We are launching the Cognitive API Integrator today for developers, Engineering Managers, CIOs or anyone who needs to choose a Cognitive Service provider to build out a business service. Our Cognitive API Integrator aggregates cognitive services across major providers (currently Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services & Google Cloud) and provides all the results against a […]
Category Archives: Amazon Web Services
Alexa tell me your Dev gotchas in 5 mins!!
Recently a customer wanted to experiment with Alexa for interacting with end users instead of having them select a bunch of options from a web/mobile app. Here is how Alexa works when defining a Custom Skill which is what we needed to make. We decided to do a quick POC in order to estimate […]
Save some bucks on AWS with these pointers(Part 1)
Are you sure your ISV has kept these simple pointers in mind when deploying your multi-module app on AWS?? Instance Addressing All Amazon EC2 instances are assigned two IP addresses at launch: a private address (RFC 1918) and a public address that are directly mapped to each other through Network Address Translation (NAT). Private addresses […]
Do you want to Stop or Terminate your EC2 instance?? What happens to your backup??
So you are done for the day and stop your EC2 Instance. But are you sure you want to “stop” and not “terminate” it? What’s the difference? Stop You can stop an Amazon EBS-backed instance, but not an Amazon S3-backed instance. Stopping causes the instance to stop running (its status goes from running to stopping […]
Gearing up for AWS EC2:- Step 1. Decide your backup!
Ready to deploy your application on the Amazon Cloud? You told your service integrator to provision a machine and put up your app. Did you discuss with him what kind of storage and back up your application would get? Most types of instances include a fixed amount of storage space on which you can […]