New courses and certification updates from AWS Training and Certification in January 2025
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New AWS Skill Builder subscription features AWS Skill Builder subscriptions are available globally and unlock enhanced AWS Certification exam prep and hands-on AWS Cloud training including interactive learning and lab experiences like AWS Cloud Quest, AWS Industry Quest, AWS Builder Labs, and AWS Jam challenges... Check out the newest additions to AWS Skill Builder subscription: AWS Builder L...
New AWS Skill Builder subscription features AWS Skill Builder subscriptions are available globally and unlock enhanced AWS Certification exam prep and hands-on AWS Cloud training including interactive learning and lab experiences like AWS Cloud Quest, AWS Industry Quest, AWS Builder Labs, and AWS Jam challenges... Check out the newest additions to AWS Skill Builder subscription: AWS Builder L...

How Nielsen uses serverless concepts on Amazon EKS for big data processing with Spark workloads
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Nielsen’s team faced a scenario in which, as they scaled up their cluster by adding more instances, the performance per instance degraded... Data skew, where data is unevenly distributed across partitions, created processing bottlenecks and further reduced cluster efficiency... In extreme cases, these combined factors led to cluster failures... Evolving from a Spark cluster to Spark pods on A...
Nielsen’s team faced a scenario in which, as they scaled up their cluster by adding more instances, the performance per instance degraded... Data skew, where data is unevenly distributed across partitions, created processing bottlenecks and further reduced cluster efficiency... In extreme cases, these combined factors led to cluster failures... Evolving from a Spark cluster to Spark pods on A...

Introducing Leading the Shift, a new Microsoft Azure podcast
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The AI platform shift brings immense opportunity, but the road to success isn’t always easy or clear... We’ll discuss how the platform shift is affecting everything from data strategy, customer relationships, organizational structure, and culture, to their own lives and career journeys... It’s a wide-ranging conversation that explores the impact of digitalization and platform shifts i...
The AI platform shift brings immense opportunity, but the road to success isn’t always easy or clear... We’ll discuss how the platform shift is affecting everything from data strategy, customer relationships, organizational structure, and culture, to their own lives and career journeys... It’s a wide-ranging conversation that explores the impact of digitalization and platform shifts i...

Does China AI Threaten US Tech Dominance?
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Chipmaker Nvidia was especially hard hit, suffering a near-$600 billion loss of market cap in one day... Although much of the equities market took a hit on Monday, all non-tech sectors are still firmly in positive terrain for the year... In fact, healthcare stocks soared yesterday: XLV popped more than 3% on Monday, a day when tech and other corners of the market were in the crosshairs of sellers...
Chipmaker Nvidia was especially hard hit, suffering a near-$600 billion loss of market cap in one day... Although much of the equities market took a hit on Monday, all non-tech sectors are still firmly in positive terrain for the year... In fact, healthcare stocks soared yesterday: XLV popped more than 3% on Monday, a day when tech and other corners of the market were in the crosshairs of sellers...

Macro Briefing: 28 January 2025
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This benchmark rose to the strongest reading last month since May, reflecting a firmer pace of growth at 2024’s close... The stronger reading was “due in part to a resilient demand for housing – despite a recent rise in mortgage rates,” notes Zillow... “Builders saw a strong uptick in sales at the end of the year and altogether there were 683,000 new home sales in 2024, 2...” The Dall...
This benchmark rose to the strongest reading last month since May, reflecting a firmer pace of growth at 2024’s close... The stronger reading was “due in part to a resilient demand for housing – despite a recent rise in mortgage rates,” notes Zillow... “Builders saw a strong uptick in sales at the end of the year and altogether there were 683,000 new home sales in 2024, 2...” The Dall...

Announcing upcoming changes to the AWS Security Token Service global endpoint
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Virginia) AWS Region... To reduce dependency on a single Region, STS launched AWS STS Regional endpoints (https://sts...{Region_identifier}... These Regional endpoints allow you to use STS in the same Region as your workloads, which improves both performance and reliability... However, many customers and third-party tools continue to call the STS global endpoint, and as a result, these customers...
Virginia) AWS Region... To reduce dependency on a single Region, STS launched AWS STS Regional endpoints (https://sts...{Region_identifier}... These Regional endpoints allow you to use STS in the same Region as your workloads, which improves both performance and reliability... However, many customers and third-party tools continue to call the STS global endpoint, and as a result, these customers...

Building a culture of security: AWS partners with the BBC
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Cybersecurity isn’t just about technology—it’s about people... That’s why Amazon Web Services (AWS) partnered with the BBC to explore the human side of cybersecurity in our latest article, The Human Side of Cybersecurity: Building a Culture of Security, available on the BBC website... In the piece, we spotlight the AWS Security Guardians program and how it helps security enable your busi...
Cybersecurity isn’t just about technology—it’s about people... That’s why Amazon Web Services (AWS) partnered with the BBC to explore the human side of cybersecurity in our latest article, The Human Side of Cybersecurity: Building a Culture of Security, available on the BBC website... In the piece, we spotlight the AWS Security Guardians program and how it helps security enable your busi...