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Getting Started with IoT with AWS and Microsoft Azure
Companies have been using devices and sensors to measure and quantify data for a while now. By 2020, Gartner predicts that more than 65% of enterpr...
What is a Chatbot? How to Build One and What Platforms You Should Use
What is a Chatbot? A chatbot is a conversational interface that can be used to interact with a product or service. While the term is well known in ...
Security, Machine Learning, Containers, and More: New on Cloud Academy!
This week, we’ve got lots of new content to share with you on Cloud Academy! Explore our newest learning paths, video courses, and hands-on labs on...
Amazon Machine Learning: Use Cases and a Real Example in Python
What is Amazon Machine Learning and how does it work "Amazon Machine Learning is a service that makes it easy for developers of all skill levels t...
Google Vision vs. Amazon Rekognition: A Vendor-neutral Comparison
Google Cloud Vision and Amazon Rekognition offer a broad spectrum of solutions, some of which are comparable in terms of functional details, qualit...
What is Amazon Machine Learning? How to Get Started
The phrase machine learning seems to appear alongside every new technology or service. Despite its popularity, many people still don’t understand e...
Natural Language Processing with Stanford CoreNLP
Cloud services offered via web API endpoints are an exploding and apparently relentless trend. The big players are exposing a huge (and increasing)...
Amazon Rekognition – Image Analysis as a Service
Amazon Rekognition: the new Image Analysis tool powered by Deep Learning Amazon itself has been powered by Machine Learning technologies for almos...
ServerlessConf Tokyo: Highlights From Japan on How App-Development is Changing
ServerlessConf Tokyo: we attended ServerlessConf Tokyo on Oct 1st and it's been an exciting time to be in Japan, thanks to more than 300 developers...
Getting Started with Google Cloud Speech API
Discover the Strengths and Weaknesses of Google Cloud Speech API in this Special Report by Cloud Academy's Roberto Turrin Google recently opened i...
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One of the most challenging parts of managing a team in today’s digital world is that technology advances faster than people’s skills can — leaving you guessing if you have the resources to complete projects on time and on budget. It’s that sinking feeling in your gut of fear and wor...
The 12 AWS Certifications: Which is Right for You and Your Team?
As companies increasingly shift workloads to the public cloud, cloud computing has moved from a nice-to-have to a core competency in the enterprise. This shift requires a new set of skills to design, deploy, and manage applications in cloud computing. As the market leader and most ma...
The 12 Microsoft Azure Certifications: Which is Right for You and Your Team?
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Disadvantages of Cloud Computing
If you want to deliver digital services of any kind, you’ll need to estimate all types of resources, not the least of which are CPU, memory, storage, and network connectivity. Which resources you choose for your delivery — cloud-based or local — is up to you. But you’ll definitely want...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Microservices Architecture
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What Exactly Is a Cloud Architect and How Do You Become One?
One of the buzzwords surrounding the cloud that I'm sure you've heard is "Cloud Architect." In this article, I will outline my understanding of what a cloud architect does and I'll analyze the skills and certifications necessary to become one. I will also list some of the types of jobs ...
How I Prepared for the 70-533 Azure Exam
I have been an IT Professional for over two decades. In that time, I have seen and experienced many changes in the IT landscape. Such changes included the move away from Novell to a fledgling company called Microsoft, the shift to something called Active Directory, and the explosion of...
Which Certifications Should I Get?
The old AWS slogan, “Cloud is the new normal” is indeed a reality today. Really, cloud has been the new normal for a while now and getting credentials has become an increasingly effective way to quickly showcase your abilities to recruiters and companies. With all that in mind, the s...
How to Use & Install the AWS CLI
What is the AWS CLI? | The AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) is for managing your AWS services from a terminal session on your own client, allowing you to control and configure multiple AWS services and implement a level of automation. If you’ve been using AWS for some time and feel...
Cloud Migration Risks & Benefits
If you’re like most businesses, you already have at least one workload running in the cloud. However, that doesn’t mean that cloud migration is right for everyone. While cloud environments are generally scalable, reliable, and highly available, those won’t be the only considerations dri...
S3 FTP: Build a Reliable and Inexpensive FTP Server Using Amazon’s S3
Is it possible to create an S3 FTP file backup/transfer solution, minimizing associated file storage and capacity planning administration headache? FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a fast and convenient way to transfer large files over the Internet. You might, at some point, have config...
How DNS Works – the Domain Name System (Part One)
Before migrating domains to Amazon's Route53, we should first make sure we properly understand how DNS works While we'll get to AWS's Route53 Domain Name System (DNS) service in the second part of this series, I thought it would be helpful to first make sure that we properly understand...
Google Cloud Platform Certification: Preparation and Prerequisites
Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has evolved from being a niche player to a serious competitor to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. In 2020, research firm Gartner placed Google in the Leaders quadrant in its Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services for the third c...