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Amazon EFS vs Amazon FSx for Windows vs Amazon FSx for Lustre

2023-04-07T02:31:03+00:00

Amazon EFS Amazon FSx for Windows File Server Amazon FSx for Lustre • Amazon EFS is a serverless, scalable, high-performance, POSIX-compliant file system in the cloud. • EFS file systems can be accessed by Amazon EC2 Linux instances, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, AWS Fargate, and AWS Lambda functions via a file system interface such as NFS protocol. • Amazon EFS supports file system access semantics such as strong consistency and file locking. • EFS file systems can automatically scale in storage to handle petabytes of data. With Bursting mode, the throughput available to a file system scales as a file [...]

Amazon EFS vs Amazon FSx for Windows vs Amazon FSx for Lustre2023-04-07T02:31:03+00:00

How to Create Wait Conditions in a CloudFormation Template

2023-05-02T03:41:59+00:00

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 your application is indeed up and running. Or perhaps, you want to make sure that a particular stack resource can access an external API endpoint (or [...]

How to Create Wait Conditions in a CloudFormation Template2023-05-02T03:41:59+00:00

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams vs Data Firehose vs Data Analytics vs Video Streams

2023-04-07T02:39:06+00:00

  Data Streams Data Firehose Data Analytics Video Streams Short definition Scalable and durable real-time data streaming service. Capture, transform, and deliver streaming data into data lakes, data stores, and analytics services. Transform and analyze streaming data in real time with Apache Flink. Stream video from connected devices to AWS for analytics, machine learning, playback, and other processing. Data sources Any data source (servers, mobile devices, IoT devices, etc) that can call the Kinesis API to send data. Any data source (servers, mobile devices, IoT devices, etc) that can call the Kinesis API to send data. Amazon MSK, Amazon Kinesis [...]

Amazon Kinesis Data Streams vs Data Firehose vs Data Analytics vs Video Streams2023-04-07T02:39:06+00:00

Specifying Triggers for AWS Config Rules

2023-05-02T03:48:17+00:00

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 “configuration changes” is enabled, AWS Config will evaluate the config rule when specific resources are created, changed, or deleted. In simple terms, as the name implies, [...]

Specifying Triggers for AWS Config Rules2023-05-02T03:48:17+00:00

Setting up AWS Systems Manager for Hybrid Environments

2023-05-02T03:53:19+00:00

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 for your Hybrid Environment: Centrally define the configuration options and policies for your managed instances. Automate or schedule a variety of maintenance and deployment tasks. Use [...]

Setting up AWS Systems Manager for Hybrid Environments2023-05-02T03:53:19+00:00

Symmetric vs. Asymmetric CMKs

2023-05-02T03:55:07+00:00

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 knowing! Or maybe you’ve been using your credit card for shopping online and suddenly, your bank is sending you email reports for fraudulent activities on your [...]

Symmetric vs. Asymmetric CMKs2023-05-02T03:55:07+00:00

Amazon Textract

2023-02-28T02:17:44+00:00

Amazon Textract Cheat Sheet A fully managed document analysis service for detecting and extracting information from scanned documents. Returns extracted data as key-value pairs (e.g., Name: John Doe) Supports virtually any type of documents Can detect text written in Standard English alphabet and ASCII symbols. Common Use Cases: Building search indexes Importing documents into a business application Building automated document processing solutions Text extraction for Natural Language Processing (NLP) Applications Maintaining document compliance Concepts Amazon Textract returns a confidence score for each identified element, which indicates the probability that a given prediction is correct. A low-confidence score can be rerouted [...]

Amazon Textract2023-02-28T02:17:44+00:00

Amazon Augmented AI (A2I)

2023-06-23T07:20:46+00:00

Amazon Augmented AI Cheat Sheet Amazon A2I is a service that helps you easily integrate human reviews in a machine learning workflow. Simplifies managing a large number of human reviewers at scale. Has direct integration with Amazon Textract and Amazon Rekognition Common Use Cases: Content Moderation where human oversight is required to judge uncertain results from a machine learning model. Manual reviews of low confidence predictions due to documents that are scanned poorly or contain bad handwriting.  Concepts Task Type Type of task to be reviewed. Available task types Key-value pairs extracted by Amazon Textract Unsafe content flagged by Amazon [...]

Amazon Augmented AI (A2I)2023-06-23T07:20:46+00:00

AWS Managed Policies For Job Functions

2023-05-02T03:57:38+00:00

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 administrator of a social media startup that leverages on Amazon Web Services. She was assigned to configure the minimum set of permissions in IAM so she [...]

AWS Managed Policies For Job Functions2023-05-02T03:57:38+00:00

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