Michael Otey

Amazon Web Services announced earlier this month Amazon Comprehend for Intelligent Document Processing (IDP). This is a new natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to uncover relationships and connections in various document types. Amazon Comprehend for IDP enables you to classify and extract entities from PDF documents, Microsoft Word files, and…

Last week, Amazon held its AWS re:Invent 2022 conference in Las Vegas. Re:Invent is Amazon’s premier conference for Amazon Web Services announcements, and this year’s re:Invent was a hybrid conference with the company streaming significant parts of the conference for free. As usual, this year’s re:Invent conference was packed with new AWS announcements. Here are…

Amazon announced earlier this month the availability of the AWS Resource Explorer. This new Amazon Web Services tool enables you to search through the AWS resources in your account across all different Regions. If you have a substantial AWS cloud deployment, then you probably know that finding specific resources in your environment can be a…

To effectively handle various types of security break-ins, many organizations have created an incident response (IR) plan. In this article, I’ll explain what is an incident response plan, how it differs from a disaster recovery plan, and what steps you need to follow to create an effective IR plan for your organization. While most businesses…

Amazon may have been a bit late to the hybrid cloud party, but their latest Amazon Web Services announcements leave no doubt that it has become a big deal for them. This past October 2022, the company announced that they have essentially doubled the computing power of its Snowball Edge device. Snowball Edge is a…

Effective project management is essential for businesses of all shapes and sizes. Using Office 365 tools for project management can help your organization to better manage project timelines, deliverables, and budgets while giving increased visibility into the status of a project. As well as into a project’s costs, risks, and team members. This post is…

Amazon File Cache, a new high-speed cache service on Amazon Web Services (AWS) was announced by Amazon in late September. This new AWS offering is designed for processing file data stored in the cloud and on-premises. “File Cache accelerates and simplifies your most demanding cloud bursting and hybrid workflows by giving your applications access to…

Amazon WorkSpaces added support for Ubuntu-based virtual desktops last week. If you’re unfamiliar with WorkSpaces, it’s an Amazon Web Services solution that enables you to securely provision and distribute virtual desktops to your workforce. This can be useful for scenarios like securely enabling remote workers or quickly provisioning desktops for contractors. Previously, customers could only choose…

Amazon announced last week the availability of local clusters for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) on AWS Outposts. Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that enables you to use the open-source container orchestration platform on AWS and on-premises data centers. As for AWS Outposts, it’s a family of on-premises fully managed solutions that deliver a hybrid Amazon…

Amazon and VMware announced last week the general availability of the VMware Cloud on AWS integration with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This new integration builds on the latest addition to the Amazon FSx family of fully-managed and highly-performant file systems that Amazon launched last year. For those unfamiliar, VMware Cloud on AWS provides the ability to…

If you can’t make it to this year’s AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas on Nov. 28 – Dec. 2 but you still want to learn more about Amazon Web Services, you might consider attending this year’s AWS Innovate conference. Unlike AWS re:Invent, which is an in-person event (and is also a bit pricy), AWS…

Amazon recently announced the general availability of license-included Visual Studio software on Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances. This means that organizations no longer need to separately purchase and install Visual Studio for their EC2 instances, which are the Amazon Web Services versions of cloud-based virtual machines. “Amazon EC2 provides a broad choice of instances, and customers not…