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DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock: A Comprehensive Demo
Bookmarks DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock Workflow Overview DeepSeek in Amazon Bedrock Pre-requisites Implementation Processes As of January 2025, we’re seeing too much news about DeepSeek AI features in many media outlets, but how about implementing DeepSeek AI and AWS workloads? DeepSeek AI in [...]
PHP-FPM Failures Are Killing Your Uptime – Automate Slack Alerts Before It’s Too Late!
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, where user expectations are at an all-time high, even a few seconds of downtime can have catastrophic consequences. Lost revenue, user dissatisfaction, and damage to your brand reputation are just the tip of the iceberg. If you're still relying on manual methods to monitor [...]
Commanding Genomics: AWS CLI for Bioinformatics Workflows
“This is becoming more troublesome…” I can hear you mumble as you move your mouse to click on the different AWS services you need in the console. As time goes by, it can get tiresome to keep on clicking things for your workflow instead of doing them in just [...]
Simplifying Knowledge Management with a Content Analysis Tool for Confluence
Did you know that organizations spend an average of 19% of their workweek searching for and gathering information? According to research from McKinsey & Company, inefficient knowledge management leads to wasted time and lost productivity—hindering teams from making real progress on meaningful work. (Source, McKinsey) In today’s digital-first environment, [...]
The Path Forward: AI Agents Driving Modern Workflows
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a concept of the future; it's an integral part of today’s digital era. As AI technology advances, businesses and developers increasingly find innovative ways to integrate machine learning into their workflows. One of the most powerful tools in this transformation is the AI [...]
Enhanced Data Processing and Retrieval with Amazon Bedrock’s New Capabilities
Data is at the heart of modern innovation, and the ability to process, analyze, and extract insights from diverse data types is more important than ever. Amazon Bedrock introduces a suite of advanced capabilities designed to simplify data management and enhance AI-driven applications. By automating workflows, integrating multimodal data, [...]
Troubleshooting AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB Connection Issues
Many consider Amazon DynamoDB to be one of the most effective solutions for handling vast amounts of data in the AWS Cloud. Its serverless architecture and highly scalable design ensure reliable performance, making it suitable for applications that demand fast, consistent, and low-latency access to data. DynamoDB's ability to [...]
Automating File Uploads from Slack to Amazon S3: Harnessing AWS Lambda and Slack API
Efficient management and storage of files is vital for any team’s productivity. Automating the process of uploading files from Slack directly to Amazon S3 using AWS Lambda provides a streamlined and secure method for file storage. This integration guarantees that files shared on Slack are systematically stored in a [...]
Unlocking the Secrets of DNA: Analyzing Genomic Data with AWS
Your DNA has the blueprint for your life. Much like everybody else, as it determines everything from our physical characteristics to our susceptibility to diseases. However, there is the challenge of decoding this complexity efficiently and accurately. With AWS HealthOmics—an AWS service for storing, querying, analyzing, and generating insights [...]
Understanding Resource Groups in Azure
Have you ever wondered how to manage and organize resources in the cloud effectively? With over 95% of companies using Microsoft Azure, mastering Resource Groups is crucial for efficient cloud management. Azure Resource Groups are the cornerstone of managing and organizing resources in Microsoft Azure. Whether you're new to [...]

AWS Certified Sysops Administrator Associate (SOA-C02) Exam Experience

I recently took the new AWS Certified SysOps Administrator SOA-C02 exam last week via the Pearson Vue online proctoring. There are a lot of recently introduced features and services that showed up in this new version which you should be aware of. The new version included the new Exam Labs section in the test, which is unique among the other existing AWS certifications. If you’re planning to take this exam soon, read on. At the beginning [...]

Sample SysOps Exam Lab Scenario #1 – Create an Alarm Using a Metric Filter

This sample exam lab was taken from our AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Practice Exams. Check out our practice test course for more exam lab scenarios. LEARNING OBJECTIVE The goal of this lab exercise is to help you understand how you can leverage CloudWatch Logs, CloudWatch Metrics, CloudWatch Alarms, and Amazon SNS services in creating an automated alarm system that can inform you of unusual activity in your AWS cloud environment. TIME: 20 MINUTES [...]

How to Create Wait Conditions in a CloudFormation Template

Wait Conditions, as the name suggests, is a tool used to control the order of creation of the AWS resources in a CloudFormation stack. It can pause the creation of a stack and wait for a signal to ensure that specific resources and configurations were properly launched before resuming the stack creation process. Use cases: For example, you want to make sure that a specific domain name is working before you can conclude that [...]

Multi-Account Multi-Region Data Aggregation On AWS Config

AWS Config is a service that tracks changes made to resources associated with an AWS account. This service can give you a detailed view of the resource configuration’s timeline so you can go back in time and identify when and what resource the change was made into. It also enables you to determine the overall compliance against the rules and configurations specified in your guidelines. This simplifies compliance auditing, security analysis, change management, and [...]

Specifying Triggers for AWS Config Rules

AWS Config allows you to set “rules” to evaluate configuration settings on your AWS resources. The result of these rule evaluations are then displayed on the AWS Config web console. You can control the frequency of rule evaluations by AWS Config by specifying a trigger. A trigger refers to the method of evaluation for your config rules. There are two types of triggers to select from when creating a rule. 1. Configuration Changes When [...]

Setting up AWS Systems Manager for Hybrid Environments

AWS Systems Manager allows your organization to monitor and control their infrastructure on AWS and on-premises environments. Systems Manager provides a unified interface to which you can monitor thousands of servers and services of AWS. Essentially, Systems Manager simplifies resource and application management, shortens the time to detect and resolve operational problems, and makes it easy to operate and manage your infrastructure securely at scale. The following are the capabilities of AWS Systems Manager [...]

Asymmetric vs. Symmetric Encryption KMS Keys

Even before the Internet, the security, privacy, and integrity of information have always been the top concern of institutions like banks, hospitals, and universities. Nobody wants their personal information (name, address, credit card number, etc.) to be exposed in public for anyone to use. Imagine signing up on your favorite social media website, and after a few days, somewhere on the globe has been using your profile and pretending to be you without you [...]

My AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate SOA-C02 BETA Exam Experience in 2021

I took the BETA version of the new AWS Certified SysOps Administrator SOA-C02 exam last week via the Pearson Vue online proctoring. There are a lot of recently-introduced features and services that showed up in this new version which you should be aware of. There is also a new Exam Labs section in the test, which is unique among the other existing AWS certifications. If you’re planning to take this exam soon, read on. [...]

AWS Managed Policies For Job Functions

AWS managed policies for job functions are policies that contain sets of permissions required for a specific job function or role (especially in the IT industry). It is designed to simplify the creation of policies by combining the permissions for many services into a single policy. You can attach these policies for job functions to any group, user, or role. To further understand this, let’s consider the scenario below: Mikee is the new database [...]

My AWS Certified Security Specialty Exam Experience – Tips and Important Notes

My AWS Certified Security Specialty Exam Experience - Tips and Important Notes The AWS Certified Security - Specialty is included in the top 10 Most Popular Cybersecurity Certifications based on Global Knowledge’s 2020 IT Skills and Salary Report. Beating some of the famous security certifications on the list (e.g. CEH, CompTia: Security+) only shows how influential AWS has been to the IT industry in the previous years. Not only Security Professionals can benefit from [...]