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Tag: Guest Post
How to become an AWS expert
This guest post is by AWS Community Hero Michael Wittig. Michael Wittig is co-founder of widdix, a consulting company focused on cloud architecture, DevOps, and software development on AWS. In close collaboration with his brother Andreas Wittig, Michael co-authored Amazon Web Services in Action and maintains the blog cloudonaut.io where they share their knowledge about […]
Serverless and startups, the beginning of a beautiful friendship
Guest post by AWS Serverless Hero Slobodan Stojanović. Slobodan is the co-author of the book Serverless Applications with Node.js; CTO of Cloud Horizon, a software development studio; and CTO of Vacation Tracker, a Slack-based, leave management app. Slobodan is excited with serverless because it allows him to build software faster and cheaper. He often writes […]
Boost your infrastructure with the AWS CDK
This guest post is by AWS Container Hero Philipp Garbe. Philipp works as Lead Platform Engineer at Scout24 in Germany. He is driven by technologies and tools that allow him to release faster and more often. He expects that every commit automatically goes into production. You can find him on Twitter at @pgarbe. Infrastructure as […]
Pick the Right Tool for your IT Challenge
This guest post is by AWS Community Hero Markus Ostertag. As CEO of the Munich-based ad-tech company Team Internet AG, Markus is always trying to find the best ways to leverage the cloud, loves to work with cutting-edge technologies, and is a frequent speaker at AWS events and the AWS user group Munich that he […]
Using AWS AI and Amazon Sumerian in IT Education
Update Sept. 28, 2023 – Amazon Sumerian is no longer available. This guest post is by AWS Machine Learning Hero, Cyrus Wong. Cyrus is a Data Scientist at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Lee Wai Lee) Cloud Innovation Centre. He has achieved all nine AWS Certifications and enjoys sharing his AWS knowledge with […]
Manage Instances at Scale without SSH Access Using EC2 Run Command
The guest post below, written by Ananth Vaidyanathan (Senior Product Manager for EC2 Systems Manager) and Rich Urmston (Senior Director of Cloud Architecture at Pegasystems) shows you how to use EC2 Run Command to manage a large collection of EC2 instances without having to resort to SSH. — Jeff; Enterprises often have several managed environments […]
New – USASpending.gov on an Amazon RDS Snapshot
Update (April 2019) – USAspending.gov has deprecated access to RDS Snapshots of their database. For information on how to access spending data from the US federal government, please visit USAspending.gov. They also provide instructions on how to download their database as a PostgreSQL archive. My colleague Jed Sundwall runs the AWS Public Datasets program. He wrote […]
AWS Enables Consortium Science to Accelerate Discovery
My colleague Mia Champion is a scientist (check out her publications), an AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and an AWS Certified Developer. The time that she spent doing research on large-data datasets gave her an appreciation for the value of cloud computing in the bioinformatics space, which she summarizes and explains in the guest post below! […]




