The Democratic National Committee (DNC) assists local, state, and federal Democratic candidates. The organization had a traditional IT infrastructure for running its website and to handle tasks such as collecting voter data, but found it expensive to provision and nearly impossible to scale quickly. The DNC moved to AWS to run its website and to gather, store, and deliver voter ...
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Webinar: Building HIPAA-Compliant Applications Using Infrastructure-as-code
2. Many healthcare organizations are interested in migrating their applications to the AWS Cloud, but have questions about how to build cloud-based HIPAA-compliant applications that use modern best practices for securing patient data. This webinar can answer those questions by teaching you strategies for migrating sensitive data to AWS and architecting compliant applications. The information will be co-presented with ClearDATA, ...
Read More »Introduction to Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), provides developers and IT teams with secure, durable, highly-scalable object storage. Amazon S3 is easy to use, with a simple web service interface to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere on the web. With Amazon S3, you pay only for the storage you actually use. There is no minimum fee and ...
Read More »Introduction to Amazon RDS for Aurora
This animated video of Amazon RDS for Aurora gives an overview of this MySQL-compatible relational database management system (RDBMS). Learn more: http://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/
Read More »AWS Partner Success: Doug Schneider, 2nd Watch
Doug Schneider, CEO of 2nd Watch, discusses the company’s choice to build its business on AWS. 2nd Watch, a Premier APN Consulting Partner, is a born-in-the-cloud company devoted to supporting a wide range of enterprise customers as they transform their businesses on the cloud. 2nd Watch has had customers experience between 70 – 80 percent cost savings by moving to ...
Read More »Auto Scaling Lifecycle Policies for Security Practitioners
In this short video Jonathan Desrochwe review a number of real-life use cases for AutoScaling Lifecycle Policies coupled with a demo. Download the application that was used for the demo is available as a runnable CloudFormation template: https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloudformation/home?region=us-east-1#/stacks/new?stackName=AutoScaling-LifecyclePolicies-Demo&templateURL=https://s3.amazonaws.com/SecDevOps/SubStacks/AutoScalingLifecyclePolicies.cloudformation.json
Read More »Amazon EC2 Container Service のご紹介(日本語字幕)
詳細は http://aws.amazon.com/jp/ecs/ をご覧ください。 Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) は、非常にスケーラブルで、高性能なコンテナ管理サービスで、Docker コンテナをサポートし、Amazon EC2 インスタンスのマネージド型クラスターでのアプリケーションの実行を容易にします。Amazon ECS を使用すると、自社でクラスター管理インフラストラクチャのインストール、運用、スケールを行う必要がなくなります。簡単な API 呼び出しを使用して、Docker 対応アプリケーションの起動と終了、クラスターの完了状態のクエリ、多くの使い慣れた機能(セキュリティグループ、Elastic Load Balancing、EBS ボリューム、IAM ロールなど)へのアクセスを実行できます。Amazon ECS を使用することで、リソースニーズと可用性要件に基づいて、クラスター全体のコンテナの配置をスケジューリングできます。ビジネスまたはアプリケーション固有の要件を満たすために、独自のスケジューラーまたはサードパーティ製のスケジューラーを統合することもできます。
Read More »Introduction to Amazon Key Management Service
AWS Key Management Service is a managed service that makes it easy for you to create and control the encryption keys that you use to encrypt your data. Learn about KMS key concepts and best practices and then practice with a free lab at http://run.qwiklabs.com.
Read More »Introduction to Amazon Redshift
Learn about Amazon Redshift key concepts. See a demo of Redshift basics and then go practice with a free lab at https://run.qwiklab.com/focuses/1583?locale=en&search=15238
Read More »Getting Started with Amazon CloudFront Video Streaming
Learn how to use Amazon CloudFront to stream video files. This video makes use of the Amazon CloudFront Streaming Diagnostic Client located here: http://d1k5ny0m6d4zlj.cloudfront.net/diag/CFStreamingDiag.html
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