The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and its scientific laboratories are the foundation of our national defense. With responsibility for guarding national security through the military application of nuclear science, the NNSA maintains and enhances the safety, security and effectiveness of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile. It works to reduce the global danger from…
Apache Kafka is an open-source platform for building real-time streaming data pipelines and applications. At re:Invent 2018, we announced Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka, a fully managed service that makes it easy to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. When you use Apache Kafka, you capture real-time data…
What we can all learn from the latest 2021 Global Data Protection Index Cambridge Dictionary defines readiness as “willingness or a state of being prepared for something.” If we have learned anything from the events of 2020, it’s the absolute necessity to be ready for anything. And yet despite the advances organizations continue to make…
AWS Disaster Response Team volunteer Paul Fries runs cable to provide connectivity in a police station that has been converted into a supply distribution center and housing for National Guard troops and FEMA. During the crisis that has resulted in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, the AWS Disaster Response Team is providing personnel and resources…
Many customers I’ve spoken to think of the cloud as a location—specifically, the public cloud—a place to go to unlock speed, agility, and increased innovation for their development and IT organization. They look to the public cloud to give them the power to instantly spin up resources when needed—and shut them down when they’re not….
Choose the right payment solution that aligns with your IT strategy The process for acquiring new IT infrastructure is often brutal. Much effort is put into investment planning and defining equipment priorities. Finance teams work hand in hand to determine feasibility, funding, and cost control. The impact on cashflow, long-term cost and usage cycle is…
Global demand for video content has been rapidly increasing and now has the major audiences of Internet and mobile network traffic. Over-the-top streaming services such as Twitch continue to see an explosion of content creators who are seeking live delivery with great image quality, while live event broadcasters are increasingly looking to embrace agile cloud…
During the past year we have come to understand how critical IT is to business and how it must be a priority moving forward. The operating costs of data centers are becoming the largest expense of IT. IDC reports that the OPEX spend on IT will be around 300% more than CAPEX by 2023. Most…
Dell Technologies and Amazon today announced that Amazon EKS Anywhere has been validated on Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure and Dell EMC PowerStore storage systems. EKS Anywhere is a new deployment option for Amazon EKS that enables customers to easily create and operate Kubernetes clusters on-premises while allowing for easy connectivity and portability to public…
In 2015, we launched Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES), a fully managed service that makes it easy for you to perform interactive log analytics, real-time application monitoring, website search, and more. Amazon ES has been a popular service for log analytics because of its ability to ingest high volumes of log data. Additionally, with UltraWarm…