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What is AWS Lambda?

Dynatrace

These include website hosting, database management, backup and restore, IoT capabilities, e-commerce solutions, app development tools and more, with new services released regularly. For such functions, organizations will be better off using an EC2 instance or their own hardware to interact with data. How does AWS Lambda work?

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Noon Lights — an IoT Review

Adrian Cockcroft

I’ve been gradually installing some IoT automation at home over the last few months, and was looking for a lighting solution to fit a fairly complex situation. I shouldn’t have to say that, but I’ve seen so many IoT apps that look terrible, are slow and crash a lot! The Noon switches only control lights.

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Välkommen till Stockholm – An AWS Region is coming to the Nordics

All Things Distributed

After finding it cost prohibitive to use colocation centers in local markets where their users are based, iZettle decided to give up hardware. In making the switch to AWS, WOW air has saved between $30,000 and $45,000 on hardware, and software licensing. iZettle, a mobile payments startup, is also ‘all-in’ on AWS.

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Spice up your Analytics: Amazon QuickSight Now Generally Available in N. Virginia, Oregon, and Ireland.

All Things Distributed

As I mentioned, we live in a world where massive volumes of data are being generated, every day, from connected devices, websites, mobile apps, and customer applications running on top of AWS infrastructure. The reality is that many traditional BI solutions are built on top of legacy desktop and on-premises architectures that are decades old.

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Expanding the Cloud: Introducing Amazon QuickSight

All Things Distributed

We live in a world where massive volumes of data are generated from websites, connected devices and mobile apps. In such a data intensive environment, making key business decisions such as running marketing and sales campaigns, logistic planning, financial analysis and ad targeting require deriving insights from these data.

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