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Andi Gutmans

Author: Andi Gutmans

Andi Gutmans, Vice President, Analytics and ElastiCache, Amazon Web Services Andi Gutmans has been an open source contributor and leader for over 20 years. Currently, he runs a number of services at AWS including Amazon Elasticsearch Service, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Glue and Lake Formation. Prior to joining AWS, Gutmans served as CEO & Co-founder of Zend Technologies, the commercial backer of open-source PHP which was acquired in 2015 by Rogue Wave Software where he served as EVP of Strategic Partnerships. Gutmans co-authored open source PHP which runs over 80% of worldwide web sites. He helped create and lead a number of open source projects, served on the Eclipse Foundation’s board of directors, and is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation. He was recognized as an industry thought leader by Mashable as one of the “10 founding fathers of the Web”, by InternetNews.com as one of the top 10 most visionary tech CEOs in 2010, and by Computerworld as one of “40 innovative IT people to watch, under the age of 40."

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Launching Open Distro for Elasticsearch security features on Amazon Elasticsearch Service

We are excited to announce that we are making new Open Distro for Elasticsearch security features available on Amazon Elasticsearch Service. Amazon Elasticsearch Service is frequently used for sensitive enterprise workloads, and today’s launch adds multiple capabilities to give you even tighter control over your data. New features include the ability to use roles to […]

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Setting the record straight on AWS and open source

This New York Times article is skewed and misleading. The reporter had a story he wanted to write and didn’t let the facts get in the way of his story. He ignored most of what we shared with him, left out many of the positive partner comments various partners shared with him, and conflated various […]

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Introducing real-time anomaly detection in Open Distro for Elasticsearch

There is an enormous increase in real-time streaming applications across a wide range of industries such as finance, health, information technology, retail, and the Internet of Things (IoT). Organizations depend on log analytics solutions to detect aberrations in the data and identify critical situations. Examples include finding fraudulent behavior in financial transactions, discovering suspicious IP addresses […]