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• 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

• 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

• Definitions to Get Started

  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)
  • Google Compute Engine
  • Google App Engine
  • Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

  • Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS)
  • Amazon Braket
  • Amazon VPC traffic mirroring
  • AWS Glue

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• 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

• 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

• AWS Snowball Edge

  AWS Snowball Edge is a physical appliance intended to help an enterprise migrate large volumes of data into and off of the AWS public cloud.Continue Reading

• How AWS Fargate reduces container management burdens

  Enterprises face a number of management challenges when they adopt containers. While AWS Fargate eliminates some of these hurdles, be sure to mind your bill.Continue Reading

• Pave a lasting AWS career path

  While cloud certifications might help you land an AWS job, most employers look for IT pros with a mix of training and hands-on expertise. Use this guide to strike the right balance.Continue Reading

• AWS Auto Scaling

  AWS Auto Scaling is a service that automatically monitors and adjusts compute resources to maintain performance for applications hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS Migration Hub

  AWS Migration Hub is a service that monitors the progress of application migrations to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.Continue Reading

• Cost to run EC2 instances vs. Docker containers

  Fans of Docker claim it has many advantages for application deployment. But how does this translate in AWS? We do a trial run to compare costs.Continue Reading

• AWS AppSync

  AWS AppSync is an application development service hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud that synchronizes data for mobile and web apps in real time.Continue Reading

• Remove AWS security credentials for outgoing employees

  Personnel changes are inevitable at an enterprise, and security teams need to revoke AWS credentials accordingly to ensure the integrity of their cloud data.Continue Reading

• Tips and tools to give AWS network performance a jolt

  Don't wait for network performance to lag to do something about it. Proactively monitor AWS workloads to identify troublesome areas that can disrupt the end-user experience.Continue Reading

• AWS development services push apps from code to production

  To create an AWS deployment pipeline, developers use various tools, including CodeCommit and CodeDeploy, to build and rigorously test their applications.Continue Reading

• Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)

  Amazon Elastic Block Store is a cloud-based block storage system provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is best used for storing persistent data.Continue Reading

• Five tips to ease your AWS data migration effort

  Before migrating data to AWS, an enterprise must be mindful of security and networking challenges, as well as carefully select the best storage and database options for its needs.Continue Reading

• Native, third-party tools boost interoperability in cloud

  AWS exposes APIs and provides container services for portability, but does it go far enough? Some IT pros still find themselves leaning on third-party tools to fill critical gaps.Continue Reading

• AWS Artifact

  AWS Artifact is a portal that provides an enterprise with access to security and compliance reports that apply to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.Continue Reading

• Amazon WorkMail

  Amazon WorkMail is a managed email and calendar service for businesses that is hosted on the Amazon Web Services public cloud.Continue Reading

• Amazon Macie

  Amazon Macie is a cloud security tool that uses machine learning to identify and protect sensitive data stored in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.Continue Reading

• Test your knowledge of GDPR rights and AWS data protection

  Is your enterprise GDPR-compliant? Take this quick quiz to test your knowledge of the EU regulation, as well as relevant AWS data protection tools.Continue Reading

• Professional-level AWS certifications pay off for cloud vets

  To gain a Professional-level AWS certification, AWS requires at least two years of experience with its platform. But will it help your career, or is it just a notch in your belt?Continue Reading

• Words to go: Amazon AI services

  Artificial intelligence is a growing area of focus among the major cloud vendors. Use this list of key terms to see what AWS has to offer in the realm of AI.Continue Reading

• AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB)

  Network Load Balancer is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) tool that distributes end user traffic across multiple cloud resources to ensure low latency and high throughput for applications.Continue Reading

• AWS Cost Management

  AWS Cost Management is a collection of tools that provide insight into Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud cost and usage.Continue Reading

• Mind sensitive data during a hybrid cloud migration

  Many organizations fret over the security of sensitive data in hybrid cloud. And while that fear isn't totally irrational, there are solid options to keep your workloads safe.Continue Reading

• Third-party tools help manage DevOps with AWS, multi-cloud

  Many IT teams struggle with the cultural and technical shift to DevOps. Nathaniel Felsen, a DevOps professional, sorts through some tough choices.Continue Reading

• Amazon Echo

  Amazon Echo is a product line of hands-free speaker and virtual assistant devices that interact with an end user via the Amazon Alexa cloud-based voice service.Continue Reading

• AWS managed services improve performance, cost efficiency

  In this book excerpt from Effective DevOps with AWS, learn how to drive performance improvements and reduce costs with data management services.Continue Reading

• Avoid AWS access control mistakes to keep your cloud safe

  If you get clumsy with AWS security, you can put your whole business at risk. Be wary of these common errors, and implement best practices to secure your workloads.Continue Reading

• AWS CodeStar

  AWS CodeStar is a planning and management service designed for a team of developers working on a project in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.Continue Reading

• Eight tips to roll a service or app into an AWS deployment

  With dozens of services available, it can be a challenge to integrate new services or apps into an AWS deployment. Use these eight tips to get started.Continue Reading

• Test your knowledge of the AWS shared responsibility model

  Do you know where AWS' security responsibility ends and yours begins? Try your hand with this quick quiz.Continue Reading

• Amazon Pinpoint

  Amazon Pinpoint is a marketing and analytics service hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud that enables an organization to engage with and track metrics related to its application end users.Continue Reading

• Dive into AWS data lakes for analytics projects

  Data lakes on AWS can provide a treasure trove of information -- if you can work past complexity and management issues. Test the water with these cloud services.Continue Reading

• AWS Step Functions

  AWS Step Functions is a cloud service from Amazon Web Services that enables a developer to manage and visualize the components of distributed, multi-component applications.Continue Reading

• IaaS providers weigh new tech against core offerings

  Like its rivals, AWS continues to push itself up the stack -- and capture headlines in the process. But user demand still revolves around core infrastructure features.Continue Reading

• Five AWS tips and tricks to advance cloud app development

  Developers in 2017 continued to embrace Lambda and containers, as AWS added more support and services. Review SearchAWS' top development advice from last year to prepare for 2018.Continue Reading

• The future of AWS holds new tech, heated competition

  As the world rings in a new year, AWS moves forward in a contentious cloud market. Our experts speculate whether edge, IoT and machine learning will help AWS maintain its lead.Continue Reading

• These AWS features, partnerships dominated 2017 news

  It's difficult for AWS customers to stay informed on everything the cloud provider offers. Get up to speed with these top AWS news stories from 2017.Continue Reading

• Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs

  Amazon EC2 Elastic GPUs are virtual machines (VMs), also known as compute instances, in the Amazon Web Services public cloud with added graphics acceleration capabilities.Continue Reading

• AWS ADS (AWS Application Discovery Service)

  AWS Application Discovery Service (AWS ADS) is a tool that helps an enterprise plan application migrations to the Amazon Web Services public cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS IoT Button

  The AWS IoT Button is a programmable, Wi-Fi-enabled handheld device that allows developers to push a button to execute a variety of actions in the Amazon Web Services public cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS Managed Services

  AWS Managed Services is a set of services and tools that automate infrastructure management tasks for Amazon Web Services (AWS) deployments.Continue Reading

• Amazon Polly

  Amazon Polly is a text-to-speech service within the Amazon Web Services cloud platform. It uses deep learning technology to allow applications to speak with a human-like voice.Continue Reading

• Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

  Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) is a cloud computing service in Amazon Web Services (AWS) that manages containers and allows developers to run applications in the cloud without having to configure an environment for the code to run in.Continue Reading

• CloudFormation StackSets drive cross-account automation

  AWS gave its automation capabilities a boost with the release of CloudFormation StackSets, a feature that lets dev teams deploy stacks across multiple accounts and regions.Continue Reading

• Amazon Rekognition

  Amazon Rekognition is an image analysis service available in the Amazon AI suite.Continue Reading

• AWS Greengrass

  AWS Greengrass is a service that extends Amazon Web Services functionality to internet of things (IoT) devices, allowing a business to perform data collection and analysis closer to its origin.Continue Reading

• Amazon Chime

  Amazon Chime is a real-time audio, video conferencing and collaboration service hosted by Amazon Web Services (AWS).Continue Reading

• AWS Shield

  AWS Shield is a security service that protects web applications hosted on the Amazon Web Services public cloud against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.Continue Reading

• AWS Batch

  AWS Batch is a service that enables IT professionals to schedule and execute batch processing jobs in the Amazon Web Services public cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS Lambda (Amazon Web Services Lambda)

  AWS Lambda is an event-driven computing service that allows developers to program serverless functions on a pay-per-use basis.Continue Reading

• Amazon Developer Services

  Amazon Developer Services is a suite of tools and services that enable a developer to build, test and sell applications and games in the Amazon Appstore.Continue Reading

• The benefits and drawbacks of AWS Convertible Reserved Instances

  Reserved Instances save IT teams money on compute resources but lock them into a particular type of instance. How do Convertible RIs differ, and what are the drawbacks?Continue Reading

• AWS Marketplace seller, buyer FAQs

  AWS Marketplace serves Amazon Web Services customers and vendor partners alike. So, how does it work, and what types of software are available?Continue Reading

• AWS X-Ray

  AWS X-Ray is an application performance management service that enables a developer to analyze and debug applications in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS CodeBuild

  AWS CodeBuild is a managed cloud service that enables an IT developer to automate and manage server builds for applications that reside in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS SDK for Go

  The AWS SDK for Go is a collection of tools that helps a developer integrate applications built with the Go programming language into the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.Continue Reading

• Amazon Device Messaging

  Amazon Device Messaging (ADM) is an Amazon Developer Services tool that enables a developer to send push notifications to end user native devices that run a mobile application, such as a game or shopping platform.Continue Reading

• AWS Data Pipeline (Amazon Data Pipeline)

  AWS Data Pipeline is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) tool that enables an IT professional to process and move data between compute and storage services on the AWS public cloud and on-premises resources.Continue Reading

• Understand the pros, cons of an AWS cloud VPN service

  Our team will move workloads into AWS, but we need control and security over them. What VPN features does Amazon Lightsail provide, and is it better suited for certain workloads?Continue Reading

• AWS SDK for PHP

  The AWS SDK for PHP is an open source library designed to help developers build applications that are based on the PHP server-side scripting language within Amazon Web Services (AWS).Continue Reading

• AWS SDK for Ruby

  The AWS SDK for Ruby is a collection of tools designed to help a developer build applications within Amazon Web Services (AWS) that are based on the Ruby open source object-oriented programming language.Continue Reading

• Alexa Skills Kit

  The Alexa Skills Kit is a software development kit (SDK) that enables a developer to build skills, also called conversational applications, on the Amazon Alexa artificial intelligence assistant.Continue Reading

• AWS Security Token Service

  The AWS Security Token Service is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) software tool that enables an IT administrator to grant trusted users temporary and limited access credentials to public cloud resources.Continue Reading

• AWS Management Console

  The AWS Management Console is a browser-based GUI for Amazon Web Services (AWS).Continue Reading

• Amazon Lumberyard

  Amazon Lumberyard is a cross-platform video game development engine that connects to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.Continue Reading

• Amazon AI

  Amazon AI is a set of artificial intelligence services that offer machine and deep learning technologies for Amazon Web Services (AWS) developers and users.Continue Reading

• Which AWS programming language is best for our project?

  AWS developers can choose between a variety programming languages, including Microsoft, .NET, Java and Python. How do they differ and should we use them to develop applications?Continue Reading

• Amazon SWF (Simple WorkFlow Service)

  Amazon SWF (Simple Workflow Service) is an Amazon Web Services tool that helps developers coordinate, track and audit multi-step, multi-machine application jobs.Continue Reading

• Boto

  Boto is a software development kit (SDK) designed to improve the use of the Python programming language in Amazon Web Services. The Boto project started as a customer-contributed library to help developers build Python-based applications in the ...Continue Reading

• AWS Marketplace

  The AWS Marketplace is an online store managed by Amazon Web Services that allows a company to buy and sell software for deployment and development on the AWS platform.Continue Reading

• Using REST APIs in AWS connects services, creates concerns

  APIs help developers connect services, but also create security and management concerns. This excerpt from 'Mastering AWS Development' explores REST API commands for AWS.Continue Reading

• What are some AWS Marketplace benefits for enterprises?

  Our enterprise lists its services in the AWS Marketplace. What's the best way to use the marketplace to sell our products?Continue Reading

• AWS Certificate Manager

  The AWS Certificate Manager allows an IT team to create and renew free SSL and TSL certificates to create secure connections over the internet.Continue Reading

• AWS Mobile Hub

  The AWS Mobile Hub provides a console of features for developers to build, test, configure and manage mobile applications.Continue Reading

• Amazon EC2 Simple Systems Manager

  The Amazon EC2 Simple Systems Manager allows a developer to automatically configure instances via the EC2 Run Command and SSM Config features.Continue Reading

• AWS Support (Amazon Web Services Support)

  AWS Support provides advice and tools for developers in the AWS cloud. The service is billed monthly and has four tiers of support plans.Continue Reading

• Amazon WorkSpaces

  Amazon WorkSpaces is an Amazon Web Services tool that enables an IT administrator to give end users access to cloud applications, services, resources or documents on different types of devices within a virtualized desktop.Continue Reading

• AWS Command Line Interface

  The AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is an Amazon Web Services tool that enables developers to control Amazon public cloud services by typing commands on a specified line.Continue Reading

• Amazon Elastic Transcoder

  Amazon Elastic Transcoder is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) tool that allows an enterprise to convert media files into formats that a range of devices support, including smartphones, tablets and desktops.Continue Reading

• What are the limitations when running Active Directory in AWS?

  AWS Directory Service provides three options for running Active Directory in the cloud: Microsoft AD, Simple AD and AD Connector. What are the drawbacks of each AD option?Continue Reading

• AWS CloudHSM

  AWS CloudHSM is a security service that provides tamper-resistant infrastructure in the form of hardware security modules (HSMs) to protect highly sensitive data in the Amazon Web Services public cloud.Continue Reading

• AWS Directory Service

  The AWS Directory Service is an Amazon Web Services tool that allows enables an IT administrator to run Microsoft Active Directory (AD) in the public cloud, easing setup of user and group data and giving an end user access to AWS cloud services.Continue Reading

• AWS IoT (Amazon Web Services internet of things)

  AWS IoT is an Amazon Web Services platform that collects and analyzes data from internet-connected devices and sensors -- called the internet of things -- and connects that data to AWS cloud applications.Continue Reading

• AWS Partner Network (APN)

  The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a tiered group of cloud software and service vendors that earn endorsement from Amazon Web Services after meeting several criteria.Continue Reading

• How long does it take to retrieve data from Glacier storage?

  Our enterprise periodically needs to access cold data from Amazon Glacier. How long does it take to retrieve data, and what are other infrequent data access options?Continue Reading

• Master Amazon CloudWatch metrics to track AWS use

  Amazon CloudWatch enables administrators to track resources using metrics and log files. Admins should get to know the terminology as well as ins and outs of the auditing service.Continue Reading

• What features are involved with Amazon Glacier backup storage?

  We'd like to move infrequently accessed data to cold storage to save money. How does Amazon Glacier work and what are some of the main features?Continue Reading

• AWS instance types come in many shapes and sizes

  AWS instance types come in a wide range of options, each geared to specific purposes and workloads. This three-part guide looks at the different kinds of AWS instance types and common uses for each. It also explains how to best choose instance types...Continue Reading

• Amazon Kinesis Firehose

  Amazon Kinesis Firehose captures and loads streaming data in storage and business intelligence tools to enable near real-time analytics in the Amazon Web Services cloud.Continue Reading

• Optimize your service with AWS performance monitoring

  Native Amazon Web Services tools can help optimize performance, but they don't always give cloud developers and administrators the entire picture. Often, third-party cloud management tools can fill in the gaps to help with AWS performance monitoring...Continue Reading