How can you know what you don’t know? It sounds like a rhetorical question, but it is in fact a vital component of business strategy. As much as any company or organization can pride itself on its product knowledge and experience, if there are new trends or new competitors out there seeking to steal business […]

Organizations are adopting microservices architectures to build resilient and scalable applications using AWS Lambda. These applications are composed of multiple serverless functions that implement the business logic. Each function is mapped to API endpoints, methods, and resources using services such as Amazon API Gateway and Application Load Balancer. But sometimes all you need is a […]

SQL database corruption is not uncommon. There are many reasons for SQL database corruption, such as virus infection, bugs in the SQL Server, errors during updates, abrupt system shutdowns, etc. Whatever be the cause of corruption and if you’re in danger of losing precious data, all you need is a tool that can do the […]

Data collection is now omnipresent in every sector of the global economy. Several aspects of modern economic activity would not be possible without it, just as it would not be possible without other vital production inputs such as material assets and human capital. Online data collection means having a large pool of data that is […]

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick round up of interesting news and announcements from AWS! Welcome to the April 4 edition of the AWS Week in Review. This week, alongside the main launches, I also captured a couple of new capabilities, such as a […]

Many data scientists prefer to use open-source framework to code scripts; after all, it’s something they already trust to work. Business intelligence tools like Qlik Sense, Power BI, or Tableau, simply don’t seem necessary. However, these same data scientists often see shortcomings in their own approaches – shortcomings that the best BI tools are able […]

In 2018 I wrote about AWS Firewall Manager (Central Management for Your Web Application Portfolio) and showed you how you could host multiple applications, perhaps spanning multiple AWS accounts and regions, while maintaining centralized control over your organization’s security settings and profile. In the same way that Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) supports multiple database […]

Over the last two years, our world experienced a dramatic acceleration of digital transformation. The COVID-19 pandemic upended normal operations for many businesses and shifted the pace of technology adoption into warp speed. Migrating to the cloud became essential for business continuity and was no longer a future plan. As a result, many businesses implemented […]

This post is part of our Week in Review series. Check back each week for a quick round up of interesting news and announcements from AWS! Welcome to another round up of the most significant AWS launches from the previous week. Among the most relevant news, we have improvements done in AWS Lambda, a new […]

Serverless applications are event-driven, using ephemeral compute functions ranging from web APIs, mobile backends, and streaming analytics to data processing stages in machine learning (ML) and high-performance applications. While AWS Lambda includes a 512 MB temporary file system (/tmp) for your code, this is an ephemeral scratch resource not intended for durable storage such as […]