Exploring Amazon Web Services (AWS)

A VPC is your very own private cloud within AWS.  Think of it as a DataCenter that you build with your own specifications and will be the place you build and deploy your cloud environment. In this article, I will teach you how to create a Custom VPC within AWS.  Please note that this is different from the default VPCs that AWS creates for you when you setup an account. What you will need: 1. An AWS account ( Creating and AWS Free Tier account ) 2. Location of your target end users 3. Number of Private and/or Public subnets required 4. A Network CIDR range of your choice depending on your requirements There are 2 ways to create VPCs. 1. Using the VPC Wizard 2. Creating VPC from scratch For demonstration purposes let us assume these requirements:  1. End users are located in the US Northern Virginia 2. You need 1 Private subnet with outbound access to the internet and 1 Public subnet 3. CIDR 10.0.0.0/16 Method 1: Creating a VPC using the VPC Wizard 1. Login to the A

AWSome Day is back in Calgary my friends!  The Date is June 13, 2019 Thursday.   Time to get that date blocked off and reserved so you can spend a whole day learning about the Core AWS Services. For those of you who have missed last year's event.  Now is the time to register and be part of this all day free event hosted by AWS. About the event: This will be a one-day introduction and training on the CORE AWS Services namely: Compute Storage Database Networking The services' key features will be discussed as well as an overview of practical application through use cases.  Industry best practices will also be shared and technical demos on how to build out and configure the services will be provided. Who should join the event: IT Infrastructure managers considering Cloud Adoption Enterprise Architects and Solutions Architects Project Managers who manage Cloud based projects Systems and Network Administrators and Analysts Datacenter Administrators and Ana

Good new my fellow Calgarians! AWS is hosting a full day technical event here in Calgary. The details of the event are as follows: Date: April 30, 2019 (Tuesday) Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (Mountain Time) Location: Delta Hotel by Marriott - Downtown Calgary                  209 4th Ave SE, Calgary AB T2G 0C6 ( view map ) Additional info:   This is an all day free event.  breakfast and lunch will be provided. What to expect from the event: In this event you will get a chance to build Intelligent Data Lakes using AWS Big Data & Analytics and AI/ML Services that you can definitely take back and use in your organization.  There will be multiple Deep dive sessions on the related services as well as workshops to allow you to have a hands on feel of the technology. By the end of the day,  you would have built yourself a functional cloud-native and future-proof Serverless data lake architecture. AWS Technologies that will be discussed: Amazon Kinesis Firehose AWS Glue

AWS makes it easy for you to learn more through hosted Events, Seminars, Webinars and Training.  Here you will find a list of upcoming events that I'm sure you will be interested with.

It has been a while since I last posted the list of AWS Services.  Since then, there has been significant changes in their service offerings.  Here is a list of all the changes and new services released to date. It's been organized by Categories for you. AWS Game Development: -  No changes or additional new services AWS IoT - IoT Device Defender - IoT Events - IoT SiteWise - IoT Things Graph AWS Desktop & App Streaming (Now: End User Computing) - WorkDocs - WorkLink AWS Business Productivity (Now: Business Applications) -  WorkDocs has been removed from this category and transferred to End User Computing AWS Customer Engagement -  No changes or additional new services AWS Application Integration Services -  No changes or additional new services AWS AR & VR Services -  No changes or additional new services AWS Mobile Services - AWS Amplify - Mobile SDK for Android - Mobile SDK for iOS - Mobile SDK for Unity - Mobile SDK for Xamarin - Pinpoi

To refresh your knowledge.  Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL compatible relational database built for the cloud.  It combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. The release of this new feature (Parallel Query) provides the benefit of being able to process queries twice the order of magnitude faster by running the queries in parallel. At the moment, it is only available for the MySQL compatible edition and would need to be enabled upon the initial creation of your Aurora database clusters.