Introduction to Amazon WorkSpaces Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed secure cloud desktop that make it easy for users to access applications, documents, and resources from anywhere on any supported device. This is available to provision on Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, iPads, Android tablets, Fire tablets, as well as Chrome and Firefox web browsers, delivering […]

AWS Lambda – An AWS Computing Tool AWS Lambda gives your organization the ability to run code serverless.  Serverless does not mean there are no servers involved, it means servers and the entire infrastructure are taken care of, so the code is your only worry.  Taking this approach will allow your organization to only pay […]

Amazon EC2 – Just the Facts Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) falls under managed services offered by AWS for their cloud computing offerings.  It is a secure and resizable compute capacity in the cloud.  Now let’s breakdown the meaning. 1.    Compute, (in Elastic Compute Cloud) refers to the compute or the server resources such […]

Is Amazon Chime right for your organization? Amazon Chime is a secure enterprise ready unified communication service designed for a frictionless adoption by users anywhere on any device. High quality audio and video make virtual meetings a pleasant reality. The easy to use meeting room features make sure meetings run smoothly and free of frustration. […]

Collecting, processing, and analyzing data to provide insights in real-time is critical to organizations.  Amazon Web Services offers Amazon Kinesis for this very purpose.  Amazon Kinesis allows your organization to easily collect, process, and analyze video and data streams.  This real time tool will allow you to consume data such as video, audio, application logs, […]

From the response we received from Amazon EMR – A Migration Plan we have decided to elaborate on the Amazon EMR topic.  This post will dive deeper into next steps.  So now that you have started your journey to Amazon EMR, gathering requirements, optimization and security are the next steps in the migrating process. A […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers their Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) tool for big data processing and analysis.  The MapReduce software frame allows vast amounts of data to be processed quickly and cost- effectively.  In addition, EMR securely and reliably handles a broad set of big data use cases, including log analysis, web indexing, data transformations […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers their Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) tool for big data processing and analysis.  The MapReduce software frame allows vast amounts of data to be processed quickly and cost- effectively.  In addition, EMR securely and reliably handles a broad set of big data use cases, including log analysis, web indexing, data transformations […]

Amazon Web Solutions (AWS) offers Amazon (AWS) Athena as a service.  Amazon Athena is a cost-effective interactive query service that will make your life easier and save you time and frustration.  This easy to use, server less service will allow you to quickly query your data without having to setup and manage any servers or […]