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Author: Sébastien Stormacq
Seb has been writing code since he first touched a Commodore 64 in the mid-eighties. He inspires builders to unlock the value of the AWS cloud, using his secret blend of passion, enthusiasm, customer advocacy, curiosity and creativity. His interests are software architecture, developer tools and mobile computing. If you want to sell him something, be sure it has an API. Follow him on Twitter @sebsto.
Reduce Unwanted Traffic on Your Website with New AWS WAF Bot Control
According to research done by the AWS Shield Threat Research Team, up to 51% of traffic heading into typical web applications originates from scripts running on machines, also known as bots. A wide variety of bots – some wanted, some unwanted – are hitting your endpoints. Wanted bots are crawling your sites to index them […]
How to Use Channel Assembly with AWS Elemental MediaTailor to Launch Virtual Channels from Existing Sources
If you’re a broadcaster or Over-the-Top (OTT) channel operator, you can now create virtual channels by pulling together programming from multiple existing on-demand sources and blending them into a linear playlist. Creating a customized channel for a smaller audience group — such as a category of viewers based on interest, or regional preferences — was […]
Introducing AWS Systems Manager Change Manager
Because you are constantly listening to the feedback from your customer, you are iterating, innovating, and improving your applications and infrastructures. You continually modify your IT systems in the cloud. And let’s face it, changing something in a working system risks breaking things or introducing side effects that are sometimes unpredictable; it doesn’t matter how […]
HAQM Connect – Now Smarter and More Integrated With Third-Party Tools
We launched HAQM Connect in 2017 and, since then, thousands of customers have created their own contact centers in the cloud. Connect makes it easy for non-technical customers to design interaction flows, manage agents, and track performance metrics. For example, when I book a Best Western hotel room in Europe by phone, the call is […]
New – Attribute-Based Access Control with AWS Single Sign-On
Starting today, you can pass user attributes in the AWS session when your workforce sign-in into the cloud using AWS Single Sign-On. This gives you the centralized account access management of AWS Single Sign-On and ABAC, with the flexibility to use AWS SSO, Active Directory, or an external identity provider as your identity source. To […]
New – Multi-Factor Authentication with WebAuthn for AWS SSO
Starting today, you can add WebAuthn as a new multi-factor authentication (MFA) to AWS Single Sign-On, in addition to currently supported one-time password (OTP) and Radius authenticators. By adding support for WebAuthn, a W3C specification developed in coordination with FIDO Alliance, you can now authenticate with a wide variety of interoperable authenticators provisioned by your […]
Lightsail Containers: An Easy Way to Run your Containers in the Cloud
When I am delivering an introduction to the AWS Cloud for developers, I usually spend a bit of time to mention and to demonstrate HAQM Lightsail. It is by far the easiest way to get started on AWS. It allows you to get your application running on your own virtual server in a matter of […]
Majority of Alexa Now Running on Faster, More Cost-Effective HAQM EC2 Inf1 Instances
Today, we are announcing that the HAQM Alexa team has migrated the vast majority of their GPU-based machine learning inference workloads to HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) Inf1 instances, powered by AWS Inferentia. This resulted in 25% lower end-to-end latency, and 30% lower cost compared to GPU-based instances for Alexa’s text-to-speech workloads. The lower […]