Tag: aws
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Around the World with Amazon Rekognition Image
This is the first article of a two-part series playing with Amazon Rekognition and flags from around the world. Today we will focus on testing the default behavior of Rekognition Image, in the second part we will use Rekognition Custom Labels to build a custom machine learning model and detect national flags.
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Dice, Skylines and CloudWatch Anomaly Detection
I am a lazy cloud architect with a background in site reliability engineering. That’s why I immediately felt in love with the idea behind CloudWatch Anomaly Detection when it was announced almost three years ago.
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Serverless Architecture Con – Berlin 2022
This autumn I will be back at the Serverless Architecture Con, this time in Berlin, to talk about serverless databases. The title of my session? The Future of Relational Databases on the Cloud. Abstract The major cloud providers offer different options to run a relational database on the cloud. A recent approach is to rely…
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Welcome Aurora Serverless v2!
oday AWS announced that Amazon Aurora Serverless v2 is generally available. Below a screenshot of my very first test of the new serverless cluster, to check some data and my experiments with the preview, take a look at my “Drawing the New York City skyline with Amazon Aurora Serverless v2” session that I presented at…
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(Video) The Future of Relational Databases on the Cloud
The major cloud providers offer different options to run a relational database on the cloud. A recent approach is to rely on so-called serverless databases that offer both traditional TCP connections and HTTP API access. In a short journey to databases on the cloud, we will compare different approaches and services, explore the main benefits…
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The Future of Relational Databases on the Cloud
I really enjoyed being yesterday one of the keynote speakers at the virtual Cloud Computing Conference Greece. Thanks Grigoris for the invitation and looking forward to a future edition in Greece! Below the slides of my 25 minutes talk about the future of relational databases on the cloud. And my experience juggling MySQL on AWS.
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Cloud Computing Conference Greece
In a week time I will be a keynote speaker at the Cloud Computing Conference organized by Boussias in Greece. I will be (virtually) on stage discussing one of my favourite topics, The Future of Relational Databases on the Cloud. Abstract The major cloud providers offer different options to run a relational database on the…





