That’s right, our Flash Sale is on – Save 50% on your first year with Cloud Academy! (Personal plan only) Save 50% ❯ Get the benefit of more access to the latest training A year of study is the perfect amount of time to bet on yourself, big-time. Stop creating a false sense of urgency and instead give yourself the time and freedom to focus. With a year of Cloud Academy, you’ll have full on-demand access to all of our certification training content, plus everything else in our training library. We’re your trusted resource for all things tech, and we stay up-to-date with all the new exams and ad ..read more

Hard to believe it was last September when AWS first announced its brand new Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01) certification. This announcement was newsworthy for a couple of reasons: It represented the first new Associate-level AWS certification in over a decade! (The Solutions Architect, Developer, and SysOps Administrator Associate exams all debuted with the advent of the AWS global certification program back in 2013.) It signaled the beginning of a shift in the AWS certification landscape. Shortly after announcing the new AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate certification, AWS also ..read more

This is my 3rd and final post of this series ‘Navigating the Vocabulary of Gen AI’. If you would like to view parts 1 and 2 you will find information on the following AI terminology: Part 1: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) Deep Learning Generative AI (GAI) Foundation Models Large Language Models Natural Language Processing (NLP) Transformer Model Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) Part 2: Responsible AI Labelled data Supervised learning Unsupervised learning Semi-supervised learning Prompt engineering Prompt chaining Retrieval augmented generat ..read more

If you have made it to this page then you may be struggling with some of the language and terminology being used when discussing Generative AI, don’t worry, you are certainly not alone! By the end of this 3 part series, you will have an understanding of some of the most common components and elements of Gen AI allowing you to be able to follow and join in on those conversations that are happening around almost every corner within your business on this topic   Gen AI is already rapidly changing our daily lives and will continue to do so as the technology is being adopted at an exponen ..read more

On December 6, Google revealed its latest and most powerful AI model named “Gemini”. They are claiming that it represents a significant leap forward in the field of artificial intelligence, boasting capabilities far exceeding any previous model. What makes this AI model different, is that it was built from the ground up to be multimodal.  That means Gemini can understand and process information from various sources, including text, images, audio, video, and code.  It can also transform any type of input into any type of output.  This sets it apart from earlier models that w ..read more

AWS re:Invent 2023 is nearing the end. This year’s Keynote by Dr. Werner Vogels as usual, did not disappoint, you’ll see why in a minute but real quick before we get into it: If you are looking for lots of exciting new announcements this isn’t the one to watch.  After a, now traditional, “The Matrix” introduction and overall theme, Werner went into the topic of cost management and he went deep! I highly recommend this keynote to those old-school IT professionals with software development or data center management experience. You’re in for a treat! Alright, let’s get into the details: At ..read more

We’re more than halfway through AWS re:Invent 2023 and have had a remarkable amount of new services and features launched every day this week. If you haven’t been keeping up with the keynotes at re:Invent and want the highlights of each, I’d encourage you to read our team’s blog posts covering each keynote of the week:  Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantis Tuesday’s keynote from Adam Selipsky  Wednesday’s keynote from Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian To wrap up Wednesday’s announcements, we had a keynote delivered by Dr. Ruba Borno, ​​Vice President of AWS Worldwide Channels and Alliance ..read more

What an incredible week we’ve already had at re:Invent 2023! If you haven’t checked them out already, I encourage you to read our team’s blog posts covering Monday Night Live with Peter DeSantis and Tuesday’s keynote from Adam Selipsky. Today we heard Dr. Swami Sivasubramanian’s keynote address at re:Invent 2023. Dr. Sivasubramanian is the Vice President of Data and AI at AWS. Now more than ever, with the recent proliferation of generative AI services and offerings, this space is ripe for innovation and new service releases. Let’s see what this year has in store! Swami began his keynote by out ..read more

As both predicted and anticipated, the AWS re:Invent Keynote delivered by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky was packed full of new announcements. This marked the 2nd keynote of re:Invent 2023, with the first delivered by Peter DeSantis. To learn more about what Peter had to say, read here. I think we were all expecting there to be emphasis on generative AI announcements, and this keynote certainly delivered on this point! With gen AI making up a large quantity of the new announcements, we can clearly see that AWS is taking this technology by the horns and not letting go.  In this post I want to revi ..read more

Another year, another re:Invent Monday Night Live. It comes as no surprise that the re:Invent week kicks off with this session, as it highlights some of the most remarkable engineering achievements that push the limits of cloud computing. While we’re all familiar with the AWS console and the services that AWS provides, this session goes deeper into the underlying components that underpin these services, focusing on the actual silicon, storage, compute, and networking layers.  The session was led by Peter DeSantis, the Senior Vice President of AWS Utility Computing. Let’s see what new anno ..read more