Relational Databases Redefined on AWS
- Amazon RDS is a fully managed relational database service that allows customers to focus on their applications instead of managing databases.
- It offers choices of database engines like MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server with options for different editions and versions. Deploying a database with RDS takes just a few clicks.
- RDS handles common administrative tasks automatically like provisioning, backups, patching, and performance management, requiring near zero administration. It provides high availability, security, and scalability.
AWS Webcast - Amazon RDS - Running Low Admin High Performance Databases in th...Amazon Web Services
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and re-sizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business.
AWS Webcast - Introduction to Amazon RDS: Low Admin, High Performance Databas...Amazon Web Services
Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business.
In this webinar we review how to move your existing databases to RDS with minimum disruption. We will also cover how to deploy very high performance databases on the cloud. And finally, we will provide examples of how customers have successfully deployed high performance databases using RDS.
(DAT303) Oracle on AWS and Amazon RDS: Secure, Fast, and ScalableAmazon Web Services
AWS and Amazon RDS provide advanced features and architectures that enable graceful migration, high performance, elastic scaling, and high availability for Oracle database workloads. Learn best practices for realizing the benefits of the cloud while reducing costs, by running Oracle on AWS in a variety of single- and multi-instance topologies. This session teaches you to take advantage of features unique to AWS and Amazon RDS to free your databases from the confines of the conventional data center.
by Joyjeet Banerjee, Enterprise Solution Architect, AWS
Amazon RDS allows you to launch an optimally configured, secure and highly available database with just a few clicks. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you to focus on your applications and business. We’ll discuss Amazon RDS fundamentals, learn about the seven available database engines, and examine customer success stories. Level 100
It’s been an exciting year for Amazon Aurora, the database with MySQL-compatible and PostgreSQL-compatible database engines. Amazon Aurora combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. In this deep dive session, we’ll discuss best practices and explore new features, including high availability options, new integrations with AWS services, and the performance management with Amazon RDS Performance Insights.
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Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and re-sizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business.
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(DAT303) Oracle on AWS and Amazon RDS: Secure, Fast, and ScalableAmazon Web Services
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It’s been an exciting year for Amazon Aurora, the database with MySQL-compatible and PostgreSQL-compatible database engines. Amazon Aurora combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. In this deep dive session, we’ll discuss best practices and explore new features, including high availability options, new integrations with AWS services, and the performance management with Amazon RDS Performance Insights.
Today, it is critical that IT teams are able to easily, consistently deploy to production. Running Docker containers on Amazon Web Services makes it possible to engineer a compliant and DevOps-friendly environment from the ground up. Spring Venture Group successfully migrated to AWS with Docker containers and leveraged Logicworks to migrate to AWS and automate infrastructure build-out and deployment. Join our webinar to learn how Spring Venture Group, an innovative insurance brokerage, reduced risk and improved deployment velocity with Logicworks, AWS, and Docker.
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In the past year, Amazon RDS has continued to expand functionality, scalability, availability and ease of use for all supported database engines: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server. We’ll take a close look at RDS use cases and new capabilities, splitting the time between open-source and commercial database engines.
AWS Webcast - Intro to DevOps: Using Amazon RDS with AWS OpsWorksAmazon Web Services
You can now use RDS with AWS OpsWorks, an application deployment and management service. OpsWorks allows you to incorporate DevOps practices to seamlessly deploy code and operate services. DevOps focuses on collaborating across development and operations facilitating continuous software delivery, shared code bases, and automated deploys, which results in faster delivery of features and more stable operating environments. OpsWorks automates deployments and standardizes production environments, a key aspect of DevOps. What this means for an RDS user is OpsWorks can scale your EC2 application servers according to demand and ensure it has the most current code base deployed. It can automatically configure and connect your new server to your RDS database. OpsWorks will ensure consistent provisioning of your resources with no manual configuring.
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AWS customers have been asking us for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and we’re excited to announce its immediate availability. Learn how you can offload the management of your PostgreSQL database instances to Amazon RDS using automated backups and point-in-time recovery, Multi-AZ deployments for high availability, and provisioned IOPS for fast and predictable performance. Also learn how to take advantage of familiar PostgreSQL features such as PostGIS with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.
Amazon RDS allows you to launch an optimally configured, secure and highly available database with just a few clicks. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business. We’ll discuss Amazon RDS fundamentals, learn about the six available database engines (with the seventh on the way), and examine customer success stories.
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As both new and established businesses work to increase their customer numbers, revenue and relevance to the market – they are working to deliver software that scales larger than ever before. The challenge of being the "victim of your own success" be it from viral marketing, social media or simply dramatic uptake of a new service; is something that troubles the minds of CIOs and Engineers alike. This session will focus on ways to avoid creating "technical debt" during initial development, and will share well established practices and approaches to building applications that can tolerate and revel in the challenges of scaling to "web scale". Working through a range of architectural dimensions, patterns and pithy examples – attendees will leave this session with useful ideas on how to design new applications, as well as the "retro-fitting" that can be done to existing applications to enable them to scale on AWS.
Amazon RDS & Amazon Aurora: Relational Databases on AWS - SRV206 - Atlanta AW...Amazon Web Services
In this session, learn about the managed relational database services Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora. Amazon RDS enables you to launch an optimally configured, secure, and highly available relational database with just a few clicks, and it has seven popular database engines to choose from. Amazon Aurora is a relational database built for the cloud and provides high availability, high performance, and full compatibility with MySQL and PostgreSQL. We take a closer look at how Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora work, and we cover some of the key innovations in the Aurora database engine and storage layers. We also describe recently announced features, such as Aurora Serverless, Aurora Multi-Master, and Aurora Parallel Query.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. This session introduces you to Amazon Aurora, explains common use cases for the service, and helps you get started with building your first Amazon Aurora–powered application.
Amazon RDS enables you to launch an optimally configured, secure, and highly available relational database with just a few clicks. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time consuming administration tasks, freeing you to focus on your applications and business. In this session, we take a closer look at how Amazon RDS works, and we review best practices to achieve performance, flexibility, and cost savings for your MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, Oracle, and SQL Server databases on Amazon RDS. We also discuss AWS Database Migration Service, a quick and secure means for migrating your existing relational database management system investments to Amazon RDS.
Deep Dive on Amazon EC2 Instances - January 2017 AWS Online Tech TalksAmazon Web Services
Amazon EC2 provides a broad selection of instance types to accommodate a diverse mix of workloads. In this session, we provide an overview of the Amazon EC2 instance platform, key platform features, and the concept of instance generations. We dive into the current generation design choices of the different instance families, including the General Purpose, Compute Optimized, Storage Optimized, Memory Optimized, and GPU instance families. We will also provide an overview of the newest instances announced at re:Invent, including the latest generation of Memory and Compute Optimized Instances R4 and C5 instances, new Storage Optimized High I/O I3 instances, and new larger T2 instances. We also detail best practices and share performance tips for getting the most out of your Amazon EC2 instances.
Learning Objectives:
• Get an overview of the EC2 instance platform, key platform features, and the concept of instance generations
• Learn about the latest generation of Amazon EC2 Instances
• Learn best practices around instance selection to optimize performance
For people who start to create a cloud service, it’s really important to know how to create a scalable cloud service to fit the growth of the future workloads. In this session, we will introduce how to design a scalable cloud service including AWS services introduction and best practices.
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AWS Summit Sydney 2014 | Running Complex Enterprise Workloads on AWS - Sessio...Amazon Web Services
In the near future the majority of enterprise workloads will be running on public cloud platforms like AWS. In this session Fronde - an organisation with six years experience with AWS - will describe their approach to enterprise IT liberation; how to go about moving your complex workloads and strategies to overcome potential obstacles. We’ll demonstrate how we’ve moved traditional on-premise Citrix Virtual Desktop up to AWS to realise a Digital Workspace for the future that delivers real business value.
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This webinar covers both introductory as well as advanced topics related to ElastiCache and is intended for current memcached users as well as those already using ElastiCache. During this session we will go over various scenarios and use-cases that can benefit by enabling caching, discuss the features provided by ElastiCache, and review best-practices, design patterns, and anti-patterns related to ElastiCache. The webinar will also include a demo where we enable ElastiCache for a web application and show the resulting performance improvements.
Today, it is critical that IT teams are able to easily, consistently deploy to production. Running Docker containers on Amazon Web Services makes it possible to engineer a compliant and DevOps-friendly environment from the ground up. Spring Venture Group successfully migrated to AWS with Docker containers and leveraged Logicworks to migrate to AWS and automate infrastructure build-out and deployment. Join our webinar to learn how Spring Venture Group, an innovative insurance brokerage, reduced risk and improved deployment velocity with Logicworks, AWS, and Docker.
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AWS Webcast - Intro to DevOps: Using Amazon RDS with AWS OpsWorksAmazon Web Services
You can now use RDS with AWS OpsWorks, an application deployment and management service. OpsWorks allows you to incorporate DevOps practices to seamlessly deploy code and operate services. DevOps focuses on collaborating across development and operations facilitating continuous software delivery, shared code bases, and automated deploys, which results in faster delivery of features and more stable operating environments. OpsWorks automates deployments and standardizes production environments, a key aspect of DevOps. What this means for an RDS user is OpsWorks can scale your EC2 application servers according to demand and ensure it has the most current code base deployed. It can automatically configure and connect your new server to your RDS database. OpsWorks will ensure consistent provisioning of your resources with no manual configuring.
Introducing Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL (DAT210) | AWS re:Invent 2013Amazon Web Services
AWS customers have been asking us for Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and we’re excited to announce its immediate availability. Learn how you can offload the management of your PostgreSQL database instances to Amazon RDS using automated backups and point-in-time recovery, Multi-AZ deployments for high availability, and provisioned IOPS for fast and predictable performance. Also learn how to take advantage of familiar PostgreSQL features such as PostGIS with Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL.
Amazon RDS allows you to launch an optimally configured, secure and highly available database with just a few clicks. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while managing time-consuming database administration tasks, freeing you up to focus on your applications and business. We’ll discuss Amazon RDS fundamentals, learn about the six available database engines (with the seventh on the way), and examine customer success stories.
ARC205 Building Web-scale Applications Architectures with AWS - AWS re: Inven...Amazon Web Services
As both new and established businesses work to increase their customer numbers, revenue and relevance to the market – they are working to deliver software that scales larger than ever before. The challenge of being the "victim of your own success" be it from viral marketing, social media or simply dramatic uptake of a new service; is something that troubles the minds of CIOs and Engineers alike. This session will focus on ways to avoid creating "technical debt" during initial development, and will share well established practices and approaches to building applications that can tolerate and revel in the challenges of scaling to "web scale". Working through a range of architectural dimensions, patterns and pithy examples – attendees will leave this session with useful ideas on how to design new applications, as well as the "retro-fitting" that can be done to existing applications to enable them to scale on AWS.
Amazon RDS & Amazon Aurora: Relational Databases on AWS - SRV206 - Atlanta AW...Amazon Web Services
In this session, learn about the managed relational database services Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora. Amazon RDS enables you to launch an optimally configured, secure, and highly available relational database with just a few clicks, and it has seven popular database engines to choose from. Amazon Aurora is a relational database built for the cloud and provides high availability, high performance, and full compatibility with MySQL and PostgreSQL. We take a closer look at how Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora work, and we cover some of the key innovations in the Aurora database engine and storage layers. We also describe recently announced features, such as Aurora Serverless, Aurora Multi-Master, and Aurora Parallel Query.
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible database engine that combines the speed and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases. This session introduces you to Amazon Aurora, explains common use cases for the service, and helps you get started with building your first Amazon Aurora–powered application.
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AWS Webcast - Accelerating Application Performance Using In-Memory Caching in...Amazon Web Services
This webinar covers both introductory as well as advanced topics related to ElastiCache and is intended for current memcached users as well as those already using ElastiCache. During this session we will go over various scenarios and use-cases that can benefit by enabling caching, discuss the features provided by ElastiCache, and review best-practices, design patterns, and anti-patterns related to ElastiCache. The webinar will also include a demo where we enable ElastiCache for a web application and show the resulting performance improvements.
(SPOT211) State of the Union: Amazon Compute Services | AWS re:Invent 2014Amazon Web Services
Join Peter De Santis, Vice President of Amazon Compute Services, and Matt Garman, Vice President of Amazon EC2 as they share a ''behind the scenes'' look at the evolution of compute at AWS. You hear about the drivers behind the innovations we've introduced, and learn how we've scaled our compute services to meet dramatic usage growth.
AWS Summit 2014 Melbourne - Breakout 1
Amazon Workspaces is a new service from AWS that delivery fully managed desktops in the Cloud. In this session you be able to learn more about the benefits and capabilities of Workspaces and see a demo of the user's experience when using Workspaces and the administrators experience in managing it.
Presenter: Dean Samuels, Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services
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State, Local and Education customers are using the AWS cloud to enable faster disaster recovery of their mission critical IT systems without incurring the infrastructure expense of a second physical site. This presentation shares informative on how AWS cloud supports many popular disaster recovery (DR) architectures from “pilot light” environments that are ready to scale up at a moment’s notice to “hot standby” environments that enable rapid failover. With infrastructure centers in 10 regions around the world, AWS provides a set of cloud-based DR services that enable rapid recovery of your IT infrastructure and data.
Are you looking to automate backup and archiving of your business-critical data workloads? Attend this session to understand key use cases, best practices, and considerations for protecting your data with AWS and CommVault. This session will feature lessons learned from CommVault customers that have: migrated onsite backup data into Amazon S3 to reduce hardware footprint and improve recoverability; implemented data-tiering and archived data in Amazon Glacier for long term retention and compliance; performed snapshot-based protection and recovery for applications running in Amazon EC2; and, provisioned and managed VMs in Amazon EC2.
Speaker: Michael Porfirio, Director Systems Engineering, CommVault
AWS Lambda is a new compute service that runs your code in response to events and automatically manages the compute resources for you. AWS Lambda enables powerful application architectures that simplify and accelerate development of connected applications. Together with Amazon Cognito, AWS SNS Push Notifications and AWS DynamoDB, AWS Lambda is a powerful tool in your arsenal for developing IoT/mobile apps, and beyond. This session will show you how to get started quickly by covering key architectural design concepts and demonstrating the use of the AWS SDKs to simplify creating powerful applications for the always-on world that connects beyond the desktop.
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You don’t need to be a security expert to protect your organizations data in the cloud. You don’t need to be a security expert to protect your workloads on AWS. You just need to be informed of the many security tools available in AWS, and learn how to use them.
Taking a highly automated approach to security, you can use key features of the AWS Cloud to transform security in your organization. As with infrastructure as an API, security as an API allows you to move rapidly & stay secure. From AWS security groups, to virtual private networks, to security tools, you need to learn how to automate and accelerate.
In this talk, you’ll see how various AWS features and cloud-aware security controls can work together to protect your deployments. Using real-world examples, you’ll come away with an understanding of steps you can take to ensure that you maximize the security of your deployment while minimizing the work it takes to keep it secure.
You will learn a logical approach to modern security that you can immediately apply to your own AWS deployments. You will learn how to use security tools and techniques to help you build with confidence.
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In addition to running databases in Amazon EC2, AWS customers can choose among a variety of managed database services. These services save effort, save time, and unlock new capabilities and economies. In this session, we make it easy to understand how they differ, what they have in common, and how to choose one or more. We explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service; Amazon RDS, a relational database service in the cloud; Amazon ElastiCache, a fast, in-memory caching service in the cloud; and Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data-warehouse solution that can be surprisingly economical. We will cover how each service might help support your application, how much each service costs, and how to get started.
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In addition to running databases in Amazon EC2, AWS customers can choose among a variety of managed database services. These services save effort, save time, and unlock new capabilities and economies. In this session, we make it easy to understand how they differ, what they have in common, and how to choose one or more. We explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service; Amazon RDS, a relational database service in the cloud; Amazon ElastiCache, a fast, in-memory caching service in the cloud; and Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data-warehouse solution that can be surprisingly economical. We will cover how each service might help support your application, how much each service costs, and how to get started.
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In addition to running databases in Amazon EC2, AWS customers can choose among a variety of managed database services. These services save effort, save time, and unlock new capabilities and economies. In this session, we make it easy to understand how they differ, what they have in common, and how to choose one or more. We explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service; Amazon RDS, a relational database service in the cloud; and Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data-warehouse solution that can be surprisingly economical. We will cover how each service might help support your application and how to get started.
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In addition to running databases in Amazon EC2, AWS customers can choose among a variety of managed database services. These services save effort, save time, and unlock new capabilities and economies. In this session, we make it easy to understand how they differ, what they have in common, and how to choose one or more. We explain the fundamentals of Amazon DynamoDB, a fully managed NoSQL database service; Amazon RDS, a relational database service in the cloud; Amazon ElastiCache, a fast, in-memory caching service in the cloud; and Amazon Redshift, a fully managed, petabyte-scale data-warehouse solution that can be surprisingly economical. We’ll cover how each service might help support your application, how much each service costs, and how to get started.
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Vediamo quindi come è possibile sviluppare applicazioni Big Data rapidamente, senza preoccuparci dell’infrastruttura, ma dedicando tutte le risorse allo sviluppo delle nostre le nostre idee per creare prodotti innovativi.
Ora puoi utilizzare Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) per eseguire pod Kubernetes su AWS Fargate, il motore di elaborazione serverless creato per container su AWS. Questo rende più semplice che mai costruire ed eseguire le tue applicazioni Kubernetes nel cloud AWS.In questa sessione presenteremo le caratteristiche principali del servizio e come distribuire la tua applicazione in pochi passaggi
Vent'anni fa Amazon ha attraversato una trasformazione radicale con l'obiettivo di aumentare il ritmo dell'innovazione. In questo periodo abbiamo imparato come cambiare il nostro approccio allo sviluppo delle applicazioni ci ha permesso di aumentare notevolmente l'agilità, la velocità di rilascio e, in definitiva, ci ha consentito di creare applicazioni più affidabili e scalabili. In questa sessione illustreremo come definiamo le applicazioni moderne e come la creazione di app moderne influisce non solo sull'architettura dell'applicazione, ma sulla struttura organizzativa, sulle pipeline di rilascio dello sviluppo e persino sul modello operativo. Descriveremo anche approcci comuni alla modernizzazione, compreso l'approccio utilizzato dalla stessa Amazon.com.
Come spendere fino al 90% in meno con i container e le istanze spot Amazon Web Services
L’utilizzo dei container è in continua crescita.
Se correttamente disegnate, le applicazioni basate su Container sono molto spesso stateless e flessibili.
I servizi AWS ECS, EKS e Kubernetes su EC2 possono sfruttare le istanze Spot, portando ad un risparmio medio del 70% rispetto alle istanze On Demand. In questa sessione scopriremo insieme quali sono le caratteristiche delle istanze Spot e come possono essere utilizzate facilmente su AWS. Impareremo inoltre come Spreaker sfrutta le istanze spot per eseguire applicazioni di diverso tipo, in produzione, ad una frazione del costo on-demand!
In recent months, many customers have been asking us the question – how to monetise Open APIs, simplify Fintech integrations and accelerate adoption of various Open Banking business models. Therefore, AWS and FinConecta would like to invite you to Open Finance marketplace presentation on October 20th.
Event Agenda :
Open banking so far (short recap)
• PSD2, OB UK, OB Australia, OB LATAM, OB Israel
Intro to Open Finance marketplace
• Scope
• Features
• Tech overview and Demo
The role of the Cloud
The Future of APIs
• Complying with regulation
• Monetizing data / APIs
• Business models
• Time to market
One platform for all: a Strategic approach
Q&A
Rendi unica l’offerta della tua startup sul mercato con i servizi Machine Lea...Amazon Web Services
Per creare valore e costruire una propria offerta differenziante e riconoscibile, le startup di successo sanno come combinare tecnologie consolidate con componenti innovativi creati ad hoc.
AWS fornisce servizi pronti all'utilizzo e, allo stesso tempo, permette di personalizzare e creare gli elementi differenzianti della propria offerta.
Concentrandoci sulle tecnologie di Machine Learning, vedremo come selezionare i servizi di intelligenza artificiale offerti da AWS e, anche attraverso una demo, come costruire modelli di Machine Learning personalizzati utilizzando SageMaker Studio.
OpsWorks Configuration Management: automatizza la gestione e i deployment del...Amazon Web Services
Con l'approccio tradizionale al mondo IT per molti anni è stato difficile implementare tecniche di DevOps, che finora spesso hanno previsto attività manuali portando di tanto in tanto a dei downtime degli applicativi interrompendo l'operatività dell'utente. Con l'avvento del cloud, le tecniche di DevOps sono ormai a portata di tutti a basso costo per qualsiasi genere di workload, garantendo maggiore affidabilità del sistema e risultando in dei significativi miglioramenti della business continuity.
AWS mette a disposizione AWS OpsWork come strumento di Configuration Management che mira ad automatizzare e semplificare la gestione e i deployment delle istanze EC2 per mezzo di workload Chef e Puppet.
Scopri come sfruttare AWS OpsWork a garanzia e affidabilità del tuo applicativo installato su Instanze EC2.
Microsoft Active Directory su AWS per supportare i tuoi Windows WorkloadsAmazon Web Services
Vuoi conoscere le opzioni per eseguire Microsoft Active Directory su AWS? Quando si spostano carichi di lavoro Microsoft in AWS, è importante considerare come distribuire Microsoft Active Directory per supportare la gestione, l'autenticazione e l'autorizzazione dei criteri di gruppo. In questa sessione, discuteremo le opzioni per la distribuzione di Microsoft Active Directory su AWS, incluso AWS Directory Service per Microsoft Active Directory e la distribuzione di Active Directory su Windows su Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Trattiamo argomenti quali l'integrazione del tuo ambiente Microsoft Active Directory locale nel cloud e l'utilizzo di applicazioni SaaS, come Office 365, con AWS Single Sign-On.
Dal riconoscimento facciale al riconoscimento di frodi o difetti di fabbricazione, l'analisi di immagini e video che sfruttano tecniche di intelligenza artificiale, si stanno evolvendo e raffinando a ritmi elevati. In questo webinar esploreremo le possibilità messe a disposizione dai servizi AWS per applicare lo stato dell'arte delle tecniche di computer vision a scenari reali.
Amazon Web Services e VMware organizzano un evento virtuale gratuito il prossimo mercoledì 14 Ottobre dalle 12:00 alle 13:00 dedicato a VMware Cloud ™ on AWS, il servizio on demand che consente di eseguire applicazioni in ambienti cloud basati su VMware vSphere® e di accedere ad una vasta gamma di servizi AWS, sfruttando a pieno le potenzialità del cloud AWS e tutelando gli investimenti VMware esistenti.
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
Crea la tua prima serverless ledger-based app con QLDB e NodeJSAmazon Web Services
Molte aziende oggi, costruiscono applicazioni con funzionalità di tipo ledger ad esempio per verificare lo storico di accrediti o addebiti nelle transazioni bancarie o ancora per tenere traccia del flusso supply chain dei propri prodotti.
Alla base di queste soluzioni ci sono i database ledger che permettono di avere un log delle transazioni trasparente, immutabile e crittograficamente verificabile, ma sono strumenti complessi e onerosi da gestire.
Amazon QLDB elimina la necessità di costruire sistemi personalizzati e complessi fornendo un database ledger serverless completamente gestito.
In questa sessione scopriremo come realizzare un'applicazione serverless completa che utilizzi le funzionalità di QLDB.
Con l’ascesa delle architetture di microservizi e delle ricche applicazioni mobili e Web, le API sono più importanti che mai per offrire agli utenti finali una user experience eccezionale. In questa sessione impareremo come affrontare le moderne sfide di progettazione delle API con GraphQL, un linguaggio di query API open source utilizzato da Facebook, Amazon e altro e come utilizzare AWS AppSync, un servizio GraphQL serverless gestito su AWS. Approfondiremo diversi scenari, comprendendo come AppSync può aiutare a risolvere questi casi d’uso creando API moderne con funzionalità di aggiornamento dati in tempo reale e offline.
Inoltre, impareremo come Sky Italia utilizza AWS AppSync per fornire aggiornamenti sportivi in tempo reale agli utenti del proprio portale web.
Database Oracle e VMware Cloud™ on AWS: i miti da sfatareAmazon Web Services
Molte organizzazioni sfruttano i vantaggi del cloud migrando i propri carichi di lavoro Oracle e assicurandosi notevoli vantaggi in termini di agilità ed efficienza dei costi.
La migrazione di questi carichi di lavoro, può creare complessità durante la modernizzazione e il refactoring delle applicazioni e a questo si possono aggiungere rischi di prestazione che possono essere introdotti quando si spostano le applicazioni dai data center locali.
In queste slide, gli esperti AWS e VMware presentano semplici e pratici accorgimenti per facilitare e semplificare la migrazione dei carichi di lavoro Oracle accelerando la trasformazione verso il cloud, approfondiranno l’architettura e dimostreranno come sfruttare a pieno le potenzialità di VMware Cloud ™ on AWS.
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) è un servizio di gestione dei container altamente scalabile, che semplifica la gestione dei contenitori Docker attraverso un layer di orchestrazione per il controllo del deployment e del relativo lifecycle. In questa sessione presenteremo le principali caratteristiche del servizio, le architetture di riferimento per i differenti carichi di lavoro e i semplici passi necessari per poter velocemente migrare uno o più dei tuo container.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
5. Load balancer
Application tier
Invest more time making this innovative
Database tier
Spend less time managing this
6. Migration
Backup and
Schema design recovery
Patching Query construction
Configuration
Software upgrades
Frequent server
Storage upgrades
upgrades
Hardware crash
Query optimization
7. Migration
Backup and recovery
Schema design Patching
Query construction Configuration
Query optimization Software upgrades
Storage upgrades
Focus on the “buck”
Frequent server upgrades
Hardware crash
Off load the “muck”
8. Source: Forrester
Security planning
License training
Backup, recovery
load and unload Script automation
Performance Installation, upgrade,
and tuning patching, migration
11. Amazon RDS Overview
Amazon RDS is a fully managed relational
database service.
Choice of Database engines
Simple to deploy
Easy to operate and scale
Reliable
Cost effective
28. Productivity
Multiple databases per instance
Standard user accounts
Connect and query using common MySQL tools & drivers
Tune engine parameters
Import and export data using standard MySQL tools (mysqldump)
Diagnostics
Native MySQL replication
SSL for encryption over the wire
Monitor metrics
Shell, super user or direct file system access (Think security!)
31. Productivity
One click. High availability with Multi-AZ
Automated deployment across multiple AZs
Synchronous replication from master to replica
Automatic fail-over; replica promoted to master
Test fail-over
32. Performance
Push-button scale, high performance
Scale storage from 5Gb to 1Tb of storage
Scale instance from small to 4XL (better I/O)
Add Read Replicas with asynchronous replication
Add ElastiCache for performance
34. Performance
Read Replicas
Scale beyond capacity constraints of a single
instance
Asynchronous replication to replicas
Perfect for read-heavy loads and reporting
35. Performance
Replicas vs Caches
Caches are good for low latency access
over a limited dataset
Replicas provide relatively less performance over
a substantially larger dataset
37. Case study
6 months to deploy a real time, social magazine
5 million users, 2 billion page flips per month
Run on EC2, RDS and ElastiCache. Multi-AZ.
Better response time (milliseconds) and uptime
Complex queries on use and relevance data
38. Case study
Outgrew existing IT environment
Elasticity to respond to peaks; reduce costs
Run on EC2, RDS
10 million visitors a day
Reduced time to market via
39. Data Protection
Automatic snapshots
Daily database back-ups (save up to 35 days)
Transaction log backups every 5 minutes
Everything up to final 5 minutes can be recovered
40. Data Protection
Automatic backups
Automated point-in-time backups
1 day retention (extendable to 35 days)
On by default. No additional charge.
41. Data Protection
DB Security groups
DB instances are isolated by default
Control access by source IP address or EC2
security group
Specify IP range: 0.0.0.0/0 discouraged!
42. Data Protection
RDS in the Virtual Private Cloud
Virtual network, bring your own IP addresses
Complete virtual network control: public, private
subnets
Includes Multi-AZ (for MySQL and Oracle)
43. Data Protection
Encryption via SSL
RDS generates SSL certificates for each DB
instance
Encryption of data between client and DB instance
44. Samsung saved $34M
Problem:
• Needed to reduce IT costs and were looking to
create a more flexible IT environment
Solution:
• AWS and RDS services. With every request, the
application authenticates devices, delivers apps
and content, and pushes notifications.
Business Benefits:
• Saved $34M in hardware and maintenance
expenses, 85% less than running on-premises
45. Bonus
Reserved instances
One time, up front payment
Reserve capacity for your DB instance
Discounted hourly rate
Low, medium and high utilization rates
From the beginning, Flipboard has run its infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Greg Scallan, Chief Architect at Flipboard says, “Our service currently runs 100% on AWS in multiple availability zones.” He adds, “We chose AWS because they were able to provide a majority of the solution we needed as we built our data center. Also, we appreciated the flexibility as we tried out various solutions to our business vision.” Flipboard has incorporated AWS services as follows:Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) for all server side processing from handling end user requests to data crunching, including a good sized Hadoop infrastructureAmazon SimpleDB for operational dataAmazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) for mission critical dataAmazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)Amazon CloudWatchAmazon Elastic Load Balancing (Amazon ELB)Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) and Amazon CloudFront for static and dynamic content distributionAmazon Mechanical Turk To build their solution, the team used Python/Ruby AWS SDKs in their operational tools and administrative servers. Scallan explains, “We leverage the Java AWS SDKs for core engineering services. We utilize many different languages, choosing the language that best meets the requirements at hand.”Flipboard has many hundreds of Amazon EC2 instances running and that number is continually growing with their increasing user base and feature sets. Scallan says, “We were able to go from concept to delivered product in approximately six months with just a handful of engineers, in large part because of the ability to deploy within a working cloud infrastructure very quickly.” Scallan would give the following advice to other developers: “If you plan to deploy in the cloud, embrace and leverage it for what it has to offer, and do not try to shoehorn traditional data center deployment strategies. One of the major perks of being in the cloud is flexibility and leveraging that can do wonders for operational costs.”The Flipboard team is always investigating additional AWS solutions and is open to using additional products as their needs evolve.The team has most appreciated the flexibility AWS has offered for prototyping before their first release. Scallan says, “This truly helped us release a working product on a highly aggressive schedule in a market with many emerging players.”
Mr.Horiuchi, CTO of gumiInc, describes what the company was using for their infrastructure prior to signing on with Amazon Web Services (AWS): “We used to rent racks at a datacenter, and ran our service using one Web server and one database server.” He notes that the company looked for a new offering mainly because they faced difficulty meeting demand: “So much traffic was coming from the social apps we were running on a mixi [a Japanese social networking site] platform, but we did not have the physical IT resources to manage it.”One of the deciding factors in their choice to use AWS was the capability to easily add servers as traffic increases, or remove them if it decreases. Horiuchi says, “Using AWS, we do not have to be limited by the number of physical servers. For example, we can easily carry out distribution of traffic using memcached or tokyotyrant when the database load gets higher, and if traffic decreases, we can reduce costs by canceling those instances. Even if there is no one who understands our in-house infrastructure very well, we are able to carry out this process automatically using AWS.” The number of gumi Inc. users is still increasing, and they are able to handle the increase in traffic.“Now,” says Horiuchi, “we are operating all services on AWS, except the delivery of static images.” The company uses Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) with the Multi-AZ deployment option, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for running social applications in a very efficient way that requires only a small number of people to manage the system. “In particular,” notes Horiuchi, “Amazon RDS is a really good solution to reduce the time and heavy-lifting involved in database management.” The company is using the following server spec—the most high-spec instances they can choose—for their social application:Load Balancer:Amazon Elastic Load BalancingApp Server:Amazon EC2CentOS 5.4 + Apache2.2.3 + mod_wsgi + Python2.5.4Instances: c1.xlarge High-CPU Extra Large Instance x 8Memcached Server:Amazon EC2CentOS 5.4 + memcachedInstances: m1.xlarge Standard Extra Large Instance x 1Tokyotyrant (key-value store):Amazon EC2CentOS 5.4 + tokyotyrantInstances: m1.xlarge Standard Extra Large Instance x 2DB Server:Amazon RDSMySQL 5.1.38Instances: Quadruple Extra Large DB Instance: 68 GB of memory, 26 ECUs (8 virtual cores with 3.25 ECUs each), 64-bit platform x 2 (Multi-AZ HA Option)Horiuchi says gumiInc will use AWS for future social applications. The company is particularly pleased that AWS allows them to quickly perform testing and evaluation, reducing time to market and development costs. Horiuchi offers an example: “We quickly inspected and tested several candidates when we examined the introduction of the key-value store [KVS] for an anti-load measure of our database.” They look forward to quickly building their services with additional solutions from AWS, especially KVS-type services.
80-90% cost savings compared to traditional hosting environment.Minimum of 99.9% service availability using Multi-Availability zones without increasing costs.Easy expansion into other geographical regions as neededFocus on improving products and applications rather than managing infrastructure.Customer Quote:“If we were to use the traditional on-premise datacenter, we would have spent $34 million dollars in hardware and maintenance expenses during the first two years. With AWS cloud, we met our reliability and performance objectives at a fraction of the cost.”Mr. Chun KangPrincipal Engineer, Visual Display Division