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First Ring Daily: Evernote’s Death Spiral and Amazon’s New Enterprise-Focused Q Assistant

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Evernote significantly restricting its feature set for free users, Amazon launching a new AI chatbot for the enterprise, and more.

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Taking Advantage of Free AWS Training

Last Update: Jul 31, 2023

If you want to maximize your skills while sitting at home, Amazon has free options available.

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AWS Certifications: A Complete Guide

In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains one of the biggest players in the cloud computing industry. For most IT pros, AWS certifications have become a crucial stepping stone for career advancement. These certifications validate professionals’ expertise with AWS services and indicate their ability to design, deploy, and manage applications on…

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First Ring Daily: Amazon Opens its App Store on Windows 11 to All Android Apps

Last Update: Jul 14, 2023

In this episode of First Ring Daily, Brad Sams and Paul Thurrott discuss Microsoft Teams 3D avatars reaching general availability and Amazon allowing all developers to release their Android apps on its App Store on Windows 11.

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AWS (Amazon Web Services)

What is Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose?

Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose is a fully managed service for efficiently streaming data from virtually any data source to your AWS applications. It provides near-real-time ingestion capabilities for building real-time data applications. In this article, we’ll detail how Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose works and the best use cases for it. What is Amazon Kinesis Data…

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Amazon Bedrock Brings Generative AI Capabilities to AWS

Last Update: Jun 30, 2023

Amazon announced yesterday Amazon Bedrock, a new platform allowing organizations to build and scale generative AI applications in the likes of OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Despite being the leading cloud provider with Amazon Web Services, the company was a bit late to join the generative AI race but it’s well positioned to catch up.  “At AWS, we…

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Hackers Steal Data Center Logins for Microsoft, Amazon, and Other Big Companies

Security researchers have disclosed a campaign that allowed hackers to gain access to data center logins for Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and several other big companies. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the stolen credentials could potentially allow threat actors to gain physical access to clients’ servers. Cybersecurity research firm Resecurity Inc. first discovered the…

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Amazon Cuts 18,000 Jobs From its Global Workforce

Further fueling fears of a coming recession, Amazon has announced that it was laying off 18,000 of its employees. The 18,000 layoffs represent roughly 6 percent of Amazon’s workforce. Amazon, headquartered in Seattle, is the second largest employer in the US behind Walmart. The online retailer employs 1.5 million people globally. Most of the cuts…

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AWS (Amazon Web Services)

AWS Announces Amazon Comprehend for Intelligent Document Processing

Amazon Web Services announced earlier this month Amazon Comprehend for Intelligent Document Processing (IDP). This is a new natural language processing (NLP) service that uses machine learning (ML) to uncover relationships and connections in various document types. Amazon Comprehend for IDP enables you to classify and extract entities from PDF documents, Microsoft Word files, and…

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Amazon Announces Availability of Serverless Aurora MySQL

Last Update: Aug 30, 2022

Amazon recently announced that a serverless version of their Aurora MySQL database product is now generally available.

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