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AWS Cloud Watch – Monitor Your Environment

July 31, 2017 • AWS Tour

When you start using some AWS resources, it will become useful to monitor them as well. Thus, Amazon has provided the Cloud Watch service to efficiently accomplish this task. It follows the pattern…

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Amazon Snowball Solves Your Big Data Problem

July 24, 2017 • AWS Tour

One of the problems with using a cloud solution is getting started. You have massive amounts of data that are not in the cloud. However, you want to provide access to that…

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Cost Explorer – Find Your AWS Budget

July 10, 2017 • AWS Tour

The complexities of an enterprise AWS configuration can be staggering. In fact, the ability to determine your required budget can be a blocking factor in moving to AWS. Thus, Amazon has provided…

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Amazon App Stream – Run Your Applications Anywhere

June 19, 2017 • AWS Tour

In the list of AWS resources, I think AppStream (2.0) is one of the most powerful and innovative. What is AppStream? This service is another bundle of features that add up to…

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Amazon Chime – Keep In Touch

June 12, 2017 • AWS Tour

The Chime application from Amazon has a very limited free tier option (limited to two people) but does have a thirty-day trial. Better yet, the trial does not require a credit card…

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Amazon Athena – Spreadsheet to Database Conversion

June 7, 2017 • AWS Tour

The tour of Amazon AWS services moves to Athena this week. This service is a utility on top of S3 that allows you do queries of data files stored there. Thus, it…

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