Glen Knight

NYC Based IT Professional

Zilliz Unfurls Managed Vector Database Service

Zilliz this week made generally available a managed cloud service that can now be spun up in less than five minutes. The service is based on the company’s open source Milvus vector database. Frank Liu, director of operations for Zilliz, said the managed Zilliz Cloud service running on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud will […]

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Top 10 US States for a Coding Career

Coding jobs are in high demand and the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that computer and information technology employment will grow 13% by 2030. Alongside the increasing demand, coding has emerged as a highly flexible career option with room for growth.  If you’re looking to build a lucrative career in coding, researchers at Scrapfly.com pulled […]

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Blue-Green Deployment: What Are the Options?

Blue-green deployment is a change management strategy for software releases. Blue-green deployments require two identically configured hardware environments. One environment is active and serves end users while the other remains idle. Blue-green deployments are typically used for applications with strict uptime requirements. First, new code is released to staging environments and fully tested. Once the […]

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New – Accelerate Your Lambda Functions with Lambda SnapStart

Our customers tell me that they love AWS Lambda for many reasons. On the development side they appreciate the simple programming model and ease with which their functions can make use of other AWS services. On the operations side they benefit from the ability to build powerful applications that can respond quickly to changing usage […]

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New – Failover Controls for Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points

We launched Amazon S3 Multi-Region Access Points to give you a global endpoint that spans S3 buckets in multiple AWS Regions. With S3 Multi-Region Access Points, you can build multi-region applications with the same simple architecture used in a single Region. This cool and powerful feature uses AWS Global Accelerator to monitor network congestion and […]

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Automated Data Discovery for Amazon Macie

Today, we announce automated data discovery for Amazon Macie. This new capability allows you to gain visibility into where your sensitive data resides on Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) at a fraction of the cost of running a full data inspection across all your S3 buckets. At AWS, security is our first priority. The […]

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New – AWS Config Rules Now Support Proactive Compliance

When operating a business, you have to find the right balance between speed and control for your cloud operations. On one side, you want to have the ability to quickly provision the cloud resources you need for your applications. At the same time, depending on your industry, you need to maintain compliance with regulatory, security, […]

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New AWS Glue 4.0 – New and Updated Engines, More Data Formats, and More

AWS Glue is a scalable, serverless tool that helps you to accelerate the development and execution of your data integration and ETL workloads. Today we are launching Glue 4.0, with updated engines, support for additional data formats, Ray support, and a lot more. Before I dive in, just a word about versioning. Unlike most AWS […]

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AWS Wickr – A Secure, End-to-End Encrypted Communication Service For Enterprises With Auditing And Regulatory Requirements

I am excited to announce the availability of AWS Wickr, an enterprise communications service with end-to-end encryption, that allows businesses and public sector organizations to communicate more securely, enabling customers to meet auditing and regulatory requirements like e-discovery, legal hold, and FOIA requests. Unlike many enterprise communication tools, Wickr uses end-to-end encryption mechanisms to ensure […]

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4 Best Practices for Entertainment App Testing

Entertainment apps represent a broad category of software, ranging from mobile games, to social media platforms, to streaming video apps and beyond. However, all entertainment apps share a few key traits in common: They typically host dynamic content that is unique for each user. This makes entertainment apps different from apps where most or all […]

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