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Defense in Depth approach using AWS

Defense in depth is a layered approach to vulnerability management that reduces risk.
The Defense in Depth approach is implemented by utilizing AWS services such as EC2, Application Load Balancer, Web Application Firewall, Route 53, and Amazon Certificate Manager.
The first step is to create a custom VPC with two public and private subnets, where each subnet has its own Network Access Control List.
To achieve high availability, two EC2 instances with a basic application are launched in public subnets, with Security Groups allowing ports 80 and 443.
An Application Load Balancer is created in front of EC2 instances, which acts as a server and distributes traffic, ensuring high availability and providing SSL/TLS security, DDoS protection, and Web Application Firewall.
Custom domain names are created in Route 53, with SSL/TLS certificates being added using the AWS Certificate Manager service.
The HTTP:80 Listener is redirected to the HTTPS:443 Listener, with proper forwarding to the target group and ACM certificate.
The Network ACL is updated to only allow HTTPS traffic.
Optionally, CloudFront can be set up alongside the Application Load Balancer to enhance security.
The Defense in Depth approach with AWS services ensures multiple layers of security to protect cloud infrastructure.

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Harnessing Amazon Bedrock to Automate Knowledge Graph Creation

The author explores the use of Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Neptune to automate knowledge graph creation.
The experiment focuses on creating a knowledge graph for a banking onboarding use case.
The article discusses the process of setting up connections to Amazon Bedrock and Neptune.
The LLMGraphTransformer class is used to transform output from the LLM into a structure for the knowledge graph.

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Semantic Kernel: Using Memories to Create Intelligent AI Agents

Semantic Kernel uses memories to enable intelligent AI agents to recall relevant information from past interactions and provide context-aware responses.
Memories help agents learn from experience, personalize their behavior, and provide intelligent and consistent user experiences.
There are two types of memory storage mechanisms in Semantic Kernel: volatile memory and non-volatile memory.
Semantic Memory, which is a library within the Semantic Kernel SDK, and Kernel Memory, a service that can run in the background, are the two ways to store agentic memory in Semantic Kernel.
Semantic Memory is not a deployable service, whereas Kernel Memory is a deployable service, making it a more reasonable option for building an enterprise-grade solution.
Volatile memory holds data for the duration of an interaction, whereas non-volatile memory is stored long-term and can be accessed across different sessions.
Kernel Memory combines multiple types of memories to manage context and state within an application, making it more a more comprehensive memory management layer than Semantic Memory.
The fundamental difference between Semantic Memory and Kernel Memory is that the former operates as a library within Semantic Kernel and the latter as a deployable service.
The comparison table included in the article can help you decide which memory storage mechanism to opt for based on your requirements.
Creating a simple implementation of Semantic Memory involves creating a new memory system, choosing a text embedding model and memory storage mechanism, and adding contents to the memory store.

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Intel finally confirms instability issues with 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUs are fully fixed – but some owners may still be worried

Intel has confirmed that stability issues with its 13th and 14th-gen CPUs have been fully fixed.
The 'Vmin shift instability' was identified as the root cause of the issue.
Users need to update their BIOS with the latest microcode updates to avoid degradation or instability.
Intel has extended the warranty on affected chips to five years, but concerns about long-term degradation remain.

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AWS Free Tier Services🕵

AWS offers free access to many services, organized into three categories: Always Free, 12-Month Free Tier, and Trials.
Key free services include Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon RDS, and Amazon CloudFront.
Important usage notes include monitoring usage, being mindful of limitations and common pitfalls, and checking service eligibility and limits regularly.
For more information, visit the AWS Free Tier website at https://aws.amazon.com/free.

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Boost Your AWS Backup in 5 Minutes: Automate EBS Snapshots with CloudWatch

AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) provides persistent block storage for Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) instances, enabling running containerized applications, big data analytics, and many other use cases.
EBS's ability to capture snapshots of your volumes provides data protection against potential data loss.
AWS offers incremental snapshots allowing you to only capture the data that has changed since the initial backup, reducing redundant data duplication.
Automating your EBS snapshots enables efficient data backup and saves you time and effort through services such as the Lifecycle Manager EBS service and AWS Backup.
Sharing your EBS volume snapshots across regions allows you to expand your operations across the globe, and distribute snapshots among multiple accounts.
EBS automation can be challenging due to scalability, a dynamic environment, and ensuring automated backups' reliability.
AWS CloudWatch Events enable scheduled snapshots generation through rule creation, validation, and snapshot verification and disabling the rule to prevent additional snapshots.
CloudWatch Events automation approach allows you to programmatically automate snapshots using Lambda functions.
Automating your snapshots enables safe and efficient data backup, saving you time and effort.
To maximize the benefits of AWS, you need to be aware of the challenges associated with EBS automation concerned about scalability, a dynamic environment, and automated backup reliability.

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This week on theCUBE Pod: The historic OpenAI funding round and Salesforce’s integration opportunity

OpenAI raised $6.6 billion from its recent funding round, generating significant attention in the tech community. The amount of cash generated is historic, indicating a generational shift driven by a belief that AI is the biggest tech wave in the history of waves
However, it poses some important questions for industry analysts. Will it be a $1tn company? Can it continue to dominate? What do they have to do to maintain their competitive position? Do they have to build their own cloud? Additionally, OpenAI has two years to achieve for-profit status; if it doesn't, investors can appeal for their funds back
Though OpenAI's position is strong, it faces competition from Google. Google is hitting the next generation of developers that are in their 20s with its technology
Salesforce Inc. recently unveiled plans for the future of Salesforce's agentic platform, which according to Dave vellante, co-founder of Wikibon, makes sense. Salesforce has struggled with integration in the past, but now has an opportunity given its strong ecosystem play for AI
Vellante said he loved Salesforce's strategy. Salesforce now has a chance to integrate all the various components it's purchased for building out the harmonization layer and the agent control framework
The Tableau keynote at Dreamforce is well worth a watch. The keynote describes what the future of BI is going to look like, what the future of the application stack is going to look like, and how integration should occur
Vellante recommends people listen to the Tableau keynote at Dreamforce if they want to see the future of BI/application stack and Salesforce's opportunity for integration
Listen to TheCUBE Pod, theCUBE Research founders John Furrier and Dave Vellante discuss in-depth the OpenAI's funding round, ways to maintain competitiveness, cloud infrastructure, Salesforce's AI strategy and more
Join the community; subscribe to TheCUBE Pod’s RSS feed, on Apple Podcasts or on Spotify. For those preferring the video version, visit TheCUBE's YouTube playlist and join the conversation

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Installing Supervisor On Amazon Linux 2023

This guide provides steps to install Supervisor on Amazon Linux 2023 using Pip.
Supervisor is not included in the default RPM packages of Amazon Linux, making it challenging to manage processes effectively.
To install Supervisor, ensure Python and Pip are installed on your instance, then run the command 'sudo pip install supervisor'.
Customize the Supervisor configuration file according to your requirements and start the service using 'sudo supervisord -c /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf'.

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6 Surprising Reasons to Ditch Monolithic and Microservices for a Hybrid Approach Now

In today's digital landscape, organizations are combining monolithic and microservices architectures for IT needs. A hybrid microservices platform is the way forward because it offers both microservices' flexibility and agility as well as monolithic performance and robust coupling.
The exponential growth of storage volumes and the advent of high-performance transient processing engines have marked the beginning of the In-Memory Computing (IMC) era. Low Latency Distributed Microservices (LLDM) resulted from it.
Caching technologies provide a solution to performance challenges that other storage volumes have been unable to tackle. However, they introduce new challenges, such as eventual consistency and Non-transactional platforms limitations.
A purely monolithic approach is no longer viable, and a purely microservices approach is not ideal. To handle the ever-growing real-time challenges, we need to embrace a hybrid approach, combining both approaches' benefits.
XAP's microservices distributed platform offers a no-compromise approach, enabling the decoupling of services while simultaneously boosting performance.
XAP microservices architecture stands out as the only platform capable of tackling intricacies by leveraging a unique deployment unit (DU) or processing unit (PU) mechanism. It encompass the definition of artifacts with interdependent lifecycles.
The XAP microservices platform is the only way to combine the benefits of the monolithic approach with all the advantages of microservices. It offers exacting governance over modular architecture, eliminates inter-process dependencies, and ensures data integrity and consistency across sites.
Implementing microservices-oriented systems across industries demands attention to performance and scalability. Relying solely on caching, database, and messaging systems as data state management and transfer fabrics makes it nearly impossible to achieve real-time microservices architecture. XAP empowers the delivery of real-time microservices that seamlessly integrate with your existing IaaS/PaaS, providing cost-effective, agile, event-driven applications.
Neither a purely monolithic nor microservices approach is sufficient for complex enterprise systems. A hybrid solution, combined with a cloud-native approach, delivers a robust, highly available, distributed, scalable, and encapsulated services deployment infrastructure.

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Quordle today – hints and answers for Sunday, October 6 (game #986)

Quordle is still going strong now nearly 1,000 games later. It offers a genuine challenge, though, so read on if you need some Quordle hints today – or scroll down further for the answers.
Get Quordle hints and answers for Sunday, October 6 (game #986) here.
The number of different vowels in Quordle today is 4.
The number of Quordle answers containing a repeated letter today is 0.
None of Q, Z, X or J appear among today's Quordle answers.
The number of today's Quordle answers starting with the same letter is 0.
Today's Quordle answers start with F, T, B, and R respectively.
The answers to today's Quordle, game #986, are FUDGE, TENOR, BEGAT, ROUSE.
Both BEGAT and ROUSE are relatively uncommon words.
The past 20 Quordle answers have also been shared in the article.

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NYT Strands today — hints, answers and spangram for Sunday, October 6 (game #217)

NYT Strands is the latest word game from the New York Times.
Today's theme for NYT Strands is food: Got any bleu cheese?
The clue words for today are: LATE, GLADE, BLADE, NICK, CHICK, TOAST.
The spangram hint for today is: Food in rows.

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Unlock Seamless AWS Integration: 1-Click Cloud Logging Solution

Revolutionize Cloud Logging: Introducing Log4J AWS Appenders for Seamless AWS Integration and Enhanced Security
A new Log4J AWS appender is now available on Maven Central that allows seamless integration of application logging with AWS CloudWatch.
Developed by a user who wanted to enhance the functionality of the AWS-provided log appender, the Log4J AWS appender is easy to incorporate into projects.
The appender provides configuration options for log grouping, log stream generation, and log rotation, making cloud logging and integration more efficient.

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From Open AI to hacked smart glasses, here are the 5 biggest AI headlines this week

OpenAI secures $6.6 billion in latest funding round
Nvidia releases open-source LLM to rival GPT-4
Google's Gemini Live expands language capabilities
California governor vetoes expansive AI safety bill
Hackers turn Meta smart glasses into doxing machine

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Day 1 of TrainWithShubham’s Junoon Batch 8: My DevOps Journey Begins 🚀

Today marked the beginning of my DevOps learning journey with TrainWithShubham's Junoon Batch 8 program.
The first session covered the Introduction to DevOps and the fundamentals of Cloud Computing, with a focus on AWS Cloud.
The instructor, Shubham, explained complex concepts in a way that was easy to understand and apply.
Upcoming sessions in October promise deeper insights into DevOps and Cloud technologies, with live weekend sessions.

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Could VR help people overcome their fear of water?

Researchers from Monash University's Exertion Games Lab in Melbourne believe that extended reality (XR) could help people overcome their fear of water.
The XR experience involves using a virtual reality headset while lying in a floatation tank, taking participants on a visual and auditory journey through water-based worlds.
In a small study, participants reported experiencing less anxiety about water when using the XR system.
Further studies with a larger number of participants are encouraged to expand on these results and explore extended reality as a means to manage aquaphobia and other phobias.

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