Posts Tagged ‘aws’

Batch Cloud Data Transfer Services – Amazon Snowball Appliance

December 9, 2017

Batch Cloud Data Transfer for @AWScloud
https://AWS.amazon.com/snowball & https://AWS.amazon.com/snowmobile Snail mail trumps email for really large data. Interesting to calculate effective transfer rates as compared “Ethernet.” Surprised that I couldn’t find even crude estimates.

See how old Amazon’s AI thinks you are

March 23, 2017

See how old $AMZN’s AI thinks you are
http://www.theVerge.com/2017/2/10/14582192/amazon-ai-rekognition-age-guess-software Free via image Rekognition platform, in the dev toolkit part of @AWScloud

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“Amazon’s latest artificial intelligence tool is a piece of image recognition software that can learn to guess a human’s age. The feature is powered by Amazon’s Rekognition platform, which is a developer toolkit that exists as part of the company’s AWS cloud computing service. So long as you’re willing to go through the process of signing up for a basic AWS account — that entails putting in credit card info but Amazon won’t charge you — you can try the age-guessing software for yourself.”
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AWS Import/Export Snowball – Transfer 1 Petabyte Per Week Using Amazon-Owned Storage Appliances | AWS Blo g

August 13, 2016

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-importexport-snowball-transfer-1-petabyte-per-week-using-amazon-owned-storage-appliances/

Amazon Web Services Announces Amazon Machine Learning

June 21, 2015

AWS Announces $AMZN #MachineLearning
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-web-services-announces-amazon-machine-learning-2015-04-09 Will it be useful for genomics? http://aws.amazon.com/machine-learning

Also, redshift

AWS Follow-up

September 15, 2014

A list of resources related to AWS

· 1,000 Genomes Project and AWS – http://aws.amazon.com/1000genomes/

· AWS Simple Monthly Cost Calculator –
http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

· Link to AWS Support Options –
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/?nc1=h_su_sp

· Link to Harvard Cloud Services page – http://cloud.huit.harvard.edu

What Happens When Amazon and Google Go to War? — Daily Intelligencer

April 1, 2014

What Happens When Amazon and Google Start a Price War Over the Future of the Internet? Large #AWS price cut!
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/what-happens-when-amazon-and-google-go-to-war.html $GOOG

Enterprise Cloud Computing | CloudSwitch

March 10, 2012

http://www.cloudswitch.com/
anti amazon lockin