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Amazon Mechanical Turk: Help for Building Your Machine Learning Datasets
How to use Mechanical Turk in combination with Amazon ML for dataset labelling Whether you build your own machine learning models in the Cloud or ...
Introduction to Amazon Machine Learning
The goal of this post is to introduce you to machine learning - and specifically Amazon Machine Learning - and help you understand how the cloud ca...
AWS re:Invent 2015: Real-World Smart Applications With Amazon Machine Learning
How to apply Machine Learning to social media to make your customers happy At his AWS re:Invent presentation, Alex Ingerman - technical product ma...
Machine Learning Predictive APIs and Apps: Conference Report
Machine Learning Predictive APIs and Apps: a first-hand report from the recent second International Conference in Sydney, Australia Last week I ha...
The Bayes Classifier: Building a Tweet Sentiment Analysis Tool
Machine learning, with all its math and complexity, can be daunting. We'll explore a relatively accessible technique: the Naive Bayes Classifier. ...
Machine Learning, Linux Administration, AWS Compute: This Week at Cloud Academy
Welcome to our weekly review of some of what’s new, interesting, and upcoming at Cloud Academy. New courses on Machine Learning, Linux Administrat...
Amazon Machine Learning: New Course
Tame the data beast with Amazon Machine Learning With the explosion of web-based computing of one sort or another, just about every one of the mil...
Google Prediction API: a Machine Learning Black Box for Developers
Google Prediction API provides a RESTful interface to build Machine Learning models This is my third article on how to build Machine Learning mode...
Azure Machine Learning: Simplified Predictive Analytics
Azure Machine Learning: A Cloud-based Predictive Analytics Service Last week I wrote about using AWS's Machine Learning tool to build your models ...
BigML: Machine Learning Made Easy
BigML offers a managed platform to build and share your datasets and models Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) has become a real thing in the C...
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Cloud Migration Series (Step 2 of 5): Start Planning
This is part 2 of a 5-part series on best practices for enterprise cloud migration. Released weekly from the end of April to the end of May 2021, each article will cover a new phase of a business’s transition to the cloud, what to be on the lookout for, and how to ensure the journey is ...
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?
Cloud computing is one of the fastest-growing technology in this modern era. According to the IDC report, “public cloud spending will grow from $229 billion in 2019 to nearly $500 billion in 2023.” Therefore, nobody can deny the rapid growth of cloud computing in recent years. Many b...
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...
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...
Advantages and Disadvantages of Microservices Architecture
What are microservices? Let's start our discussion by setting a foundation of what microservices are. Microservices are a way of breaking large software projects into loosely coupled modules, which communicate with each other through simple Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). ...
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 ...
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...
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 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...
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...
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate: A Study Guide
Want to take a really impactful step in your technical career? Explore the AWS Solutions Architect Associate certificate. Its new version (SAA-C02) was released on March 23, 2020. The AWS Solutions Architect - Associate Certification (or Sol Arch Associate for short) offers some ...