About 15 years ago, I joined a challenge to list “a favorite album for every year of your life”. The challenge had two restrictions – I added another for myself: Only one album per year No repeat artists Must own the album The last restriction was a fun idea at the time, but owning physical […]

When you think of speech recognition and the ability of computers to recognize words, you probably think of modern devices such as Siri and Alexa. You wouldn’t be wrong, and the market for such software is constantly growing. The first speech-recognition machine ever was introduced by IBM in the distant year of 1962. This machine, […]

We are half way between the re:Invent conference and the end-of-year holidays, and I did expect the cadence of releases and news to slow down a bit, but nothing is further away from reality. Our teams continue to listen to your feedback and release new capabilities and incremental improvements. This week, many items caught my […]

Amazon SageMaker Canvas provides business analysts with a visual interface to solve business problems using machine learning (ML) without writing a single line of code. Since we introduced SageMaker Canvas in 2021, many users have asked us for an enhanced, seamless collaboration experience that enables data scientists to share trained models with their business analysts […]

What is Network Security? Network security is a strategic approach to securing an organization’s resources and data across the corporate network. It helps protect organizations of all sizes, industries, and infrastructure against cybersecurity threats and unauthorized access. Network security strategies incorporate various technologies, processes, and devices, using rules and configurations to protect specific computer networks […]

Starting in April of 2023 we will be making two changes to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to put our latest best practices for bucket security into effect automatically. The changes will begin to go into effect in April and will be rolled out to all AWS Regions within weeks. Once the changes are […]

The future of our world will be built on a new universe of connectivity as seen through extended reality (XR), the metaverse, and enterprise applications. Advanced network capabilities and 5G will bring to life a sustainable future for navigating a hybrid world. Ronald van Loon is an Ericsson ambassador, and is collaborating with the Ericsson […]

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS! The world is asynchronous, is what Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO, reminded us during his keynote last week at AWS re:Invent. At the beginning of the keynote, he showed us how […]

(Updated: December 9th, 2022 ) Cyber-attacks on businesses have become common place. In fact, it’s estimated that a cyber-attack occurs every 39 seconds. Who are the targets of these attacks? You might think that it’s large corporations and, in a way, you’d be correct. Cybercriminals are smart, though, and know that large corporations invest millions […]

Businesses and government organizations have realized that 100% cloud sovereignty is necessary. What is 100% cloud sovereignty? Why can you ignore it when moving to the cloud? This post uncovers the aspects of sovereign cloud and how businesses can ensure they meet all regulatory requirements to deliver a seamless customer experience. We must realize that […]