Computing – Clouds – AWS

Why You Should Never Join the AWS Community Builders Program

I was an AWS Community Builder in ML from 2021 to 2024. AWS did not extend the relationship because, according to AWS, the book “Hands-On AI Trading with Python, QuantConnect and AWS,” which I co-wrote as the lead author, does…

Most Performant Docker Base Images for Data Science on AWS Batch

1. Summary If you’re working with Python batch jobs that are heavy on mathematical computations, you might want to explore using the IntelPython Docker base image. In our experience, particularly with data science tasks that typically wrap up in about…

AWS Credits & Discount Programs Overview

AWS continuously expands the range of their services and to stay competitive, your AWS architecture requires constant adjustments. Optimizing your cloud architecture within AWS demands a strategic approach, with a pivotal emphasis on comprehensive experimentation. Recognizing the crucial role that…

A Step-by-Step Guide to Efficiently Processing AWS Events’ Videos

The Modern Cloud Architect’s edge is rapidly harnessing and applying an ever-evolving knowledge universe – It’s not about memorizing details; it’s about knowing possibilities and using the right keywords to unlock your cloud potential. In the AWS world, one of…

Lessons Learned from Having Passed all Twelve AWS Certification Exams

On April 24, 2023, I finished the AWS certification marathon of passing one AWS certification exam per month (“the certification marathon”). This blog post outlines the lessons learned from this journey and expands on the previously published successful blog post…

FinOps is dead, long live the Cloud Financial Management

The FinOps Foundation substantiates its existence by the fact that about a third of all cloud spend is wasted and focuses majority of its attention on cloud spend, rather than long-term profitability – their definition of FinOps implies that FinOps…

How to move data from Google Cloud Storage to Seagate Lyve

While AWS does provide one of the most advanced cloud object storage platforms available today – its S3 API is the industry standard adopted by CloudFlare R2 or Seagate Lyve – if you need to access a substantial amount of…

Top 3 Performance Optimization Insights from using DevOps Guru for RDS

This post is written in collaboration with Oquant, a next-generation real-time artificial intelligence company poised to take a leadership role in AI and quantitative finance. Oquant’s initial product is a fully automated trading platform built on a one-of-a-kind AI trading…
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