Cosine Similarity support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedCosine Similarity support in Amazon Elasticsearch Service Amazon Elasticsearch Service now supports cosine similarity distance metric with k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) to power your similarity search engine. Cosine similarity is used to measure similarities between two vectors, irrespective of their sizes and is most commonly used in information retrieval, image recognition, text similarity,…

Logical separation: Moving beyond physical isolation in the cloud computing era

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedLogical separation: Moving beyond physical isolation in the cloud computing era We’re sharing an update to the Logical Separation on AWS: Moving Beyond Physical Isolation in the Era of Cloud Computing whitepaper to help customers benefit from the security and innovation benefits of logical separation in the cloud. This paper discusses using…

Building well-architected serverless applications: Controlling serverless API access – part 1

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedBuilding well-architected serverless applications: Controlling serverless API access – part 1 This series of blog posts uses the AWS Well-Architected Tool with the Serverless Lens to help customers build and operate applications using best practices. In each post, I address the nine serverless-specific questions identified by the Serverless Lens along with the recommended best practices. See…