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• Amazon S3

  Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud storage service designed for online backup and archiving of data and applications on Amazon Web Services. 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

• Definitions to Get Started

  • data lake
  • Amazon Aurora
  • Amazon Connect
  • S3 Intelligent-Tiering

  • Firecracker
  • AWS Secrets Manager
  • Amazon Comprehend
  • Amazon S3

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• 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