#aws

Amazon conteste l’attribution à Microsoft d’un gros contrat du Pentagone
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/11/15/amazon-conteste-l-attribution-a-microsoft-d-un-gros-contrat-du-pentagone_601

Amazon dénonce « une influence politique importante dans ce processus ». Une allusion à l’hostilité publique du président américain envers l’entreprise et son propriétaire, Jeff Bezos, détenteur également du quotidien « Washington Post ». Amazon a contesté jeudi 14 novembre l’attribution par le Pentagone à Microsoft d’un gros contrat de stockage de données en ligne (cloud) de 10 milliards de dollars (9 milliards d’euros), pour lequel le géant du commerce en ligne et leader du marché était considéré comme (...)

#Google #Microsoft #Amazon #AWS #militarisation #CloudComputing #lutte #JEDI

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Stop Amazon et son monde
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Appel pour transformer le Black Friday 2019 en un « Vendredi Noir pour Amazon ». La satisfaction du client, c’est l’obsession affichée de Jeff Bezos patron d’Amazon, le géant du e-commerce aux 180 millions de références. Sa stratégie : le "day one", soit maximiser les cadences de préparation des colis pour livrer en moins d’un jour, moins d’une heure et peut être moins d’une demi-heure grâce à des drones de livraison. Son ambition : créer un écosystème complet avec des maisons connectées, des e-books, de (...)

#Palantir #Amazon #AWS #robotique #migration #écologie #travail #domination #fiscalité #CloudComputing #conditions #lutte (...)

##fiscalité ##surveillance

Le business sécuritaire d’Amazon
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2019/11/13/le-business-securitaire-d-amazon_6019004_3234.html

Le géant de l’e-commerce est devenu un acteur majeur et controversé du secteur de la défense et de la sécurité, grâce à sa filiale d’hébergement de données ou ses visiophones connectés. Cette expérience a été, pour nous, rien de moins qu’une transformation. » Sur scène, devant 10 000 personnes conviées à un événement organisé par Amazon pour ses clients appartenant au secteur public, à Washington, en juin 2018, Sean Roche ne tarit pas d’éloges sur les bienfaits des services d’hébergement de données en ligne (le (...)

#Palantir #Google #Microsoft #Ring #IBM #Amazon #GoogleCloud #AWS #algorithme #CCTV #Neighbors #Rekognition #sonnette #éthique #biométrie #militarisation #vidéo-surveillance #facial #reconnaissance #CloudComputing #Maven #BigData #surveillance (...)

##voisinage ##CIA ##drone

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Publicité, hébergement, open-source : comment le Web est devenu dépendant des GAFA
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2019/10/27/publicite-hebergement-open-source-comment-le-web-est-devenu-dependant-des-ga

Bien connus du grand public pour leurs services aux internautes, Google, Amazon et Facebook sont aussi très présents dans les technologies du Web, les rendant quasi indispensables. Beaucoup a été écrit sur la dépendance de l’internaute moyen aux services gratuits, performants et pratiques offerts par ceux que l’on désigne comme les « GAFA » (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon). Un aspect moins connu est en revanche la dépendance d’Internet lui-même à ces très grandes entreprises privées. Car le réseau (...)

#Alibaba #Apple #Google #Microsoft #Alibaba.com #Amazon #AWS #Facebook #smartphone #Android #domination #GAFAM (...)

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Les données de 106 millions de clients de la banque américaine Capital One piratées
▻https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2019/07/30/la-banque-americaine-capital-one-victime-d-un-piratage-massif_5494895_440899

Une femme de 33 ans a été arrêtée à Seattle, accusée par la justice américaine d’être à l’origine de l’intrusion sur un serveur et du vol d’informations personnelles de clients. C’est l’un des plus importants piratages connus ayant affecté une banque. Lundi 29 juillet, l’entreprise Capital One, dont le siège social est à Richmond (Virginie), a annoncé avoir été victime d’un piratage ayant affecté des données de 106 millions de clients – 100 millions d’Américains et six millions de Canadiens. La banque a (...)

#CapitalOne #Equifax #FBI #AWS #Amazon #hacking #données

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The Strange Politics of Facial Recognition
►https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/06/democrats-and-republicans-passing-soft-regulations/592558

Everyone seems to have found common ground on the emerging technology. That’s exactly what its makers want. Your face is no longer just your face—it’s been augmented. At a football game, your face is currency, used to buy food at the stadium. At the mall, it is a ledger, used to alert salespeople to your past purchases, both online and offline, and shopping preferences. At a protest, it is your arrest history. At the morgue, it is how authorities will identify your body. Facial-recognition (...)

#Axon #Microsoft #Amazon #AWS #algorithme #CCTV #Rekognition #biométrie #facial #vidéo-surveillance #discrimination #surveillance #ACLU (...)

##FaceAPI

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Amazon Offered Job to Pentagon Official Involved With $10 Billion Contract It Sought
▻https://theintercept.com/2019/06/03/amazon-defense-department-jedi-contract

In a federal lawsuit, the tech giant Oracle has provided new details to support its accusation that Amazon secretly negotiated a job offer with a then-Department of Defense official who helped shape the procurement process for a massive federal contract for which Amazon was a key bidder. Amazon Web Services and Microsoft are now the two finalists to win the highly contested $10 billion contract for what is known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI. The deal, one of the (...)

#USDepartmentOfDefense #Microsoft #Oracle #Amazon #AWS #corruption

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Ditch your SSH keys and enable #aws SSM!
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Photo by marcos mayer on UnsplashIf you manage AWS for an organization, big or small, chances are you have several Secure Shell (SSH) keys laying around you hardly use, OR WORSE, you don’t recall the account the key was made for. SSH key management is a rabbit hole in itself and most people understand the #security concerns that arise with improper SSH key hygiene. Luckily for us, there is a way to bid farewell to the the cumbersome practice of using SSH to remote into an EC2 instance. Allow me to introduce you the AWS service, Systems Manager (SSM).I will teach you the following in this guide:Identify SSM Remote Session Manager requirements-including for an enterpriseEnable Remote Session Manager for all EC2 instancesEnable Remote Session Manager loggingLock down Remote Session Manager (...)

#cybersecurity #devops #devsecops

Go Celebrity Spotting made easy with the #twilio API for #whatsapp, #aws #rekognition and #ruby
▻https://hackernoon.com/go-celebrity-spotting-made-easy-with-the-twilio-api-for-whatsapp-aws-rek

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Did you know you can send and receive media using the Twilio API for WhatsApp? When I found out I wanted to make something fun with it, so why not combine it with AWS Rekognition to work out if I look like any celebrities?By the end of this post, you’ll know how to build an app that lets you send an image to a WhatsApp number, download the image, analyse the image with the AWS Rekognition API and respond to say whether there are any celebrities in the picture.What you’ll needTo build this application you’ll need a few things:A Twilio account, sign up for a free one hereAn AWS accountRuby and Bundler installedngrok to help us test our webhooksGot all that? Let’s get started then.Application basicsWhen Twilio receives a WhatsApp message it will send an HTTP request, a webhook, to a URL we provide. (...)

What I learned by migrating an #rds #database into production using #aws DMS
▻https://hackernoon.com/what-i-learned-by-migrating-an-rds-database-into-production-using-aws-dm

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What I learned by migrating an RDS database into production using AWS DMS (Database Migration Service)…or how to avoid a big headache while live migrating and replicating your db instancesImage from Jan Antonin Kolar — UnsplashI am currently managing the migration of some on premise services, and other services already present on AWS under a single VPC.Having active production systems H24 7/7 it was essential to design and implement a fairly precise migration plan with a zero error margin.While regarding services like EC2 instances, EFS, Security Group, Target Group and Load Balancer the transition was quite simple, I encountered some obstacles during the migration of our RDS database (MariaDB) from one VPC to another.For this task the native Amazon service, DMS (Database Migration Service) (...)

#cloud #cloud-computing

The Definitive Crash Course on #serverless with #aws: Centralized logging with Kinesis and Lambda
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-definitive-crash-course-on-serverless-with-aws-centralized-logging-w

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Don’t you just hate it when APIs are failing and you have absolutely no clue why? Now imagine you don’t have access to the VM, cluster or container where your software is running. Want me to continue with this nightmare?Yes, that’s what debugging AWS Lambda functions tends to seem like. A horrid nightmare of not knowing what is happening nor why things are failing. This article will show you a way of logging function invocations. Letting you track and monitor failures and errors, while also giving you a nice structure for logging info and debug logs for when you need to troubleshoot behavior.The key is to send all logs to a central location where you can later group, filter and make sense of them. Sematext is a full-stack observability solution for your entire software stack. Meaning you (...)

#monitoring #aws-lambda #programming

Observability Without Having to Break the Bank
▻https://hackernoon.com/observability-without-having-to-break-the-bank-7ebbc861245f?source=rss--

To run a #serverless application in production reliably, you need to be able to debug issues quickly. You need to have good observability, and having structured logs is a big part of that. They allow you to capture useful contextual information with each log message.But observability comes with a cost.The ProblemCloudWatch Logs charges $0.50 for per GB of data ingested, and $0.03 per GB per month for storage. As such, it’s common for companies to spend more on CloudWatch Logs than Lambda invocations in their production environment. Best practices such as using structured logs further exasperate the cost associated with logging.Furthermore, with #aws Lambda, it’s no longer possible to rely on agents to collect and publish observability data such as custom metrics and traces. Instead, you have (...)

#aws-lambda #cloud #cloud-computing

Quickly Debug Your #aws #lambda Functions
▻https://hackernoon.com/quickly-debug-your-aws-lambda-functions-b9b0d7cb6096?source=rss----3a814

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Great writers use metaphors to get their point across so let me give that a try real quick. Bugs are nasty little pests, mm’key? It’s hard to get rid of them but apart of just spraying poison everywhere, there are only a few options left. One of those options is using a natural predator to those bugs, a predator like birds. So birds can help you get rid of bugs. I work for a company called Dashbird that help developers debug their AWS Lambda applications. See what I did there? Pests\bugs <-> birds\Dashbirds? Clever, right? Now, who do I need to call for my Pulitzer Prize?Main Reasons For Using AWS Lambda FunctionsOne of the AWS Lambda perks is that as AWS claim “You can forget all about project’s infrastructure and focus solely on launching apps in the cloud while you’ll be able to (...)

#serverless #debugging

#dns 101
▻https://hackernoon.com/dns-101-fdcbdbe9ccf6?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

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▻https://medium.com/media/a0a23c93ed5dce1af090260ec69339f5/hrefJon Christensen and Chris Hickman of Kelsus teach a primer on the domain name system (DNS) and explain what happens when someone types a URL (i.e., Internet link) into a browser. They demystify the flow process to help you understand how DNS works and the mechanics involved.Some of the highlights of the show include:What is DNS? Fundamental past and present protocol for Internet; connection is made via friendly Internet Protocol (IP) address to identify and map servers within a networkDNS and IP address offer scalability through levels of hierarchy (.com, .net, .org)DNS servers act as authoritative source for domain names they own and manage; servers can host multiple zones and levels to segment URL namespaceBenefits of DNS: (...)

#elastic-container-service #tech-podcasts #dns-podcast #aws

How to Add a Cache Layer to #serverless #graphql #appsync API
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-to-add-a-cache-layer-to-appsync-dynamodb-resolver-be924842916b?sourc

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In this post, I show an example of simple application based on the Serverless framework. The application uses Amazon Appsync, Lambda, DynamoDB, Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX), to demonstrate how to use Amazon DAX as caching layer in front of #aws Appsync Resolvers.Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX) is a fully managed, highly available, in-memory cache for DynamoDB that delivers up to a 10x performance improvement — from milliseconds to microseconds — even at millions of requests per second.A simple serverless CMSThe example application in this post is a simple CMS. I use Serverless framework templates to simplify the setup for Appsync. The sections in template that create the Appsync, Dynamodb, Cognito identity pool and user pool, DAX cluster, roles, security groups, and subnet groups, and (...)

#dynamodb-accelerator

Building a Fully #serverless Realtime CMS using AWS #appsync and #aurora Serverless
▻https://hackernoon.com/building-a-fully-serverless-realtime-cms-using-aws-appsync-and-aurora-se

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AWS made a serverless option of AWS RDS Aurora generally available, It would mean a breakthrough in building fully serverless architectures with relational database. No more managing connection pools with SQL, No more worrying about RDS instances, Cost is based on the compute time services are consumed, and there is no charge when code is not running.In this post , my goal was to build a fully-functional AWS AppSync-driven backend and #react frontend of a post management app. The app will deliver end users a set of features that allow public users view posts, admin users add/delete post, Let’s start!Application ArchitectureThe application architecture uses:Serverless frameworkAWS AppsyncAWS Cognito Userpool and Identity PoolAWS Aurora ServerlessAWS LambdaPrerequisitesThe following must be (...)

#aws-lambda

Building a #serverless Data Pipeline with #aws S3 Lamba and DynamoDB
▻https://hackernoon.com/build-a-serverless-data-pipeline-with-aws-s3-lamba-and-dynamodb-5ecb8c3e

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AWS Lambda plus Layers is one of the best solutions for managing a data pipeline and for implementing a serverless architecture. This post shows how to build a simple data pipeline using AWS Lambda Functions, S3 and DynamoDB.What this pipeline accomplishes?Every day an external datasource exports data to S3 and imports to AWS DynamoDB table.PrerequisitesServerless frameworkPython3.6PandasdockerHow this pipeline worksOn a daily basis, an external data source exports data of the pervious day in csv format to an S3 bucket. S3 event triggers an AWS Lambda Functions that do ETL process and save the data to DynamoDB.Install Serverless FrameworkBefore getting started, Install the Serverless Framework. Open up a terminal and type npm install -g serverless to install Serverless framework.Create (...)

#data-pipeline #python #lambda-layer

Running #selenium and Headless Chrome on #aws Lambda Layers
▻https://hackernoon.com/running-selenium-and-headless-chrome-on-aws-lambda-layers-python-3-6-bd8

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Selenium and Headless Chrome on AWS Lambda LayersAWS has extended the timeout limit for Lambda functions from 5 to 15 minutes, also AWS released new Lambda layers feature at re:Invent 2018, with these new features, we can now move Selenium tests to server-less frameworks without any performance issues!After many attempts of using different version of chrome drivers and binaries — I eventually find a way to get it work — ChromeDriver was able to run and interact with Headless Chrome inside a Lambda Layer.I created #serverless Framework (≥1.34.0) project to publish and use Lambda Layers with Selenium and Headless Chrome, thus team is able to do UI test using Python without running Selenium on server or local machine.Selenium and Headless ChromeIncompatible versions of serverless-chrome, (...)

#lambda-layer #python3

Comparing Nuclio and #aws Lambda
▻https://hackernoon.com/comparing-nuclio-and-aws-lambda-14e94c8f1b01?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3-

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Comparing AWS Lambda and NuclioWith #serverless, you delegate the responsibility of running your infrastructure to a platform provider as much as possible. This frees your engineers to focus on building what your customers want from you — the features that differentiate your business from your competitors’. For this philosophy to work, however, the platform needs to not only give you the tools to build those features, but also deliver the performance that will keep engineers satisfied.Yes, services such as AWS Lambda are powerful, but they have a number of well-documented limitations that make them unsuitable for some workloads. These include:Cold starts and high latency make them unsuitable for real-time applications that require consistent and millisecond-level response times.The (...)

#aws-lambda #aws-lambda-and-nuclio

Searching #dynamodb : An indexer sidecar for #elasticsearch
▻https://hackernoon.com/searching-dynamodb-an-indexer-sidecar-for-elasticsearch-6e70f2abf676?sou

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TLDR;DynamoDB is great, but partitioning and searching are hardWe built alternator and migration-service to make life easierWe open sourced a sidecar to index DynamoDB tables in Elasticsearch that you should totes use. Here’s the code.When we embarked on Bitbucket Pipelines more than three years ago we had little experience using #nosql databases. But as a small team looking to produce quality at speed, we decided on DynamoDB as a managed service with great availability and scalability characteristics. Three years on, we’ve learnt a lot about how to use and how to not use DynamoDB, and we’ve built some things along the way that might be useful to other teams or that could be absorbed by the ever growing platform.To NoSQL or not to NoSQL that is the questionFirst off the bat, relational (...)

#programming #aws

Cloud cost hacking
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One of the primary motivations for using the cloud are flexibility and cost saving. The problem is that without ongoing management and oversight, the cloud budget can grow to dimensions that eliminate profitability.A recent study on the cost of using the cloud has shown that companies pay an average of 35% more on cloud services than they really should. A total of over $60 billion is being wasted on cloud services that are not in use.In this article, I will share my conclusions from recent cloud cost optimization processes and review a number of ways and tools to significantly reduce cloud costs 30–50%, without sacrificing performance. The recommendations in this article are valid for all cloud vendors unless otherwise specified.Tools for managing cloud costsBefore you start saving it is (...)

#devops #google-cloud-platform #cloud-computing #azure #aws

Tutorial: how to extend #aws #ebs volumes with no downtime
▻https://hackernoon.com/tutorial-how-to-extend-aws-ebs-volumes-with-no-downtime-ec7d9e82426e?sou

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This can be applied whenever you need to extend your EBS volume size avoiding to stop the instance and detach the volume.Cool if you need to do it on prod, right ? :)In order to extend the volume size, follow these simple steps:Login to your AWS consoleChoose “EC2” from the services listClick on “Volumes” under ELASTIC BLOCK STORE menu (on the left)Choose the volume that you want to resize, right click on “Modify Volume”You’ll see an option window like this one:6. Set the new size for your EBS volume (in this case i extended an 8GB volume to 20GB)7. Click on modify.Now, we need to extend the partition itself.SSH to the EC2 instance where the EBS we’ve just extended is attached to.Type the following command to list our block devices:[ec2-user ~]$ lsblkYou should be able to see a similar output:NAME (...)

#cloud-storage #cloud

How to FaaS like a pro: 12 uncommon ways to invoke your #serverless functions on #aws [Part 1]
▻https://hackernoon.com/how-to-faas-like-a-pro-12-uncommon-ways-to-invoke-your-serverless-functi

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Yes, this is you at the end of this article, contemplating new possibilities! [Photo by Joshua Earle on Unsplash]If you feel like skipping the brief introduction below, you can jump straight to the first four uncommon trigger with these shortlinks:Amazon Cognito User Pools — Users management & custom workflowsAWS Config — Event-driven configuration checksAmazon Kinesis Data Firehose — Data ingestion & validationAWS CloudFormation — IaC, Macros & custom transformsA bit of history firstWhen AWS Lambda became generally available on April 9th, 2015 it became the first Function-as-a-Service out there, and there were only a few ways you could trigger your functions besides direct invocation: Amazon S3, Amazon Kinesis, and Amazon SNS. Three months later we got Amazon API Gateway support, (...)

#programming #nodejs #python

Visualizing Cold Starts
▻https://hackernoon.com/visualizing-cold-starts-ddb7c3267419?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

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I wrote a lot about cold starts of #serverless functions. The articles are full of charts and numbers which are hopefully useful but might be hard to internalize. I decided to come up with a way to represent colds starts visually.I created HTTP functions that serve geographic maps (map credit Open Street Map). The map is a combination of small square tiles; each tile is 256 by 256 pixels. My selected map view consists of 12 tiles, so 12 requests are made to the serverless function to load a single view.During each experiment, I load the map and then zoom-in three times. The very first view hits the function in a cold state. Subsequently, the zoomed views are loaded from the warm function. There is a timer next to the map which shows the total time elapsed since the beginning until the (...)

#azure #google-cloud-platform #visualization #aws

Câbles sous-marins d’Internet : « Les risques de tension sont extrêmement réels »
▻https://usbeketrica.com/article/cables-sous-marins-internet-risques-tension-reels

Peut-on éteindre Internet ? On a posé la question à Jean-Luc Vuillemin, directeur des Réseaux Internationaux d’Orange, dans le cadre du dossier à la Une du dernier numéro d’Usbek & Rica, qui explore les futurs possibles d’Internet. L’Internet « sans fil » ne l’est pas : tous nos échanges reposent sur la fiabilité de quelques centaines de câbles sous-marins, posés au fond de l’océan, comme nous l’expliquions sur notre site fin 2017 (Les câbles d’Internet : qui sont-ils, quels sont leurs réseaux ?). Le (...)

#Google #Microsoft #Orange #Amazon #AWS #domination #concurrence #neutralité

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