Summary of AWS blogs for the week of Monday May 01

In the week of Mon May 01 2023 AWS published 100 blog posts – here is an overview of what happened.

Topics Covered

Desktop and Application Streaming

A Look Back at IGEL Disrupt 2023 Nashville and How to Create an AS2TrustedDomains DNS TXT Record to Redirect the AppStream 2.0 Native Client

IGEL recently hosted its first US-based in-person event since 2019, IGEL DISRUPT 2023 Nashville. Most major players in the End User Computing (EUC) space were represented at this exciting event. Attendees enjoyed breakout sessions and demonstrations of recent innovations.
The AS2TrustedDomains DNS TXT record can only enable the same domain (or subdomains) in which the DNS TXT record is created. To use a third-party identity provider without owning the domain, an alternative architecture is necessary. This blog outlines the process to create an AS2TrustedDomains DNS TXT record for redirecting the AppStream 2.0 native client.

Understanding the Need for Session Expiration and Countdown Timers in Amazon AppStream 2.0

Amazon AppStream 2.0 is often used to stream resource-intensive applications that require long-running calculations or simulations. If the session ends prematurely, user satisfaction and productivity will suffer. To illustrate, consider a scenario in which users run simulations that typically take three hours to complete. To keep costs manageable, AppStream 2.0 configuration settings may be adjusted so that sessions end after two hours.

How Cloud2 Can Help

The engineers at Cloud2 can help you design and deploy a solution that meets your organization’s unique needs. Our experts are familiar with the latest EUC technologies, as well as all of the available options related to Amazon AppStream 2.0. We can help you determine the best way to configure AppStream 2.0 to reduce costs without sacrificing user satisfaction. In addition, our team can work with you to create an AS2TrustedDomains DNS TXT record for redirecting the AppStream 2.0 native client to a third-party identity provider.

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AWS DevOps Blog

AWS CloudFormation and DevOps Guru Insights

What is AWS CloudFormation?

AWS CloudFormation is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) service from AWS that allows customers to model their cloud resources in template files that can be authored or generated in a variety of languages. Customers can deploy these resources and manage their stacks via the AWS Management Console, the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or the AWS API. CloudFormation provides customers with an easy way to create and manage their AWS infrastructure using a declarative language.

Integrating DevOps Guru Insights with CloudWatch Dashboard

Amazon DevOps Guru provides advanced machine learning-powered OpsBridge capabilities that allow users to monitor the health and performance of their applications in real time. Many customers use Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to monitor their applications and often ask how they can integrate Amazon DevOps Guru Insights in order to have a unified dashboard for monitoring.

To help customers with this, this blog post will showcase how to integrate DevOps Guru proactive and reactive insights to a CloudWatch dashboard by using Custom Widgets. With this integration, customers can correlate trends in their application’s performance and health with DevOps Guru insights.

How Cloud2 Can Help

Whether customers are new to AWS, want to increase their utilization of AWS services, or are looking for advice on how to better integrate DevOps Guru insights with CloudWatch dashboards, Cloud2 can help. Our team of certified AWS experts specialize in helping customers get the most out of their AWS services, and can help customers create customized solutions to their specific needs. Contact us today to learn more about how we can help you get the most out of your AWS environment.

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Official Machine Learning Blog of Amazon Web Services

Build an Image Search Engine with Amazon Kendra and Amazon Rekognition

Searching and obtaining images has never been easier with the internet. However, searching for complex images, like architecture diagrams with numerous visual icons and text, can be challenging. To tackle this problem, Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides a machine learning (ML) solution with its Amazon Kendra and Amazon Rekognition services.

Use Case: Architecture Diagrams

Architecture diagrams are a great example of complex images that need to be searched. To successfully search an architecture diagram, it needs to be properly labeled with detailed descriptions- especially when the diagram is too complex to be accurately understood with just a visual glance.

How Amazon Kendra and Amazon Rekognition Work Together

Amazon Rekognition can detect different objects within an image and provide a description of them. This will help with the initial labeling and indexing of the architecture diagrams.

Amazon Kendra will then be used to search images using natural language queries. This query-based search model requires the images to be associated with a detailed description of the objects present within the image. That’s where Amazon Rekognition comes in. Amazon Kendra will then use the images’ labels

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