Applications are traditionally deployed on servers, the time spent managing those servers is time you could have spent on building new business features and improving the quality of your applications. Building new features and improving the quality of your application is the way you make more revenue. Before the cloud age developers had servers available to run their workloads, the process of obtaining new hardware can take months. A huge amount of time and money [...]
AWS is pleased to announce that Amazon ElastiCache now has compatibility with Redis 4.0. This allows you to launch Redis 4.0 ElastiCache nodes or clusters. The Amazon ElastiCache service makes it simple for you create a fully managed in-memory data store and cache with either Redis or Memcached. To launch a Redis cluster, you may use the AWS Management Console or the AWS Command Line Interface. New Amazon ElastiCache Features: LFU (Least frequently used) cache [...]
Amazon Neptune is AWS’s fully-managed high-performance graph database service, allowing users to create applications that work with highly-connected datasets. Amazon Neptune is capable of storing billions of relationships and can query graphs with latencies measured in milliseconds. With support for Property Graph and RDF, Neptune allows users to create queries for highly connected datasets. This makes it superbly useful for recommendation engines, knowledge graphs, and network security. It also automatically provides minor version upgrades, backups, [...]
AWS has been continuously releasing new instance types with powerful processors to support all kinds of compute requirements. The powerful C5 instances were among these, providing 25% to 50% more performance ability over price against the C4 instances. C5 is designed for heavy workloads like batch and log processing, data analytics, highly-scalable multiplayer gaming, and so on. Sometimes, applications require high-speed, low-latency storage to go with their operations. Normally, we use Amazon S3 service to [...]
PolarSeven, in cooperation with AWS and GorillaStack, would like to invite you to learn about Optimising your AWS Environment at one of our Free National AWS Hands On Days. (See city times and locations below) These practical events feature the AWS Well-Architected Framework, which introduces various tools and techniques that you can use to professionally optimise your Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment in terms of cost, security, scaling, agility, and monitoring applications. We’ll cover the [...]
It's nearly that time of month again, and as usual you won't want to be late! Starting off the night, John Rotenstein a technical trainer from AWS will walk through Automating Video Editing using Amazon Rekognition. We then have presentations from CloudHealth and PagerDuty, so be sure to join us at 6:00pm for some pizza and beer on August 1st. Please arrive 10 minutes before to settle in. 18:00 – START 18:00 – 18:20 – [...]
Coming up June 6th will be our 71st AWS User Group Meetup. This month we will be joined by Mitch Beaumont from AWS presenting on Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) as well as presentations from Talend and Commvault. We'll also have a door prize draw for an Echo Dot, so you could be like last months lucky winner Wahid, pictured below with PolarSeven CEO Darrell King. We look forward to seeing you there. 18:00 - [...]
Session 1: AWS Summit Review by PolarSeven - Darrell King followed by "Monitoring and Troubleshooting complex issues using Sumo Logic" with Nikhil Sing - Tektorch" https://youtu.be/_0Qx283oepw Session 2: AWS S3 Security: Your One Week Action Plan "Learn AWS S3 security best practices, automated remediation tips, and how to continuously monitor your bucket security to keep your data safe no matter how dynamic your cloud environment is." Presenter: Craig Dent, Consulting Engineer - Palo Alto Networks [...]
If you would like to stay on top of AWS and cloud industry news make sure you register for our second quarter webinar series. The P7 Webinars will be short introduction and update sessions to educate you about AWS services and ecosystem. PolarSeven has partnered with AWS to deliver great content, demos and knowledge in 20-30 minutes webinars, that you can enjoy live every second Monday at 4pm or you can go through the recording [...]
PolarSeven, along with AWS and PagerDuty would like to invite you to learn about Continous Integration and Continous Deployment (CICD) to a Kubernetes (K8s) cluster at one of our Free National AWS Hands On Labs. (City times and locations below) These practical events give you an introduction to various tools and techniques that you can use to deploy in a very agile way applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the container orchestration tool Kubernetes. [...]
