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• 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

• Where AWS Elemental Cloud fits in digital content market

  AWS Elemental offers a host of tools to process and manage on-demand and streaming media in the cloud. It can also, however, present enterprise networking and integration hurdles. 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

• Definitions to Get Started

  • Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Store)
  • AWS Artifact
  • Amazon WorkMail
  • Amazon Macie

  • AWS Network Load Balancer (NLB)
  • Amazon Connect
  • AWS Cost Management
  • Amazon Echo

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• 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 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

• US-East-1 region's checkered past deters some users, but many remain

  AWS users in the US-East-1 region have seen a string of outages in the last few years. But does that mean they shouldn't deploy workloads there?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 Lightsail

  Amazon Lightsail is an Amazon cloud service that offers bundles of cloud compute power and memory for new or less experienced cloud users.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

• AWS Organizations

  AWS Organizations is a cloud service that applies and manages access policies across Amazon Web Services accounts.Continue Reading

• Amazon EFS (Elastic File System)

  Amazon EFS (Elastic File System) is a cloud-based file storage service for applications and workloads that run in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.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