The affected apps are connecting to unsecured databases on popular enterprise services such as Elasticsearch or MySQL, which are leaking large amounts sensitive data. Apps that used just one of these services exposed almost 43TB of data. Multiple affected apps were able to leak PII including passwords and travel details, payment details, location and travel…
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Rockset Announces Real-Time SQL Analytics on Amazon DynamoDB NoSQL Database Service California’s Rockset announced that its serverless search engine and analytics engine now performs real-time SQL analysis on the NoSQL Amazon DynamoDB data service. This functionality is what the company specializes in, so it points its SQL-based analysis engine to NoSQL storage stores like Kafka and S3 storage bins, as well as Amazon DynamoDB. Amazon DynamoDB, a key-value, document and key-value database that Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), touts for its many capabilities, including backing Web-scale apps such as social networks and gaming, media sharing and the Internet of Things (IoT), but not for performing analytical queries, Rockset stated in an announcement. The company stated that DynamoDB usage is maturing in organizations. “There is an increasing need to operational analytics and real time business reporting on it. This requires the ability search transactional data and run aggregations, and join the data with others.” Rockset pointed out that DynamoDB was not designed for large-scale data fetches or scan operations. AWS wrote about DynamoDB in a blog post. Complex queries against DynamoDB are also limited by limitations, such as the inability to support powerful SQL functions like group by, having and intersect, joins, and joins. Developers have the opportunity to use Rockset’s ability for SQL analytical queries to be run on NoSQL data.
Visualize DynamoDB data using leading SQL-based visualization software, including BI market leader Tableau and Apache Superset, Redash, Redash, Grafana and Redash in real time. Create interactive dashboards and real time applications with SQL on DynamoDB data. Join DynamoDB data to data in Kafka stream streams, Amazon Kinesis, or Amazon S3. Rockset stressed that its engine…
The Best Approaches to AWS Identity & Access Management
Identity and Access Management, also known as IAM, is a term you will often encounter across AWS. It is important to understand how it works. IAM, as the name suggests, is a permission framework that restricts access to AWS services. It helps to define who has access in an AWS account. IAM users allow you…
Feds Identify Cloud among the Top 5 Threats to Electronic Health Data
A U.S. agency has identified cloud-borne security threats to be one of the biggest problems facing the health care industry, as they are increasingly affecting health care organizations. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center published a report naming “cloud threats” among the top five security problems facing electronic…
Federated identity Management
The concepts of ‘Single Sign On’ and ‘Identity Management’ are the roots of Federated Identity Management. These concepts are essential to fully understand “Federated Identity Management”. “Identity management” is the process of authenticating and authorizing individuals at different levels within an organization in order to allow them access to the right amount of resources on…
AWS integrates Lambda with Microsoft PowerShell Core 6.0
Amazon Web Services (AWS), recently announced support for PowerShell Core 6.0 in the Lambda serverless computing platform. Microsoft has developed PowerShell Core, an open-source, cross-platform automation platform for Linux, Windows, and macOS. Version 6.0 was released in January, and version 6.1 was released just this month. AWS announced PowerShell Core support for Lambda in 6.0,…
AWS IDs Competent Partners in New Cloud Management Tool Competency
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), has added a category to its competency program to highlight those partners who are skilled in certain areas. In this case, it is cloud management tools. The new Cloud Management Tools Competency identifies AWS Partners with expertise in three areas: Cloud Governance, Administration & Provisioning, and Resource & Cost Optimization….
AWS, IBM, and Azure Top-Ranked In Big Data Study A study that evaluated the user satisfaction of Big Data vendors found that Amazon Web Services (AWS) received the highest scores. Next came IBM and Microsoft Azure. Info-Tech Research Group subsidiary SoftwareReviews compiled the study in February. It rated seven Big Data software vendors in four categories: vendor capabilities and product features, likelihood to recommend, and “net emotional footprint”, which assesses each vendor’s fairness and trustworthiness based on user perceptions. These four scores were then combined to create a “composite Score” for each vendor. AWS’ Big Data portfolio was the best-performing vendor, scoring 8.1 out 10 in a composite score. AWS was followed by IBM InfoSphere, Azure, and both received 8 out of 10. SoftwareReviews placed AWS in the “Leader” quadrant of its study. [Click on the image for a larger view] The company stated that each of the three winners in big data received a very high Net Emo Footprint score, ranging from 82% to 85%, which is significantly higher than the average score (77%).” “Amazon Web Services Big Data users loved its analytics, data science tools and data security the most, earning top product for each. IBM InfoSphere was voted the best product for metadata management and second for its real-time capabilities. Microsoft Azure Big Data was the top-ranked product for workload management, monitoring, analytics and reporting. The scores of the remaining vendors were as follows:
Hortonworks: 7.9 of 10 Cloudera: 7.9 of 10 SAS: 7.8 out 10 Vertica: 7.5/10 SoftwareReviews used “feedback from IT professionals and business professionals” to compile the data for its vendor rankings. A preview of the findings can be found here.
AWS How-To: How to Use AWS To Host WordPress
Although it’s easy to think of Amazon Web Services as a solution for hosting virtual machines, allocating cloud storage, and other IaaS-related tasks Amazon Web Services can also be used for Web applications hosting. AWS makes it easy to create your WordPress site. Log into AWS and click on the Elastic Compute Cloud option to…
AWS How-To Part 2: Using AWS Enterprise Document Storage
In the first part, I discussed how Amazon Web Services (AWS), WorkDocs could help with enterprise document storage. You can also learn how to create a directory environment. I will continue the discussion with this article by showing you how to use your directory environment to create WorkDocs. Once you have created or specified a…