Talking Covid-19 with Amazon Lex

Over the last few days I have had a chance to play with Amazon Lex, and used the time to make a simple bot for the current hot topic – Covid 19 statistics.

OUR FIRST DRIVE OF AWS CHATBOT

AWS recently announced ChatBot integration with Chime and Slack… let’s see how easy it is to set up and get running.

You’ve tried Amazon WorkSpaces; here are the questions you should ask before running at scale

Amazon WorkSpaces is a managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution. As a remote or office-based worker, you can ‘remote desktop’ into your own Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) environment and work from wherever, on whatever local device you want.

New Call Centre Experience using Amazon Connect

Recently I had the opportunity to attend the AWS Partner bootcamp program for Amazon Connect. To my surprise, having never worked closely with the product previously, it didn’t take long to find my way around and, with its UI simplicities and clear guidance from AWS, to be able to start implementing a semi-advanced call centre solution.

Are You Well Architected?

Through continuous compliance, continuous integration and continuous delivery we’ve reduced the cycle time for deploying changes – but how do you know these are the right changes? Enter the AWS Well Architected Framework.

Automating DMS Endpoint S3 Target with a CloudFormation Custom Resource

Whether you are establishing an AWS Data Lake, or migrating services to the cloud, the AWS Database Migration Service (DMS) should be a tool in your toolkit. DMS is a relatively straight forward service to configure and supported by AWS Cloudformation, however there is a specific pattern that requires a customised process. Enter CloudFormation Lambda backed Custom Resources which we can leverage to automate these processes and continue to reap the benefits of deployed resources via CloudFormation

Easy remote workforce hacks for maintaining engagement and velocity within Agile Delivery Teams

With the current environment world-wide requiring more and more of our workforce to work from home (remotely), businesses are increasingly worried about losing delivery velocity due to employee disengagement as a result of large periods of remote only contact.

Getting Started with AWS CodeCommit

Cevo uses federated access to our AWS accounts via the Google SAML based Single Sign On (SSO) – we want to start using AWS CodeCommit to store our version controlled codebases – how well will git play with this combination of tools?

Exploring Amazon Sagemaker Studio and AutoPilot

SageMaker Studio was announced at AWS re:Invent 2019, as a web-based IDE for working with Machine Learning models. It incorporates the other SageMaker components also released at the same time: AutoPilot, Debugger, Model Monitor, and Notebooks.

Hands On With Codeguru Reviewer

CodeGuru is a service announced at AWS re:Invent 2019, which aims to bring the power of machine learning to improving the quality of source code.