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New Amazon grocery stores run on computer vision, apps
Amazon dives deeper into the grocery business with its first 'new concept' grocery store, driven by automation, computer vision and sensors.
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- Amazon's sustainability initiatives: Half empty or half full?
Amazon's public perception and investment profile are at stake as altruism and self-interest mix in its efforts to become a more sustainable company.
- How Amazon launched the warehouse robotics industry
In 2012, the warehouse robotics industry consisted of Kiva Systems, the sole supplier to serve all e-commerce companies. When Amazon devoured Kiva, a wellspring of startups bubbled up in response.
- Learn the scope of Amazon subscription services
Prime is just one of Amazon's many membership offerings. Learn the features and fees of Amazon subscriptions to understand this business unit.
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- Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud storage service.
- 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 VPC traffic mirroring
Traffic mirroring is a feature for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). The feature is used to monitor the network-level traffic of workloads.
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AWS databases and analytics
Amazon Web Services provides companies with several database and analytics tools such as Amazon Kinesis, AWS Data Pipeline, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB and Amazon EMR on Hadoop. Amazon's database tools can help consumers create value through the use of data analytics for applications like log analysis, Web indexing, and data warehousing.
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- data lake
A data lake is a storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its native format until it is needed.
- Amazon QLDB
Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (QLDB) is a non-relational database as a service (DBaaS) designed for AWS customers who want to maintain a verifiable history of data changes in an application they own.
- Amazon Aurora
Amazon Aurora is a relational database engine from Amazon Web Services. The engine is MySQL-compatible, which means code, applications and drivers used in databases relying on MySQL can be used in Aurora with minimal or no changes.
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- Set up a Jupyter notebook on AWS with this tutorial
- Set up a data lake on AWS with Lake Formation
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- AWS big data and data analytics
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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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- What is public cloud? Everything you need to know
A public cloud is a platform that uses the standard cloud computing model to make resources -- such as virtual machines (VMs), applications or storage -- available to users remotely.
- Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) is a scalable, high-speed, web-based cloud storage service.
- Amazon VPC traffic mirroring
Traffic mirroring is a feature for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). The feature is used to monitor the network-level traffic of workloads.
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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
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- 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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- New Amazon grocery stores run on computer vision, apps
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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Back to TopAWS 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.
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- 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.
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- AWS month in review: An AWS re:Invent recap of overlooked roll outs
- AWS AI tools focus on developers
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- AWS application lifecycle management (ALM) tools
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- 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.
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- 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
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- AWS business continuity services
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- AWS compliance, governance, privacy and regulations
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- AWS support, licensing and SLAs