in my career. I said: Until you are told otherwise, assume that you have permission. It’s your right to take it. If you are able to accept…

“I came in last Wednesday and you wouldn’t let me pick up my debit card,” said the man in the queue. “You said that I needed to deposit money into the account before I could get the card.” The cashier said, “We sent it to you in the UK on Friday.” “But the whole point”…

A while back, I received a generic-looking letter from the gym. One of those letters where they photocopy a photocopy, and it ends up looking tatty. It helpfully advised me that my subscription was almost up. You should renew. Yes, I did think about renewing. After thinking about it for a while, I returned to…