How to Change the PATH Variable in Amazon Linux

Author: Kurt Feeley In Amazon Linux 2, as well as Linux in general, the PATH variable determines where the OS looks for executable files. This variable can be modified and allows for flexibility in organizing your directory structure. For example, let’s say that your OS is based off an image and all executable files thatContinue reading “How to Change the PATH Variable in Amazon Linux”

Introduction to Amazon Artificial Intelligence Services

Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash Author: Kurt Feeley Artificial intelligence is everywhere, there’s machine learning, supervised and unsupervised, there’s large language models and then there’s data science, etc, etc… If you are a dev, where do you even start? Fortunately, AWS has simplified artificial intelligence processes into easily consumable services. And, in this multipartContinue reading “Introduction to Amazon Artificial Intelligence Services”

Introduction to Amazon Polly

Author: Kurt Feeley Amazon Polly uses deep learning to synthesize human speech from text. With Amazon Polly you can convert meeting notes, research papers and magazine and newspaper articles to a digital audio format. And, with support for various voices and dozens of languages, Amazon Polly can bring your textual content to life in minutes.Continue reading “Introduction to Amazon Polly”

Introduction to Amazon Rekognition

Author: Kurt Feeley Amazon Rekognition is a highly featured, visual analysis tool that relies on pre-trained machine learning models. Amazon Rekognition enables you to analyze images as well as video without being a machine learning expert. Amazon Rekognition can flag inappropriate content, differentiate fake and real faces, can identify celebrities and can extract text. WhenContinue reading “Introduction to Amazon Rekognition”

Introduction to Amazon Translate

Author: Kurt Feeley Amazon Translate is an AWS machine learning service that is based upon deep learning and let’s you translate textual data from one language, to another. Amazon Translate has support for 75 different languages and can be used for translating meeting notes, translating telephone transcripts, or providing website search constructs in various languages.Continue reading “Introduction to Amazon Translate”

Which Amazon S3 Storage Class Is The Right One to Use?

“From the Mailbag” gives us at AWS w/ .NET the opportunity to answer questions from our users. Got a question for us? Ask us here. Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash Question: My company is switching cloud providers and is moving block storage to Amazon S3. Can you help explain the different S3 storage classes?Continue reading “Which Amazon S3 Storage Class Is The Right One to Use?”

AWS Secrets Manager or AWS SSM Parameter Store?

“From the Mailbag” gives us at AWS w/ .NET the opportunity to answer questions from our users. Got a question for us? Ask us here. Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash Question: The company that I work for is heavily invested in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store. But, I have been reading up on AWSContinue reading “AWS Secrets Manager or AWS SSM Parameter Store?”

What’s the Difference Between Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS?

“From the Mailbag” gives us at AWS w/ .NET the opportunity to answer questions from our users. Got a question for us? Ask us here. Photo by Joanna Kosinska on Unsplash Question: I’m a software developer and I’m new to AWS. What’s the difference between the Elastic Block Storage service and the Elastic File SystemContinue reading “What’s the Difference Between Amazon EBS and Amazon EFS?”