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Cloud Academy’s AWS re:Invent 2020 Recap & Highlights
Now that the dust has settled on re:Invent 2020 — probably the most uniquely delivered AWS conference ever — we think it’s high time we get you a ...
Where Should You Be Focusing Your AWS Security Efforts?
Another day, another re:Invent session! This time I listened to Stephen Schmidt’s session, “AWS Security: Where we've been, where we're going.” Amo...
AWS Lambda re:Invent Wrap-up Week 1
All the newest AWS Lambda announcements In the first week of re:Invent, there were a few interesting announcements for Lambda that we should take ...
AWS re:Invent: 2020 Keynote Top Highlights and More
We’ve gotten through the first five days of the special all-virtual 2020 edition of AWS re:Invent. It’s always a really exciting time for practitio...
AWS Machine Learning Services
The speed at which machine learning (ML) is evolving within the cloud industry is exponentially growing, and public cloud providers such as AWS are...
Amazon FSx for Lustre Makes High Performance Computing More Accessible
One service which attracted my attention from the AWS re:Invent announcements was Amazon FSx for Lustre. While we have seen a lot of performance im...
Amazon Elastic Inference – GPU Acceleration for Faster Inferencing
“Add GPU acceleration to any Amazon EC2 instance for faster inference at much lower cost (up to 75% savings)” So you’ve just kicked off the trai...
IoT Thrives on AWS — re:Invent IoT Announcement Roundup
The Internet of Things (IoT) embeds technology into any physical thing to enable never before seen levels of connectivity. IoT is revolutionizing i...
New Security & Compliance Service: AWS Security Hub
This morning’s Andy Jassy keynote was followed by the announcement of over 20 new services across a spectrum of AWS categories, including those in ...
New Custom Key Stores in KMS – Backed by CloudHSM
Another new announcement was made by AWS here at re:Invent, this time in the popular security category. AWS has announced new custom key stores bac...
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