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AWS infrastructure

Successfully moving workloads to the public cloud or hinging your entire business on AWS infrastructure can be a tricky endeavor. Companies must possess a strong understanding of all facets of the Amazon cloud, including instance types, reliability zones as well as ancillary products available within the cloud infrastructure.

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• Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

  Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud storage service.

• Amazon Resource Name (ARN)

  An Amazon Resource Name (ARN) is a file naming convention used to identify a particular resource in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud.

• cloud application performance management (cloud APM)

  Cloud application performance management (cloud APM) is the process of monitoring resources that support software application performance in public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud environments, and ultimately taking actions to resolve issues and maintain optimal performance.

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• AWS month in review: An AWS re:Invent recap of overlooked roll outs
• Set up a Jupyter notebook on AWS with this tutorial
• Perform an AWS security assessment with these tips and tools

More AWS infrastructure Topics

• Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) management
• Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) and backup
• Amazon WorkSpaces and other DaaS options
• AWS CloudWatch and application performance monitoring
• AWS disaster recovery
• AWS instances strategy and setup
• AWS network management
• AWS security

Amazon's Influence

News and features on how Amazon influences technological, economic and social change, and how it competes, innovates and automates and disrupts the status quo in every industry. We look at Amazon markets, logistics, e-commerce strategy, AI, culture, customer experience, overall workplace issues, failures and successes, among our breadth of topics.

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• Amazon's impact on publishing transforms the book industry
• How Amazon and COVID-19 influence 2020 seasonal hiring trends
• New Amazon grocery stores run on computer vision, apps

AWS artificial intelligence

AWS artificial intelligence services enable enterprises to apply machine learning, natural language processing and other advanced technologies to their applications. Open up a vast number of computing possibilities with these AWS AI services and tools.

Recent Definitions

• Amazon Personalize

  Amazon Personalize is a low-code recommendation engine that can generate custom recommendations for any application running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure. 

• Amazon Sumerian

  Amazon Sumerian is a managed service and set of tools for creating augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) applications.

• Amazon Translate

  Amazon Translate is a cloud service for changing large amounts of text written in one language to another language. Amazon Translate supports 25 languages, with the official documentation detailing which languages can be paired up for translation.

Highlights

• AWS AI tools focus on developers
• Set up a Jupyter notebook on AWS with this tutorial
• Amazon's growth strategy could target 5 key markets

More AWS artificial intelligence Topics

• Alexa development
• AWS machine learning
• AWS natural language processing

AWS cloud development

Cloud application development is the heart of the AWS cloud. This section is dedicated to developers working with platforms such as AWS Elastic Beanstalk, which allows them to easily deploy and manage Web apps; AWS CloudFormation, which allows you to deploy a collection of AWS resources and AWS OpsWorks for DevOps type environments.

Recent Definitions

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon that includes a mixture of infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and packaged software as a service (SaaS) offerings.

• Amazon Braket

  Amazon Braket is a fully managed AWS cloud service designed to allow users remote access to a single development environment for quantum computers.

• 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.

Highlights

• AWS month in review: An AWS re:Invent recap of overlooked roll outs
• AWS AI tools focus on developers
• Follow these experts' advice on AWS migration best practices

More AWS cloud development Topics

• AWS application lifecycle management (ALM) tools
• AWS architecture and design
• AWS Lambda
• AWS Services for integration and middleware
• AWS tools for development
• Java development
• QA and testing

Managing AWS

As more companies look to do business in Amazon's cloud, managing AWS services effectively becomes important. This section will outline areas such as pricing management, support, compliance for the AWS Partner Network and companies within the AWS Marketplace as well as those in vertical market industries.

Recent Definitions

• AWS Landing Zone

  AWS Landing Zone is software provided by Amazon to help AWS customers set up a secure, multi-account AWS environment.

• 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.

• AWS Cost Explorer

  AWS Cost Explorer is a tool provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows users to visualize their AWS usage and bills by service.

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• Perform an AWS security assessment with these tips and tools
• Government Amazon antitrust inquiries scrutinize market dominance
• New AWS cost management tool, instance tactics to cut cloud bills

More Managing AWS Topics

• AWS business continuity services
• AWS case studies and startups
• AWS compliance, governance, privacy and regulations
• AWS industries and vertical markets
• AWS partners and resellers
• AWS pricing, cost and ROI
• AWS support, licensing and SLAs