Tag archives for AWS re:Invent
Podcast #297: Reinforcement Learning with AWS DeepRacer
How are ML Models Trained? How can developers learn different approaches to solving business problems? How can we race model cars on a global scale? Todd Escalona (Solutions Architect Evangelist, AWS) joins Simon to dive…
AWS Backup – Automate and Centrally Manage Your Backups
AWS gives you the power to easily and dynamically create file systems, block storage volumes, relational databases, NoSQL databases, and other resources that store precious data. You can create them on a moment’s notice as…
Behind the Scenes & Under the Carpet – The CenturyLink Network that Powered AWS re:Invent 2018
If you are a long-time reader, you may have already figured out that I am fascinated by the behind-the-scenes and beneath-the-streets activities that enable and power so much of our modern world. For example, late…
New – EC2 P3dn GPU Instances with 100 Gbps Networking & Local NVMe Storage for Faster Machine Learning + P3 Price Reduction
Late last year I told you about Amazon EC2 P3 instances and also spent some time discussing the concept of the Tensor Core, a specialized compute unit that is designed to accelerate machine learning training…
New – AWS Well-Architected Tool – Review Workloads Against Best Practices
Back in 2015 we launched the AWS Well-Architected Framework and I asked Are You Well-Architected? The framework includes five pillars that encapsulate a set of core strategies and best practices for architecting systems in the…
New – Compute, Database, Messaging, Analytics, and Machine Learning Integration for AWS Step Functions
AWS Step Functions is a fully managed workflow service for application developers. You can think & work at a high level, connecting and coordinating activities in a reliable and repeatable way, while keeping your business…
New – Hibernate Your EC2 Instances
As you know, you can easily build highly scalable AWS applications that launch fresh EC2 instances on an as-needed basis. While the instances can be up and running in a matter of seconds, booting the…
New AWS License Manager – Manage Software Licenses and Enforce Licensing Rules
When you make use of commercial, licensed software in the AWS Cloud using a BYOL (Bring Your Own License) strategy, you need to make sure that you stay within the provisions of the license, while…
AWS Launches, Previews, and Pre-Announcements at re:Invent 2018 – Andy Jassy Keynote
As promised in Welcome to AWS re:Invent 2018, here’s a summary of the launches, previews, and pre-announcements from Andy Jassy’s keynote. I have included links to allow you to sign up for previews, as appropriate.…
Amazon SageMaker Neo – Train Your Machine Learning Models Once, Run Them Anywhere
Machine learning (ML) is split in two distinct phases: training and inference. Training deals with building the model, running a ML algorithm on a dataset in order to identify meaningful patterns. This often requires large…