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• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

  Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud storage service. Continue Reading

• Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

  An Amazon Resource Name (ARN) is a file naming convention used to identify a particular resource in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud. Continue Reading

• AWS Glue

  AWS Glue is a cloud service that prepares data for analysis through automated extract, transform, load (ETL) processes. Continue Reading

• How Amazon launched the warehouse robotics industry

  In 2012, the warehouse robotics industry consisted of Kiva Systems, the sole supplier to serve all e-commerce companies. When Amazon devoured Kiva, a wellspring of startups bubbled up in response. Continue Reading

• Learn the scope of Amazon subscription services

  Prime is just one of Amazon's many membership offerings. Learn the features and fees of Amazon subscriptions to understand this business unit. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
  • Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
  • AWS Glue
  • Amazon VPC traffic mirroring

  • Amazon Braket
  • data lake
  • AWS Landing Zone
  • AWS certification

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• Amazon healthcare initiatives wake up an industry slow to change

  Amazon's entrance into healthcare pushes established healthcare businesses to address and improve longstanding logistical and technological issues.Continue Reading

• Break down the components of Amazon's retail business

  Scan this overview of Amazon's various retail business units, from online platforms to brick-and-mortar stores, to understand what makes the company a dominant force in retail.Continue Reading

• Amazon VPC traffic mirroring

  Traffic mirroring is a feature for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). The feature is used to monitor the network-level traffic of workloads.Continue Reading

• Amazon Braket

  Amazon Braket is a fully managed AWS cloud service designed to allow users remote access to a single development environment for quantum computers.Continue Reading

• data lake

  A data lake is a storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its native format until it is needed.Continue Reading

• Set up a Jupyter notebook on AWS with this tutorial

  AWS machine learning capabilities relies on the Jupyter Notebook tool. Follow this video tutorial to learn how to set up a Jupyter notebook on Amazon EMR.Continue Reading

• Follow these experts' advice on AWS migration best practices

  Before you migrate to the AWS cloud, learn from those who've made the move before. These migration best practices cover resource planning, costs, testing and more.Continue Reading

• Set up a data lake on AWS with Lake Formation

  Modern businesses must organize an unprecedent amount of information. Find out how AWS Lake Formation can help your business manage and analyze high volumes of data.Continue Reading

• Prepare for an AWS outage with these preventative steps

  Set up the proper data protection and recovery measures before a cloud outage hits. Follow these backup and disaster recovery tips to keep workloads running during and after an outage.Continue Reading

• A complete guide to AWS re:Invent 2019

  AWS re:Invent is one of the biggest cloud and IT events of the year. Use this AWS conference guide to get the latest news and expert analysis before, during and after the show.Continue Reading

• Get to know these AWS hybrid cloud storage and architecture services

  Use this breakdown to build a hybrid cloud strategy. Learn the ins and outs of AWS' hybrid cloud capabilities, from AWS Snowball devices to AWS Outposts and VMware Cloud on AWS.Continue Reading

• Get started with machine learning in this Amazon SageMaker tutorial

  Watch this Amazon SageMaker demo on how to deploy machine learning models on AWS. From setting up IAM roles to sorting your data, this tutorial will guide you through the process.Continue Reading

• AWS SysOps certification exam guide outlines admin responsibility

  In this book excerpt from "AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate All-in-One Exam Guide," review the best practices for OS and application security on AWS.Continue Reading

• Tune into this Amazon Managed Blockchain tutorial for beginners

  Follow this step-by-step video tutorial to get started with Amazon Managed Blockchain, and use the service to create and run a blockchain network with Hyperledger Fabric.Continue Reading

• Experts expect AWS re:Invent 2019 to spotlight AI, security and more

  Re:Invent 2019 will yet again be heavy on product rollouts. Get ready for the show with a rundown on the topics and technologies our experts predict AWS will spotlight.Continue Reading

• AWS Landing Zone

  AWS Landing Zone is software provided by Amazon to help AWS customers set up a secure, multi-account AWS environment.Continue Reading

• How AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring works

  Solve cloud network traffic issues with VPC Traffic Mirroring. Breakdown how traffic mirroring works and how it can boost monitoring and security practices in your AWS environment.Continue Reading

• How to get the most out of AWS re:Invent 2019

  Get the lowdown on this year's re:Invent before you go. With tips on travel logistics, session reservations and social outings, you'll be ready to maximize your time in Las Vegas.Continue Reading

• What AWS testing tools and services are available?

  There are many tools available on the AWS Marketplace for QA testing, making it difficult to determine where to begin. What should an enterprise look for when choosing among QA tools?Continue Reading

• Amplify improvements streamline AWS mobile app development

  Once just an open source Java library, AWS Amplify is now a full-fledged AWS mobile app development platform. Learn how it works and how it compares to Google Firebase.Continue Reading

• A go-to AWS migration checklist for DevOps-ready enterprises

  Follow this checklist to prepare for a cloud migration and optimize DevOps practices. The steps include advice on tools and practices to support the move to an IaaS model or higher-level AWS offerings.Continue Reading

• Tailor and create compliance rules with this AWS Config tutorial

  Get started with this guide to AWS Config rules. Learn how to customize AWS Config managed rules with CloudFormation and create new rules with AWS Lambda.Continue Reading

• Set AWS security automation in motion with these practices

  Enterprises need to continuously improve their cloud security posture. Catch up on the latest expert advice on AWS security tools and practices.Continue Reading

• Follow this AWS Fargate tutorial to deploy a containerized app

  New to containers on AWS? Learn how to navigate the Amazon ECS Management Console to configure the proper container orchestration in this simple AWS Fargate example.Continue Reading

• Prepare for cloud security and shared responsibility

  Organizations that move to the cloud must prepare to adapt their security playbooks. Learn how AWS' shared responsibility model complicates cloud security.Continue Reading

• How to use batch operations to process S3 objects

  AWS ops pros can use Amazon S3 Batch Operations to process and move high volumes of objects between buckets. Find out how Batch Operations on AWS works with this video tutorial.Continue Reading

• AWS certification

  AWS certification is a level of Amazon Web Services cloud expertise that an IT professional obtains after passing one or more exams the public cloud provider offers.Continue Reading

• Navigate AWS storage options through the years

  Storage services were foundational to AWS' early success and remain central to customers' cloud strategies today. Visualize the growth and usage of AWS storage with this infographic.Continue Reading

• How to migrate from Azure to Amazon's cloud with AWS SMS

  AWS Server Migration Service can move large swaths of Azure, Windows and VMware VMs into AWS, whether it's a one-time migration or a periodic replication between environments. Learn how to put it to use.Continue Reading

• Understanding AWS security groups' capabilities and limitations

  Expand your knowledge of AWS security groups. Learn how to configure them for traffic protection, along with how they compare to other firewall options on AWS.Continue Reading

• Set up data analytics apps with this Amazon Kinesis tutorial

  Real-time streaming data analysis involves two major steps. Follow this Amazon Kinesis video tutorial to create your data stream and analyze it in a Kinesis application.Continue Reading

• Unlock machine learning with these Amazon SageMaker examples

  AWS has lowered the cost to train machine learning models. If you want to get started with Amazon SageMaker, befriend a data scientist and build a predictive chatbot.Continue Reading

• Follow this Amazon Route 53 tutorial on hybrid DNS resolution

  Before you start a hybrid cloud migration, unify the applications' multiple hosting environments. Learn some hybrid cloud DNS magic with this Route 53 Resolver video tutorial.Continue Reading

• Set up an AWS recommendation engine with Amazon Personalize

  Amazon Personalize offers machine recommendation algorithms as a service, but it's not the only recommendation engine on the market with AI behind it.Continue Reading

• Learn how to deploy a Flask app to AWS Elastic Beanstalk

  Explore Elastic Beanstalk, the cloud service that automates web application provisioning on AWS infrastructure. Use this tutorial to model your own deployment with Python and Flask.Continue Reading

• Automate user and group creation with this AWS IAM tutorial

  Watch this 5-minute video to learn how to automate AWS IAM resources. See how to provision users and groups with CloudFormation templates, and manage IAM policies for permissions.Continue Reading

• Filter for AWS objects with these PowerShell commands for S3

  Because of S3's flat structure, it can be difficult to find your way around the service. Learn how to use PowerShell S3 commands to find the right AWS objects.Continue Reading

• Storage Gateway basics to set an AWS hybrid storage strategy

  AWS Storage Gateway deploys a gateway that connects on-premises tasks and applications to the AWS cloud. This sets your IT infrastructure up for disaster recovery and backup.Continue Reading

• Follow this step-by-step guide to use AWS Lambda with PowerShell

  Explore the process needed to prepare, package and publish Lambda functions with PowerShell modules. Use the examples in each step to model your own functions.Continue Reading

• Set and track backup activity with the AWS Backup service

  AWS Backup service configures, tracks and manages backups across multiple data storage services. It can save time and resources, but still has limitations.Continue Reading

• Bookmark the latest top tips on AWS cloud development tools

  Catch up on recent expert advice about important AWS updates for developers, including Step Functions integrations, expanded Lambda functionality and the release of Amazon Corretto.Continue Reading

• Words to go: AWS cloud migration services

  Whether you transfer large applications, servers or databases, AWS offers a range of migration tools. Familiarize yourself with its native services to map out a move to the cloud.Continue Reading

• Use S3 bucket security best practices to cut off public access

  AWS users need the benefits of S3 but not the security concerns that come along with it. Follow these guidelines to prevent the threat of public access to S3 buckets.Continue Reading

• Words to go: AWS databases

  AWS has an expansive list of database services. Check out these brief overviews of each one to avoid confusion and get a sense for which could meet your IT demands.Continue Reading

• AWS Security Hub centralizes an organization's cloud security view

  AWS Security Hub consolidates an admin's sprawl of cloud assets into dashboards for better security insights. But its resource limitations may blunt its effectiveness, for now.Continue Reading

• Amazon Forecast melds time series data with machine learning

  Consider Amazon Forecast to help with data predictions, resource planning and more. Find out how the service works and ways it can be customized to meet enterprise needs.Continue Reading

• AWS App Mesh faces tough race in microservices market

  As AWS and its rivals continue to evolve their service mesh technologies, they'll have to do so with enterprise demands, including those for multi-cloud capabilities, top of mind.Continue Reading

• AWS Control Tower aims to simplify multi-account management

  Many organizations struggle to manage their massive collection of AWS accounts, but Control Tower could help. The service automates the creation and governance of user accounts.Continue Reading

• AWS Outposts continues the trend of 'cloud-down' hybrid

  AWS Outposts may not make an impact until 2020, but organizations still need to prepare for Amazon's on-prem cloud service to see if the 'cloud-down' approach fits their needs.Continue Reading

• How to integrate DevOps QA testing on AWS

  QA testing is an overlooked, but important, part of DevOps. For workloads on AWS, use CodeBuild, CodeCommit and other tools to make the most of your workflow.Continue Reading

• Amazon Aurora

  Amazon Aurora is a relational database engine from Amazon Web Services. The engine is MySQL-compatible, which means code, applications and drivers used in databases relying on MySQL can be used in Aurora with minimal or no changes.Continue Reading

• Amazon Connect

  Amazon Connect is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud customer contact center service.Continue Reading

• S3 Intelligent-Tiering

  S3 Intelligent-Tiering is an Amazon S3 storage class that analyzes an AWS user's stored data and automatically moves it between storage tiers based on usage frequency.Continue Reading

• Firecracker

  Firecracker is a light-weight virtualization technology open sourced by Amazon Web Services.Continue Reading

• AWS Secrets Manager

  AWS Secrets Manager is a security service to centrally manage sensitive information and eliminate the need to hard-code that information into an application.Continue Reading

• Amazon Connect integrations aim to improve call center apps

  Together, Amazon Connect and Lex can benefit call center agents, as chatbots reduce the workload and provide valuable insights into the customer experience.Continue Reading

• Amazon Comprehend

  Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning to analyze and find relationships in text.Continue Reading

• Lambda support for PowerShell Core opens developer doors

  In this video, SearchAWS contributor Adam Bertram breaks down PowerShell Core support in AWS Lambda and how Microsoft developers can make the most of this integration.Continue Reading

• AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)

  AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) is a framework a developer can use to create and deploy serverless applications that run on Amazon's cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS Firewall Manager

  AWS Firewall Manager is a tool from Amazon Web Services that an organization can use to configure policies for the cloud vendor's native web application firewall (WAF) service.Continue Reading

• AWS Cloud9

  AWS Cloud9 is an integrated development environment (IDE) a developer can use to manage code via a browser and collaborate with other developers.Continue Reading

• Amazon Redshift Spectrum

  Amazon Redshift Spectrum is a feature within Amazon Web Services' Redshift data warehousing service that lets a data analyst conduct fast, complex analysis on objects stored on the AWS cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS re:Invent 2018 predictions emphasize Lambda, containers

  Expanded serverless offerings, as well as new instance types and IoT services, are set to emerge from AWS re:Invent 2018, according to these predictions.Continue Reading

• Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS)

  Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) is a cloud-based container management service that natively integrates with Kubernetes to deploy applications.Continue Reading

• AWS Instance Scheduler

  AWS Instance Scheduler is a tool from Amazon Web Services that automates when and where a user's virtual machine instances are deployed on the public cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS DeepLens

  AWS DeepLens is a programmable video camera that enables a developer to easily experiment with machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).Continue Reading

• AWS Fargate

  AWS Fargate is a service that enables a user to run containers on Amazon's cloud computing platform without the need to manage the underlying infrastructure.Continue Reading

• Build an AWS multiregion architecture to meet global demand

  Globally distributed applications offer a number of benefits, such as high availability. But IT teams need to put in the work to successfully deploy an AWS multiregion architecture.Continue Reading

• Words to go: AWS business productivity apps

  AWS may be best known for IaaS, but the provider also offers SaaS apps to enhance business productivity. That said, they likely won't check off every box for enterprise users.Continue Reading

• How Amazon Cognito fits into AWS security best practices

  In this chapter excerpt from AWS: Security Best Practices on AWS, author Albert Anthony highlights how Amazon Cognito plays a role in application development on the AWS cloud.Continue Reading

• Bring AI to the edge with AWS Greengrass ML Inference

  Learn the basics of machine learning inference with AWS Greengrass and how it can help train models and increase data value with real-time insights.Continue Reading

• Manually spin up an EC2 server instance in 7 steps

  For various reasons, an enterprise might choose to buck the trend of automation and instead manually spin up an EC2 instance. When that's the case, follow these seven steps.Continue Reading

• Top AWS re:Invent 2018 sessions to pencil in for Vegas

  Unsure which re:Invent 2018 sessions to attend? Check out this day-by-day guide for suggestions and options on a range of AWS topics, including migration, security and costs.Continue Reading

• AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO)

  AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) is a service from Amazon Web Services that enables IT to manage user access to multiple applications and AWS accounts from a single, centralized console.Continue Reading

• For AI on AWS, it all starts with experimentation

  For enterprises, the term artificial intelligence comes with a lot of baggage. Start from scratch with these expert tips to get your Amazon AI project off the ground.Continue Reading

• Use AWS DeepLens to develop AI skills

  The DeepLens service partners well with other AWS offerings and opens the door for numerous user- and customer-facing applications. Get started with the deep learning technology.Continue Reading

• AWS PrivateLink

  AWS PrivateLink is a networking feature provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that eases and secures connectivity between Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), other Amazon cloud services and on-premises applications.Continue Reading

• Assess VMC on AWS benefits against possible tradeoffs

  AWS provides the types of benefits many VMware -- and Amazon -- users want, despite some tradeoffs for those more accustomed to vSphere on premises.Continue Reading

• Note these Amazon Lex chatbot integrations, limits

  Amazon Lex opens the door for conversational interactions with apps. But, while it's easy to create a chatbot, you must have the right pieces in place to take advantage of Lex.Continue Reading

• Amazon Transcribe

  Amazon Transcribe is a speech recognition service that transcribes audio files into text.Continue Reading

• Amazon Sumerian an experimental service with enterprise potential

  AWS' foray into virtual reality and 3D apps simplifies certain tasks for developers, but the vendor could struggle to find an audience among enterprise customers.Continue Reading

• When should data normalization occur in Amazon DynamoDB?

  Not sure when to normalize data in Amazon DynamoDB? Follow these three examples to learn more about the normalization process and how it can play a role in this AWS database.Continue Reading

• Amazon S3 bucket

  An Amazon S3 bucket is a public cloud storage resource available in Amazon Web Services' (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3), an object storage offering.Continue Reading

• Amazon Neptune

  Amazon Neptune is a managed service that enables a user to create and manage a graph database in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.Continue Reading

• Amazon SageMaker

  Amazon SageMaker is a service that enables a developer to build and train machine learning models for predictive or analytical applications in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.Continue Reading

• Five AWS IAM best practices to bolster cloud security

  To mitigate risks and protect cloud resources, many organizations rely on AWS IAM policies. Use these five tips to learn the basic features -- and limitations -- of the service.Continue Reading

• Amazon GuardDuty

  Amazon GuardDuty is a managed cloud security monitoring service that detects behavior or threats that can compromise Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts, resources or workloads.Continue Reading

• Amazon Neptune arms analytics teams with graph databases

  Turn to a graph database to put aside table joins for good. With Amazon Neptune, a developer can assess and query relationships between data sets.Continue Reading

• Use SQS to trigger functions in Lambda -- finally

  The wait is over, as you can now trigger Lambda functions with SQS messages. Follow these steps to get up and running with this new capability.Continue Reading

• Master AWS CloudFormation templates with these five tips

  AWS CloudFormation enables businesses to automate much of their cloud infrastructure. Read this expert advice to ramp up with the service.Continue Reading

• AWS Business Builder

  AWS Business Builder is a suite of technical, sales and marketing resources provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help software companies within its partner program connect with potential customers and expand their businesses.Continue Reading

• Use AWS tags to sharpen your cloud visibility

  AWS resource tags provide admins with more visibility into their cloud deployment. Learn how to implement them with these best practices.Continue Reading

• Gluon (deep learning library)

  Gluon is an open source deep learning library jointly created by AWS and Microsoft that helps developers build, train and deploy machine learning models in the cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS Amplify

  AWS Amplify is an open source JavaScript library provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that enables developers to build applications with cloud services on web or mobile platforms.Continue Reading

• Use service-linked IAM roles to simplify user permissions

  While AWS IAM enables control over a cloud environment, it can become a management nightmare. Automate part of this process via service-linked roles to free up time for other tasks.Continue Reading