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A recent addition to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) family is Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES). This article discusses the application programming interface (API) calls to Amazon SES through boto, a Python library for AWS. It also walks you through a sample command-line tool called postman, which is designed for use in your PostfixContinue reading “Using Amazon SES in Python with Postman and Postfix”

Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched its SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes that uses the Kubernetes Operators model to more tightly couple the SageMaker machine learning (ML) platform with their Kubernetes workflows . The SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes product allows users to tap into data housed within SageMaker to populate a Kubernetes-controlled container or cluster of containers.Continue reading “AWS Stacks SageMaker ML Onto Kubernetes Clusters”

The sinews and muscles that make cloud computing function are just as important as the web and mobile applications that run on top of it. While many companies are focused on the features available in the apps, increasing user adoption of an app, or focusing on revenue generated from a service that runs on theContinue reading “What is AWS Cloud Formation?”

AWS Ground Station enables you to control and ingest data from orbiting satellites without having to buy or build satellite ground station infrastructure. AWS Ground Station does this by integrating the ground station equipment like antennas, digitizers, and modems into our AWS Regions around the world. It’s as easy as onboarding your satellites and schedulingContinue reading “What are The AWS Ground Station Features”

Applications that rely on data in cloud storage do not need to stay current every minute of the day. Think of a social media app. The is “real-time” data such as a new post or a photo upload, but most of the data such as account information, user profile, and the place you went toContinue reading “What is AWS AppSync?”

For a small company, keeping track of user accounts for a mobile or web app is not terribly difficult. It might be a simple database you deploy and manage manually. The problem arises when you suddenly start managing hundreds, thousands, or millions of user accounts. At that point, the task is much more complicated andContinue reading “What is AWS Cognito?”

In the age of incredible technological advancements on the Internet, autonomous cars, drones that can deliver a package from the sky, and instant access to social media feeds on our phones, it’s almost refreshing to know there is a service that is a little old school. AWS Snowball is a data transfer service that usesContinue reading “What is AWS Snowball?”

At this week’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its partners showcased the ways in which the cloud provider’s various IoT and AI offerings are creating new opportunities for software makers, particularly in the automotive space. For instance, AWS is integrating its IoT cloud platform with the BlackBerry QNXContinue reading “AWS Spotlights IoT and AI Integrations”

This article explains how to optimize performance for an Amazon Redshift data warehouse that uses a star schema design. Many of these techniques will also work with other schema designs. We’ll talk about considerations for migrating data, when to use distribution styles and sort keys, various ways to optimize Amazon Redshift performance with star schemas,Continue reading “Optimizing for Star Schemas on Amazon Redshift”