Data engineers play a crucial role in the modern data-driven landscape, managing essential tasks from data ingestion and processing to transformation and serving. Their expertise is particularly valuable in the era of generative AI, where harnessing the value of vast datasets is paramount. To empower aspiring and experienced data professionals, DeepLearning.AI and Amazon Web Services (AWS) have partnered to launch the Data Engineering Specialization, an advanced professional certificate on Coursera. This comprehensive program covers a wide range of data engineering concepts, tools, and techniques relevant to modern organizations. It’s designed for learners with some experience working with data who are interested in learning the fundamentals of data engineering. The specialization comprises four hands-on courses, each culminating in a Coursera course…
Month: September 2024
Amazon S3 Express One Zone now supports AWS KMS with customer managed keys
Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-Availability Zone (AZ) S3 storage class, now supports server-side encryption with AWS Key Management Service (KMS) keys (SSE-KMS). S3 Express One Zone already encrypts all objects stored in S3 directory buckets with Amazon S3 managed keys (SSE-S3) by default. Starting today, you can use AWS KMS customer managed keys to encrypt data at rest, with no impact on performance. This new encryption capability gives you an additional option to meet compliance and regulatory requirements when using S3 Express One Zone, which is designed to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications. S3 directory buckets allow you to specify only one customer managed key per bucket for…
How Pixel Watch 3 is helping me train for a marathon and 50k
Learn how one runner is tackling races with Fitbit Premium and the new Google Pixel Watch 3. source https://blog.google/products/fitbit/marathon-running-training-pixel-watch-3/
AWS Weekly Roundup: Oracle Database@AWS, Amazon RDS, AWS PrivateLink, Amazon MSK, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon SageMaker and more
Hello, everyone! It’s been an interesting week full of AWS news as usual, but also full of vibrant faces filling up the rooms in a variety of events happening this month. Let’s start by covering some of the releases that have caught my attention this week. My Top 3 AWS news of the week Amazon RDS for MySQL zero-ETL integrations is now generally available and it comes with exciting new features. You are now able to configure zero-ETL integrations in your AWS CloudFormation templates, and you also now have the ability to set up multiple integrations from a source Amazon RDS for MySQL database with up to five Amazon Redshift warehouses. Lastly, you can now also apply data filters which determine…