Cloud Providers / AWS - 5 years ago
Late last year I told you about Amazon EC2 P3 instances and also spent some time discussing the concept of the Tensor Core, a specialized compute unit that is designed to accelerate machine learning training and inferencing for large, deep neural net...
Cloud Providers / AWS - 5 years ago
Back in 2015 we launched the AWS Well-Architected Framework and I asked Are You Well-Architected? The framework includes five pillars that encapsulate a set of core strategies and best practices for architecting systems in the cloud: Operational Exc...
Cloud Providers / AWS - 5 years ago
I remember the excitement& when AWS Lambda was announced in 2014!& Four years on, customers& are using Lambda functions for many different use cases. For example, iRobot is using AWS Lambda to& provide compute services for their&...
Cloud Providers / AWS - 5 years ago
AWS Step Functions is a fully managed workflow service for application developers. You can think & work at a high level, connecting and coordinating activities in a reliable and repeatable way, while keeping your business logic separate from your...
Cloud Providers / AWS - 5 years ago
Software developers have their own preferred tools. Some use powerful editors, others& Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) that are tailored for specific languages and platforms. In 2014 I created my first AWS Lambda function using the edi...
Cloud Providers / AWS - 5 years ago
As you know, you can easily build highly scalable AWS applications that launch fresh EC2 instances on an as-needed basis. While the instances can be up and running in a matter of seconds, booting the operating system and the application can take cons...
Cloud Providers / AWS - 5 years ago
When you make use of commercial, licensed software in the AWS Cloud using a BYOL (Bring Your Own License) strategy, you need to make sure that you stay within the provisions of the license, while also avoiding expensive over-provisioning. This can be...
Cloud Providers / AWS - 5 years ago
As promised in Welcome to AWS re:Invent 2018, here’s a summary of the launches, previews, and pre-announcements from Andy Jassy’s keynote. I have included links to allow you to sign up for previews, as appropriate. (photo from AWS Community Hero E...