Exploring Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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 Technologi...

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 fo...

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.

There is a new EC2 instance on town.  Welcome the EC2 High Memory Instance type . This EC2 instance support up to 12 Terabytes of memory in a single instance, are EBS optimized by default and includes enhanced networking. These instances use the latest generation 8 socket intel skylight processors. Database administrators who manage large in-memory databases such as SAP HANA would greatly benefit from the use of this type of instance as they are specifically designed to run complex, high performance analytics.  These instances are also certified by SAP to run their data analytics and processing applications. If you want to learn more about this instance type, follow this link:  EC2 High Memory

AWS changes and evolves rapidly and quite often that we are not able to keep up with everything that is released. The " What's New " section of my blog will help everyone get up to speed on what are the new technology releases or changes in the AWS space.  This will also provide a list of upcoming events, and webinars featured by AWS so everyone interested can participate in them. To view the articles,  just click More... and then click What's New. Be sure to check this section often or subscribe to get alerts whenever new articles are posted.

What is IAM? IAM (Identity and Access Management) is a component of AWS which manages Users, Groups, Policies, and Roles to control access permissions to your various services within your AWS environment. Here is where you can create User accounts, add them to groups that have attached permissions to control access or create policies or roles that you can attach to trusted entities to give them access to services within your environment.   For more details on IAM checkout this link:  AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) In this article I will demonstrate how to create an administrator account that you can use to launch services in AWS.  In my previous post I mentioned that it is advised that you do not use your Master or Root account to perform these functions but instead use a separate Administrator account for the purpose of launching services.  The Master account should be used to manage Budgets, setup CloudWatch monitoring and consolidate child account...