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Cloud Big Data Case Study – Faster Customer Reporting with a Data Lake and Data Warehouse
Here's how we implemented a combination of a database, data lake, and data warehouse to make customer reporting much faster for our client's SMS marketing platform. This is the fifth article of our Big Data in the Cloud series. You can read the first four here: Big...
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How data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts fit into your cloud storage architecture
Understand the differences between data lakes, data warehouses, and data marts, and how they can meet your cloud data storage and analysis needs. This is the fourth article of our Big Data in the Cloud series. You can read the first three here: Big Data in the Cloud:...
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Continuous Integration with AWS – Two Perspectives (videos)
Watch these two different approaches to building a continuous integration / continuous delivery process Continuous Integration - the process of automatically building and testing your code - is a crucial part of the modern software development process. In the age of...
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SFTP Gateway is now live on AWS GovCloud!
Government agencies can now improve their IT operations by using SFTP Gateway to easily and securely transfer files and data to Amazon S3 SFTP Gateway is now live on AWS US GovCloud! Our product allows enterprises of all sizes, and now government agencies, easily and...
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SQL vs. NoSQL – what’s the best option for your database needs?
In choosing between SQL vs. NoSQL, you'll need to think about what your data looks like, how you'll query it, and your scalability needs. This is the third article of our Big Data in the Cloud series. You can read the first two here: Big Data in the Cloud: Why Cloud...
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Overview of Amazon RDS – a hands-on video demo
This video is from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on September 21, 2017 and provides an overview of Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). In this presentation, Thorn Technologies CEO Jeff Thorn talks about: 1) How to launch a development instance of RDS 2) How to...
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8 Things You Need to Do Before Kicking Off Your Cloud Big Data Initiative
Think about your objective, understand data requirements, select the right big data tools, and more This is the second article of our Big Data series. You can read the first one here: Big Data in the Cloud: Why Cloud Computing is the Answer to Your Big Data...
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AWS Well-Architected Framework, using Lambda@Edge to resize images on the fly, and more videos from the Columbia AWS Meetup
On December 11, 2018, members of the Columbia AWS Meetup presented short, quick-hitting Lightning Talks on various topics such as the AWS Well-Architected Framework and Tool, new product and feature announcements at AWS re:Invent 2018, and more. Here's the title of...
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Passwords vs. SSH keys – what’s better for authentication?
Both SSH key and password authentication have their pros and cons. Understand them to make the right choice for your company. Which is better for user authentication on an SFTP server - SSH keys or passwords? This has been a debate for decades. Both have their pros...
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SFTP Gateway vs. AWS SFTP – A Comparison
AWS recently launched AWS Transfer for SFTP (or AWS SFTP, for short), a fully-managed service that transfers files into and out of Amazon S3 via SFTP. Sound familiar? Of course it does - it’s very similar to our file transfer product, SFTP Gateway! Both products use...
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