AWS Cloud Skills Pay off, Tech Salary report Says Cloud skills are paying dividends in today’s tech sector, a new report by careers site Dice states. Amazon-related skills are among the most lucrative. AWS services are found all over the top-paying skills lists, even taking two of five top salary slots. Placing No. No. 3 is Amazon DynamoDB. Next is Amazon Redshift which provides more than $125,000 per annum in average salary. These are the top five entries to that list:
Go programming language (Golang), $132,827 Kafka: $127,554 Amazon DynamoDB: $125 554 Amazon Redshift: $125,000.090 Cassandra: $124,152 Overall, Dice’s annual salary study for tech professionals shows low unemployment and stagnant wages. However, other factors than salary can affect job choices for developers and other professionals who are willing to move on. The tech careers specialist Dice…
AWS Cloud Monitoring is closer to ‘Real Time.’
Amazon Web Services (AWS), customers can now collect metrics from cloud-based applications and resources at second-long intervals. CloudWatch, the company’s monitoring tool, was recently updated to support “high-resolution custom measurements.” Users can now publish data from applications and resources running on AWS cloud in increments of one second. This is a significant reduction from the…
AWS Cloud Gets a New Software Defined Perimeter Offering Safe-T, an Israeli security specialist, has launched a Software Defined Perimeter offering for Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS). Safe-T Software defined Perimeter 3.51 is now available on the AWS Marketplace. This allows users to securely access cloud services without needing to use a virtual private networking (VPN). SDP supports protocols such as HTTP/S, RDH5 or WebDAV. It also provides access for partners and remote users for internal services, according to the company. This includes Web, Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), NTFS and e-mail. The company is a “Zero Trust provider” and offers Secure Access solutions for hybrid cloud environments. It also claims that its offering includes a “Bring Your Own License” model flexibility. Eitan Bremler, a company executive, stated that more and more organizations are shifting to the cloud to reduce costs and increase agility. “With the introduction on AWS Marketplace of our SDP solution, we can now reach more businesses and help them to secure their cloud, data and application access through easy and quick subscriptions to Safe-T’s SDP.” SDP, according to the company’s Web site, can be used to bypass VPN access.
Firewall is always in a deny all state. Access is not required to any open ports (inbound or external). Supports a variety applications: HTTP/S and SMTP, SFTP and SSH, APIs, RDH5, RDH5, WebDAV. Bi-directional traffic can be handled by outbound connections between the LAN and the outside world. On-demand, new reverse-access rules are defined Client-free…
AWS Cloud Expands North to Canada
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), officially switched the switch on its first Canadian territory this month. “We are expanding the AWS footprint once more. Our new Canada (Central) “Region is now available and can be used immediately,” stated Jeff Barr, AWS evangelist, in a blog post last Wednesday announcing the new region. AWS announced the…
AWS Closes the Gap Between Aurora and Other Services
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has added new features in its Aurora relational database engine to improve its integration with other AWS services. The MySQL-compatible Aurora database was launched just over a decade ago. According to AWS, it is now the fastest-growing product. Two new features were announced Tuesday to improve Aurora’s interaction with Lambda,…
AWS Accelerates Service Expansions Amazon Web Services (AWS), spent the first half this month expanding global access to many of its services. The second half was no different. Here’s a list of the most recent AWS service expansions.
The company also added support for AWS Deep Learning AMIs from its Ohio, Sydney and Tokyo regions. AWS Batch can now be used in Ohio, London Frankfurt, Sydney, Tokyo and Frankfurt. Amazon Athena is also available in the Tokyo region. Amazon RDS can now be run via the Sao Paulo region using the general-purpose M4…
Ellen Maynes: Inspiring Women in Project Management
Do you think project management is about building bridges and IT systems? What if I said that project managers were involved in brokering peace around the world? Yes. Today’s interview features Ellen Maynes, a project management consultant, 2016 Global Peace Fellow and one of my most fascinating people. Ellen may inspire you to take project…
Electronic filing for projects
Most of my projects over my career involved people who work together. I can recall working with a team that I had to create from scratch. They were newcomers and had never worked on a project together. It was helpful to have a few rituals that could be used to explain what a project is,…
Eight random facts about me
Mike Ramm from Stop and Think tagged me for this meme back in August. Although I don’t know where it came from, the rules for the 8 Random Facts About Me meme can be found here: Each player begins with 8 random facts/habits about himself that others don’t know. Taggers must create their own blog…
Global Knowledge
Cybersecurity is one the most important areas of work in today’s world. It is a constantly changing discipline that requires constant education and adaptability, even for cybersecurity experts. The traditional definition of expertise must change. Industry experts no longer need to maintain their expertise by attaining a certain level and then leading companies, managing employees,…