Category: Technical How-to

API observability, which consists of logging, monitoring, and tracing, is a form of direct observation of a system and requires an agent or SDK to passively log API traffic. This data collection can be done within the application or at different points, such as with an API gateway. API observability can provide your business and […]

Image classification and object detection technology allows you to build scalable artificial intelligence models for business cases like visual search, product recommendations, autonomous vehicle object recognition, content moderation, and more. Today, services like Amazon Rekognition offer APIs to perform image analysis and object recognition. However, if your use case requires a more custom image classification […]

AWS Control Tower enables customers of all sizes to implement a multi-account strategy built on AWS Organizations. One of the key features of AWS Organizations is consolidated billing, which rolls up all of the charges incurred in member accounts to the AWS Organizations management account. There, costs can be viewed and analyzed in AWS Cost […]

Clustered databases provide high availability for the majority of mission-critical workloads in finance, telecom, retail, public sector, defense, and other industries.  In these industries, even a small downtime translates into significant losses. As the industries migrate their IT infrastructures to AWS, one challenge they face is migrating Oracle RAC clustered databases. These databases are today […]

A recommender system is an automated software mechanism that uses algorithms and data to personalize product discovery for a particular user. Its essential task is to help users discover the most relevant items within an often-unmanageable set of choices. These days, recommender systems are employed in diverse domains to promote products on e-commerce sites, such […]

AWS users occasionally need to perform analysis on data sources containing private or sensitive inputs. Inpher’s XOR Secret Computing Platform, available in AWS Marketplace, enables data scientists to train and run machine learning models while maintaining data privacy and without trading utility. Data analysis and machine learning performed by XOR can improve model performance with […]

AWS recommends that customers adopt a multi-account strategy as a best practice to achieve higher isolation of resources and help meet security, regulatory, and compliance needs. Customers must address questions around tracking their operational cost, identify security improvements, and ensure reliability and performance efficiency. Full-stack observability offers the troubleshooting tools needed, regardless of where problems […]

Machine learning (ML) enables you to deliver more value to your customers by using your data to automate decisions and transform your business. Pre-trained ML models can speed outcomes for real-time object and person detection, optical character recognition, and other use cases. By performing inferences on an ML model in the application’s workflow, you can […]

Accounts payable (AP) processing can be a time- and resource-intensive undertaking. Automating AP processing and eliminating or reducing the need for human intervention can increase your processing efficiency while reducing the processing cost per invoice. In this blog post, John, Pawan, and I will show you how to automate AP invoice processing in your AWS […]

AWS Control Tower provides a ready-to-use native integration with AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to manage users, roles, and multi-account access. Some customers’ organizations have more complex SSO requirements, including integrating with external identity providers to handle authentication and authorization. Okta is an enterprise-grade identity management service that is built for the cloud, but is […]