The Compelling Advantages of a Cloud Data Lake

“Big data” is an idea as much as a particular methodology or technology, yet it’s an idea that is enabling powerful insights, faster and better decisions, and even business transformations across many industries.

How to Overcome the Top Five Big Data Challenges–It’s All About the Cloud

As easy as it is to get swept up by the hype surrounding big data, it’s just as easy for organizations to become discouraged by the challenges they encounter while implementing a big data initiative.Concerns regarding big data skill sets (and the lack thereof), security, the unpredictability of data, unsustainable costs, and the need to make a business case can bring a big data initiative to a screeching halt.

Deploying a Data Lake in AWS

Data Lake is a new and increasingly popular architecture to store and analyze massive volumes and heterogeneous types of data.

451 Big Data Whitepaper: The Cloud-Based Approach to Achieving Business Value from Big Data

451 conducted six in depth interviews with Big Data users whose primary deployment is cloud based. These users were sourced from customer lists provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS). 451 Research analyzed the results of these interviews and, combined with our ongoing customer and market analysis, created this report.

AWS Cloud Transformation Model

project, foundation, migration, and optimization.

Three Ways the Cloud Can Help Manage Healthcare’s Digital Data Tsunami

Today’s healthcare providers are dealing with a digital data tsunami. Increasing electronic health record (EHR) adoption, the proliferation of connected healthcare devices and advances in imaging technology are increasing the volume of digital imaging data.

Introduction to AWS Security

Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers a scalable cloud computing platform designed for high availability and dependability, providing the tools that enable you to run a wide range of applications. Helping to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your systems and data is of the utmost importance to AWS, as is maintaining your trust and confidence.

AWS Best Practices for DDoS Resiliency

This paper is intended for customers who want to improve resiliency of their applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. The paper provides an overview of DDoS attacks, capabilities provided by AWS, mitigation techniques, and a DDoS-resilient reference architecture that can be used as a guide to help protect application availability.