This week, it was really difficult to choose what to recap here because, as we’re getting closer to AWS re:Invent, service teams are delivering new capabilities at an incredible pace. Last week’s launches Here are some of the launches that caught my attention last week: Amazon Aurora – Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift …
The number one question we get all the time: “Why do I need to back up my Microsoft 365 Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Microsoft Teams data?” And it’s normally instantaneously followed up with a statement similar to this: “Microsoft takes care of it.” Do they? Are you sure? To add some …
With Amazon SQS, you can send and receive messages between software components at any scale. It was one of the first AWS services I used and as a Solutions Architect, I helped many customers take advantage of asynchronous communications using message queues. In fact, Amazon SQS has been generally available since July 2006 and, under …
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You now have the ability to disable public sharing of new, and optionally existing, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots on a per-region, per-account basis. This provides you with another level of protection against accidental or inadvertent data leakage. EBS Snapshot Review You have had the power to create EBS snapshots since the launch …
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With Amazon Comprehend, you can extract insights from text without being a machine learning expert. Using its built-in models, Comprehend can analyze the syntax of your input documents and find entities, events, key phrases, personally identifiable information (PII), and the overall sentiment or sentiments associated with specific entities (such as brands or products). Today, we …
We are announcing new features in AWS Health to help you manage planned lifecycle events for your AWS resources and dynamically track the completion of actions that your team takes at the resource-level to ensure continued smooth operations of your applications. Some examples of planned lifecycle events are an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) …
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AWS cost management is key for meeting your business needs with the cloud, and luckily there are many tips and tricks for optimal spend. If you are looking to learn how to leverage AWS cost optimization tools, evaluating existing practices, and learning to maintain performance and functionality over time (while paying less!), then you should …
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Introduction In an era where data drives business decisions and customer interactions, Salesforce has become indispensable for many organizations. However, the importance of safeguarding this invaluable asset cannot be overstated. This guide serves as a comprehensive resource for mastering the intricacies of backing up and restoring data in Salesforce. The Critical Role of Salesforce Data …
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“Data is at the center of every application, process, and business decision,” wrote Swami Sivasubramanian, VP of Database, Analytics, and Machine Learning at AWS, and I couldn’t agree more. A common pattern customers use today is to build data pipelines to move data from Amazon Aurora to Amazon Redshift. These solutions help them gain insights …
Amazon Aurora MySQL zero-ETL integration with Amazon Redshift is now generally available Read More »
Amazon Data Lifecycle Manager now supports the use of pre-snapshot and post-snapshot scripts embedded in AWS Systems Manager documents. You can use these scripts to ensure that Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshots created by Data Lifecycle Manager are application-consistent. Scripts can pause and resume I/O operations, flush buffered data to EBS volumes, and …
