Category: Technical How-to

Scope 3 emissions are indirect greenhouse gas emissions that are a result of a company’s activities, but occur outside the company’s direct control or ownership. Measuring these emissions requires collecting data from a wide range of external sources, like raw material suppliers, transportation providers, and other third parties. One of the main challenges with Scope […]

The fleet management market is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 15.5 percent—from 25.5 billion US dollars in 2022 to USD 52.4 billion in 2027. Optimizing how your organization uses its vehicle fleet is important for logistics and service providers such as last mile, middle mile, and field services. In […]

Unstructured data can make up to 80 percent of data in the day-to-day business of financial organizations. For example, these organizations typically store and read PDFs and images for claim processing, underwriting, and know your customer (KYC). Organizations need to make this ingested data accessible and searchable across different entities while logically separating data access […]

Amazon CloudWatch Evidently enables developers to test new features on a small percentage of traffic and gauge the outcome before rolling it out to the rest of their users. Evidently feature flags are defined ahead of your release and, at runtime, your application code queries a remote service to determine whether to show the new […]

Enterprises perform quality control to ensure products meet production standards and avoid potential brand reputation damage. As the cost of sensors decreases and connectivity increases, industries adopt real-time imagery analysis to detect quality issues. At the same time, artificial intelligence (AI) advancements enable advanced automation, reduce overall cost and project time, and produce accurate defect […]

For International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, we’re featuring more than a week’s worth of posts that highlight female builders and leaders. We’re showcasing women in the industry who are building, creating, and, above all, inspiring, empowering, and encouraging everyone—especially women and girls—in tech. Companies choosing to rehost their on-premises SQL Server workloads to […]

Customers commonly use AWS Application Migration Service to migrate Active Directory joined Windows or Linux servers to Amazon Web Services (AWS). However, this process can affect the production environment during testing. For example, if you update DNS addresses during testing, clients that try to reach the original server will be redirected to the testing server. […]

This blog post was co-authored by Vinodh Kumar Rathnasabapathy, Senior Manager of Software Engineering, UnitedHealth Group.  Engineers who use Amazon Cognito for machine-to-machine authentication select a primary Region where they deploy their application infrastructure and the Amazon Cognito authorization endpoint. Amazon Cognito is a highly available service in single Region deployments with a published service-level […]

For a long time, industrial control systems were the heart of the manufacturing process which allows collecting, processing, and acting on data from the shop floor. Process manufacturers used a distributed control system (DCS) to do the automated control and operation of an industrial process or plant. With the convergence of operational technology and information […]

Co-authored with Nirmal Tomar, Principal Consultant, Infosys Technologies Ltd. Ease of creating on-demand resources on AWS can sometimes lead to over-provisioning or under-utilization of AWS resources like Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS. This can lead to higher costs that can often be avoided with proper planning and monitoring.  Non-critical environments, like development and test are […]