Okay, hello,Cloud Gurus, how y'all doing?
I'm Scott Pletcher here with you for another week of AWS goodness.
AWS takes the spreadsheet as an enterprise application development platform
paradigm to a new level. This week,
solutions constructs have been added to the AWS Solutions Library.
Get ready to let your musical talent shine with a new DeepComposer contest.
And of course, we announced the guru of the week,
right here on AWS.
This Week.
This week amid the collective groan of corporate IT departments everywhere,
AWS empowered all those shadow IT organizations and summer interns
with the ability to easily create new data-driven applications with zero
coding ability.
Amazon Honeycode was released in beta form this week and offers
builders the ability to create mobile and web applications using a
simple web based IDE.
This fully managed service aims to bring power to the non-coding
people by extending the ever enduring spreadsheet as a database paradigm
out to anybody with a browser or a mobile device.
I can almost hear those corporate firewall blacklists being updated
as I speak. In the past, we have talked about AWS DeepComposer,
which is a service that lets you lay down some tasty licks and learn about a
very interesting part of machine learning,
known as generative adversarial networks. Now, sure,
up to this point it's been all fun and games,
but things got real this week when AWS announced the DeepComposer Chartbuster
contest,
a series of monthly challenges designed to let you explore machine learning
methods in a very accessible manner and potentially win some prizes
for your original machine assisted compositions. Now,
as we've seen with DeepRacer,
gamification tends to amp up the participation and the quality.
So get ready for some sick, deep learning beats.
If you're ready to jump into the mosh pit yourself,
we have some great content on the A Cloud Guru platform around DeepComposer,
including a Release \Review from Nick Triantafillou and a whole
series on the topic by our very own Kesha Williams,
taking you from zero to complete DeepComposer hero in no
time flat. Coming from an architect background,
I am a big fan of the AWS Solutions Library. If you're not familiar,
it is a collection of deployable cloud-based architectures,
specifically designed and vetted by AWS technical architects.
Now these not only serve as rapidly deployable application stacks,
but also as best practice model architectures,
from which you can learn a lot. Recently,
AWS extended the Solutions Library by adding solutions constructs.
These are a set of commonly used architectural design patterns
that you can plug right into your infrastructure as a code workflow
constructs like API Gateway connected to a Lambda function or S3
bucket connected to a step function can be scripted with little more than a
method call using the AWS Cloud Development Kit. Pretty cool, huh.
And now on to everyone's favorite, the Guru of the Week!
This week's winner is Shrinidhi G,
a DevOps engineer from Bangalore, India. Congratulations Shrinidhi,
a fabulous swag pack is on its way to you as I speak.
And you've also been entered into a draw to win a ticket to the 2020
reInvent event, if that event does still go on. That,
my friends, is all the AWS news that's fit to print this week. Until next time,
take care of one another, be safe and keep being awesome Cloud Gurus.
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