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What's the difference between running Claude directly with Anthropic or in AWS Bedrock?
Explore the differences between using Claude directly via Anthropic and through AWS Bedrock, focusing on data handling, security, and compliance.
The AI Data Center Bubble: Why Silicon Leaps and the Edge Will Deflate the Boom
The AI data center boom faces challenges as edge technology and sustainability trends emerge. Companies must adapt to optimize costs and resources.
The AI-Driven Workflow: A Necessary Evolution of the SDLC
Explore the AI Development Life Cycle, a new approach that enhances software development velocity while ensuring human oversight and collaboration...
GenAi making sweet music
Generative AI is now creating high quality text, imagery, video, and even music. Finding the right use case for your business is the hard part.
Show Me the Money
Calculating ROI on Your AI Investment: A no-jargon guide for humans who don't speak robot. BeeBoop.
Bot Analytics; Buyer's Guide
Discover the importance of bot analytics for understanding web traffic, optimizing content strategy, and enhancing performance insights.
"Anyone Can Code”
Explore the dual-edged sword vibe coding, where democratization invites both creativity and chaos, highlighting the need for expertise amidst...
Delegation isn't just for managers
Discover how AI delegation transforms teamwork in a lean environment, enabling innovation and efficiency while maintaining human oversight and trust.
From Firefighter to Fire Chief: Leading Through the Heat
Learn how to transition from individual contributor to effective leader by mastering delegation, recognizing team efforts, and preventing burnout.
Building an AI-Powered Handoff Document Generator in 3 Days
Learn how a team at Metal Toad built an AI-powered tool to streamline handoff documentation in just three days.
The New Shadow IT: Why AI Security is a Culture Problem
AI security is an IT problem and a culture one. Learn how to turn accidental developers into a secure, innovative asset.
6 Levels of AI Delegation: A Framework for AI Management
Being a manager involves knowing how to delegate. But now that AI is everywhere in our daily tasks, are we thinking about how to properly delegate to...
Handover Alliance; Making AI Do the Tedious Work
AI-powered solution streamlines the creation of Handover Documents, enhancing efficiency and professionalism in development projects using AWS...
Inside the Hackathon: How Team Estimate Eliminators Built a Capacity Forecasting System
Meet the Estimate Eliminators; a hackathon team that turned Jira backlogs into real capacity visibility with a steampunk-themed forecasting engine.
Automating Handoff Docs with AI: A Hackathon Story
See howa hackathon team used AWS Step Functions, Bedrock, and a multi-agent architecture to automate client handoff documentations.
Preparing for Google Zero
Google Zero is reshaping publishing. Discover how to monetize bot traffic, build owned audiences, and thrive in the answer engine era.
Behind the Scenes at the Metal Toad Agentic AI Hackathon
Metal Toad's Agentic AI Hackathon team builds autonomous AI solutions Capacity Forecasting System that shows delivery risks automatically.
It's not AIs fault
The AI labor squeeze is backfiring. Explore why 55% of employers report AI regret after cutting human roles and why human's are making a comeback in...
CIOs are allergic to AI-bro fantasy
CIOs resist replacing SaaS with AI due to the risks of unknowns. Economic slowdown leading to recession and layoffs, not AI advancements.
Is the AI Bubble Finally Popping?
Is the AI bubble about to burst? We compare today's market to the dot-com collapse from job cuts to inflated valuations and what it means for...
Why Forecasting Human Work is Harder Than We Think
Learn why forecasting human work is complex and how connecting Jira, time tracking, and Parallax turns capacity planning into data-driven delivery.
Amazon Quick Suite: AWS's New AI-Powered Data and Automation Suite
Explore Amazon Quick Suite, AWS's expansion of QuickSight that brings AI chat agents, research, flows, and automations.
Silver is acting like a tech stock—and it’s weird
Silver's price surge mirrors tech stocks due to its critical role in AI and tech industries, sparking concerns about market manipulation and a...
The NYC Subway and Google have something in common
Low-friction UX wins users. From NYC subway Apple Pay to Google SSO, reducing cognitive friction drives adoption. Learn why ease beats features.
What does an AI bubble look like?
Explore the parallels between the dotcom bubble and the current AI landscape, and understand why AI's long-term value remains promising despite...
Sora 2 Killed the Truth 💀
AI video tools like Sora 2 threaten Hollywood and truth, creating ultra-realistic deepfakes and scams that can manipulate public perception and...
Stop Shipping "Vibe Code": Why AWS Kiro is the Grown-Up AI Dev Tool We’ve Been Waiting For
Discover why AWS Kiro is the essential AI development tool for creating scalable, secure, and well-documented systems.
2025 Re:Invent Recap
AWS re:Invent showcased groundbreaking AI agents, including security, DevOps, and coding tools. Discover their potential to revolutionize IT...
Replacing people with AI is the fastest way to break your company
Explore why replacing human workers with AI can harm companies, and learn how pairing AI with human talent is the key to sustainable success.
Nova Forge: The New Custom Model Platform from AWS
Exploring the powerful announcement from re:Invent 2025
Swarm Intelligence for AI Agents: Why Your Next Project Needs Multiple Specialists
Build AI agent swarms that outperform single agents through specialized coordination. Learn multi-agent orchestration with AWS Bedrock.
Amazon Nova: AWS's New Generation of Foundation Models for Enterprise AI
Discover Amazon Nova: AWS's powerful new AI models offering frontier intelligence at 75% lower cost. Multimodal capabilities for text, image, and...
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: AWS's Answer to AI Agents
Build production AI agents on AWS Bedrock AgentCore. Framework-agnostic platform with serverless runtime, MCP tools, enterprise security features.
SLM models at the edge
Explore the benefits of using smaller language models (SLMs) at the edge to reduce costs and enhance privacy while leveraging advanced AI...
Getting Started with GraphStorm on AWS: A Complete Pipeline Guide
Learn to build and deploy graph neural network models using AWS GraphStorm for link prediction, node classification, and graph machine learning at...
Agentic use Cases
Discover when to use Agentic AI vs traditional programming. Learn about AWS Bedrock, GCP Vertex AI & Azure frameworks. Not every problem needs an...
Getting Started with Strands on AgentCore: A Quick Start Guide
Learn how to set up and run AI agents with Strands on AgentCore, emphasizing key concepts and best practices for effective implementation.
What do an AI Browser and a T-Rex have in common?
AI browsers pose significant security risks similar to a T-Rex on the loose. Learn why you should avoid them and how to protect your digital...
Mech Suits: a frame for thinking about GenAI
Explore how AI can be viewed as a mech suit, emphasizing the importance of human collaboration for maximizing its potential and avoiding ethical and...
What I Learned as a Non Developer
Talia Lippincott discusses what she learned during the 2025 hackathon.
GenAI is the Future of AI
AWS shifts focus from ML to generative AI with new certifications, reflecting evolving tech and market needs. Explore the implications for...
AgentCore Quick Tips
Quick tips for getting started with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, including health checks, prebuilt tools, and design patterns to streamline your...
Migrating AWS Lex to Bedrock AgentCore: A Hackathon Journey
Learn how Metal Toad migrated their Slack chatbot from AWS Lex to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore during a 2-day hackathon using Amazon Q Developer and AI.
My First Hackathon: Data Visualizations with Amazon Q Developer
Learn how Metal Toad's Hackathon team leveraged Amazon Q Developer to create interactive data visualizations from GenAI models, modernizing data...
Hackathon 2025: Building ToadBot 3.0
Metal Toad's team upgraded ToadBot using AWS Bedrock AgentCore, adding multi-person shoutouts, thread detection, and emoji kudos for smarter...
Building ToadBot Core: How We Upgraded Our Slack Kudos Bot with AgentCore
Learn how our Hackathon 2025 team modernized ToadBot using AWS AgentCore, improving Slack shoutouts with multi-person kudos and cleaner channels.
RPG Master Bot - Bringing AI to a Tabletop World
Metal Toad's hackathon team built RPGMatch Master Bot using Amazon Bedrock, creating an AI assistant that answers player questions about TTRPGs...
Is GenAI Alive?
Explore the anthropological bonds between humans and AI, examining how different interaction types shape our use and understanding of this...
Hidden Danger of GenAI
Discover the hidden maintenance costs of Generative AI models and how to manage frequent updates effectively to maximize productivity and longevity.
Building an AI-Ready Culture: 100% of Metal Toad Team Taking on AWS AI Practitioner
Metal Toad fosters an AI-ready culture by having all team members pursue AWS AI Practitioner certification, promoting innovation and collective...
The Death of Google Search
Explore how generative AI is transforming search, challenging Google's dominance, and reshaping how we find and trust information in the digital age.
Combatting AI Bot Scrapers on the Modern Web
Learn how the development team at Metal Toad combats against scraper bots and save the websites performance. Learn how to save your website from...
Cloudflare vs CloudFront: Which CDN Is Right for You?
Explore the key differences between Cloudflare and CloudFront to choose the best CDN for performance and security.
OpenAI Introduces GPT-5: Standard, Mini, and Nano Models
OpenAI releases GPT-5 with Standard, Mini, and Nano models, offering flexibility in performance and cost, supporting multi-modal inputs and an...
AWS DevOps Consulting Services
Scale faster with AWS DevOps consulting: CI/CD, IaC, observability, and automation to improve reliability, release velocity, and cost efficiency.
Good or Bad, the UK Online Safety Act Is Now Something Internet Professionals Need to Concern Themselves With
UK Online Safety Act: a new law impacting tech professionals worldwide. Learn about its implications on age verification, encryption, liability, and...
AWS DevOps Services: Automate, Deploy & Scale on AWS
Accelerate releases and cut costs with expert AWS DevOps services—CI/CD pipelines, IaC, monitoring, and 24/7 support. Get cloud-native agility in...
AWS Professional Services: Strategy, Migration & Optimization Experts
Learn about the process of cloud migration along with some of the benefits.
Amazon Bedrock vs. OpenAI: Why Organizations Are Making the Switch
Comparing and contrasting between Bedrock and OpenAI and why Bedrock might be better.
Lambda Concurrency: Optimize AWS Performance, Cost & Throughput
Understand AWS Lambda concurrency—reserved, provisioned, and burst—and learn optimization tips to avoid throttling, reduce costs, and keep...
GenAI vs AI: Understanding the Differences & Choosing the Right Approach
Explore how generative AI differs from traditional AI, including key concepts, use cases, benefits, and considerations to help you choose the right...
Generative AI vs Machine Learning: Key Differences, Uses & Benefits
Compare generative AI and traditional machine learning concepts, model types, use cases, and business impact to decide which approach fits your goals.
What Are AWS Security Services?
Protect your cloud environment with AWS Security Services. Learn how Metal Toad uses AWS tools to safeguard data, detect threats, and ensure...
Machine Learning Consulting Services
Unlock AI-driven insights and automation with expert machine learning consulting by Metal Toad. Scalable, strategic, and customized for business...
Unlock Powerful Image and Video Analysis with AWS Rekognition
Discover how AWS Rekognition uses AI to analyze images and videos. Learn about facial recognition, object detection, and content moderation features.
Is a Metal Toad a Scam
Learn about what services Metal Toad offers, our core value of respect, and ways to spot a false job offerings from people pretending to be Metal...
AI video generation is the future
AI video generation is revolutionizing the film industry, empowering independent creators and challenging traditional production and monetization...
AWS Bedrock Pricing
Understand Amazon Bedrock's flexible AI pricing, optimize costs, and explore provisioning options for deploying generative AI with foundation models...
What is Amazon Bedrock?
Discover how Amazon Bedrock simplifies AI development with serverless access to top foundation models, customizable options, and cost-efficient...
Metal Toad Opens Seattle Office to Strengthen AWS Partnership
Metal Toad opens a new Seattle office to enhance AWS collaboration, focusing on business development and technical engagement in the cloud capital.
Building a SaaS Application with Flutter
Learn how to build a SaaS application using Flutter, covering architecture, tooling, and best practices for a seamless development experience. Main...
How Genius Vets Leveled Up Their Customer Service Training—Guess What? You can too!
Discover how Metal Toad helped Genius Vets automate and scale customer service training using AWS and AI—turning every call into a coaching...
“Wait, the Government is Using Generative AI?” Yes. Yes, It Is.
Discover how Metal Toad and AWS are helping public sector organizations explore Generative AI with real-world use cases and AWS-funded...
AWS at NAB 2025
Explore a curated look at AWS's groundbreaking demos at NAB 2025, including a GenAI-powered virtual person, live sports cloud production, video...
Automating Developer tasks
Automate developer tasks with Git hooks for documentation, security, and Jira comments, enhancing workflow efficiency and code quality with minimal...
How much would it cost to replace a human with genAI?
Discover the cost and implications of replacing human jobs with GenAI, exploring its limitations and potential impacts on the workforce.
How do I pick the right GenAI Model?
Learn how to choose the right GenAI model for your business with insights on AWS Bedrock and key industry players. Discover our expert tips and...
ChatGPT is getting replaced by AI
The rapid advancements in generative AI models are shaking up the industry, with new contenders like DeepSeek and Alibaba surpassing ChatGPT,...
Why You Should Get a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Evaluation Before Building Your AI Business Solution
"Discover why a Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) evaluation is essential before building an AI business solution. Learn how it helps avoid hidden costs,...
Why your company needs a GenAI-powered intranet
Discover how Amazon Q's generative AI transforms intranets, enhancing productivity, collaboration, and decision-making with seamless data integration...
What are GenAI Tokens and how many does each model have?
Explore the significance of tokens in generative AI and access a comprehensive spreadsheet detailing GenAI models and their token capacities.
AWS Secrets Manager
Learn how to handle AWS Secrets Manager credential rotation using Lambda functions, AWS SDK, and EventBridge rules for seamless integration and...
Metal Toad and Laurel Canyon Live featured at AWS Re:Invent
Metal Toad and AWS are revolutionizing live entertainment with Laurel Canyon Live, bringing real-time streaming concerts to your home, to theaters...
Why Large Studios Should Migrate to AWS Elemental for Live Streaming
Discover why large studios should migrate to AWS Elemental for live streaming to reduce costs, scale effortlessly, and enhance viewer experiences.
Navigating Amazon's AI Strategy: Key takeaways and ROI lessons for your 2025 digital transformation
Discover how Amazon's AI strategy, from AI cloud computing to robotics and Alexa, can guide your 2025 digital transformation for enhanced efficiency...
The Future of Document Management in Movie Studios: How Intelligent Document Processing is Shaping the Industry
Discover how intelligent document processing (IDP) is revolutionizing movie studios, enhancing contract management, compliance, speed to market,...
Metal Toad Recognized by AWS as GenAI Competency Partner
Metal Toad achieves AWS GenAI Competency, enhancing our ability to deliver innovations and drive digital transformation for clients in multiple...
Exploring Passwordless Authentication at Metal Toad Hackathon
Exploring the integration of passwordless authentication using AWS Cognito at Metal Toad Hackathon, enhancing security and user experience while...
2024 Hackathon: ASW Step Function Feedback
From the AWS Samples on Github, we take a look at how to get real-time feedback from Step Functions
AWS Sample+ Hackathon: CDK to Terraform
Convert AWS CDK to Terraform with Amazon Q Developer in a hackathon project for faster deployments.
Unlocking Success: The Importance of AWS Competencies
Discover how AWS Competencies empower Metal Toad to stand out in the cloud market by proving their technical expertise and delivering innovative AWS...
VMware Accelerates AWS Cloud Adoption (but not the way you think)
The schism between VMware and AWS has only served to accelerate AWS cloud adoption
The Top 3 Risks When Deploying GenAI
Discover the top three risks of deploying Generative AI in customer interactions and why businesses should prioritize internal use to enhance...
Thinking About Moving Your Application to a SaaS Model? Let’s Get You Cloud-Ready!
Thinking about transitioning to a SaaS model? Discover why it matters and how to make your cloud journey smooth and successful with expert guidance...
What can save you from an AI Disaster?
For companies looking to understand if they are ready for AI, this article will assist them in understanding evaluation criteria.
When’s the last time you applied for a loan? With all the technology available, should it really be this cumbersome?
Benefits of using Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Industry
The Value of Conducting a Data Assessment: Beyond Artificial Intelligence
Explore the crucial role of data assessments in AI implementation, strategic decision-making, risk management, and fostering interdepartmental...
Why Companies Are Struggling to Meet Their AI Rollout Goals: Insights and Challenges
In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) promises transformative benefits for businesses. Despite the...
Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with Progressive Hydration
Explore the advantages of Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with Progressive Hydration for enhanced performance in React/Next.js applications.
Commitment to Responsible AI
Metal Toad commits to responsible AI with fairness, explainability, privacy, and transparency. Explore their journey in using machine learning for...
Exploring Fine-Tuning Meta LLaMA 2 for Malicious Traffic Detection: A Proof of Concept
Fine-tuning Meta LLaMA 2 for malicious traffic detection showcased promising results, highlighting the importance of resource selection in model...
Metal Toad's AWS Journey to launch Securitoad
As the CEO of Metal Toad, I had the distinct honor of being interviewed by AWS SaaS Factory, a recognition that...
Building an Intent-based Chatbot: Webinar on Demand
In this webinar, learn how to build chatbots with generative AI to interact based on user intent rather than word-for-word matching.
Metal Toad Recognized as an Amazon QuickSight Service Delivery Partner
Metal Toad is now an Amazon QuickSight Service Delivery Partner, showcasing expertise in data visualization and business intelligence solutions.
Knowledge Bases in AWS Bedrock
Extend your AWS Bedrock models with Knowledge Bases to enhance retrieval-augmented generation, leveraging large context windows and efficient data...
GenAi: Infinite Paradox of Choice
Just because the hallmark of generative AI is natural language, that doesn't mean free form inputs are the best way for enterprises to integrate...
Why the Economics of GenAI Skews for the Tech Giants (And Why That’s Good for You)
Economies of scale around compute and data favors tech giants in the Generative Ai space. But firms of all sizes benefit from the giants'...
How to Design a Proper GenAI Proof of Concept (PoC)
Our VP of Engineering outlines the questions a properly designed proof of concept (PoC) needs to answer, particularly for complex technologies like...
Is it worth it to deploy Generative AI? An SMB perspective
Why do so few Small & Midsize Businesses (SMBs) use AI? How can they address the capabilities gap in order to stand up their own AI initiatives?
TUTORIAL: How to integrate the Amazon Lex with a slack channel
A tutorial on how to integrate the amazon lex with your slack channel
TUTORIAL: How to use AWS Rekognition to identify people's age and emotions from photos
3-day Hackathon project: AgeVisionAI
Enhancing Customer Engagement with Amazon Lex Chatbots
Empowering Customer Interaction: Leveraging AWS Amazon Lex as a Chatbot Solution
How to use AI to get insights from LinkedIn ADS
Discover how to extract, upload, and analyze LinkedIn Ads data using Amazon Quicksight, enhanced by the capabilities of Generative AI with Amazon Q.
Toadbook Hackathon Project
Discover how Metal Toad's team utilized AWS services and ML to create a simple social network platform at their latest hackathon. Explore the...
IAM Roles: A Survival Guide for Navigating AWS Identity and Access Management
Unlock the secrets of AWS Identity and Access Management with this comprehensive guide, covering key concepts, best practices, and tips for...
Why you shouldn't say refactor
Discover why saying refactor isn't enough in agile coding. Enhance project success by focusing on customer value.
The Future of Machine Learning: Will it Become Obsolete?
Explore the potential future of machine learning and whether it will eventually become obsolete in the ever-evolving landscape of AI advancements.
Is Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence?
Gain clarity on the relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Discover the role of AWS in accelerating AI and ML...
The future of Generative Ai is in automation
Broad proclamations about Ai changing the world are doing nothing to help people understand how they should be using it. In the absence of specific...
Metal Toad's 6 Point AWS Inspection
How to prep your AWS cloud environment
Recent Cloudwatch Application Signals Announcement
Explore Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals: Revolutionize cloud monitoring with SLO tracking, rapid troubleshooting, and holistic application...
Why Some Businesses Prefer AWS Over Azure
Dive deep into the top reasons organizations choose AWS
Generative AI powered Intelligent Document Processing
Steps to use Amazon Bedrock to get process Documents.
AWS recognized Metal Toad as SaaS Competency Partner
Metal Toad is recognized as one of only two SaaS Competency partners in North America.
Who Uses Amazon Web Services and Why?
Discover the diverse range of businesses and organizations that rely on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and explore the reasons behind their choice.
Exploring the AWS Services List
Discover how AWS services can enhance your business operations and learn about Metal Toad's expertise as an AWS SaaS Competency Partner.
How to use AI to automatically add relevant meta descriptions to all your CMS pages
Learn how to use AI to automatically add relevant meta descriptions to all your CMS pages. Increase your website's visibility and attract more users...
Choosing the Right BI Tool: A Comparison of Power BI and Amazon QuickSight
Discover the perfect Business Intelligence (BI) tool for your business with Metal Toad's expert comparison of Power BI and Amazon QuickSight.
Metal Toad's Exceptional Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) of 86
Here at Metal Toad, we are thrilled to share that our forward-thinking tech company has achieved an extraordinary Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS)...
Capturing Moments: A Tale of Personalization in Adobe Firefly
In the realm of digital artistry, Adobe Firefly stands as a beacon of creativity, offering a canvas where imagination dances with pixels.
Revolutionizing Recruitment and Selection: Advances in the Use of Artificial Intelligence
Discover how Artificial Intelligence is revolutionizing the recruitment and selection process. AI is transforming hiring practices from automation to...
The robots are painting
A lot has been said in the media about AI generated art, but how does it actually work (from a human perspective)?
Crafting Avatars with AI: The Future of Personalized Digital Identities
Revolutionize your digital identity with AI-driven avatars that capture your unique personality and style, offering unprecedented customization and...
Cognito and SES setup
Setting up Cognito with SES is required if you are going to send more than 50 emails a day. here are the steps to have SES and Cognito avoid spam.
Metal Toad Prompt Engineering Hackathon
In this latest event, in the last week of September we embarked on a journey to learn how to work with prompt engineering, unleashing the power of...
Hackathon Autumn 2023: Machine Learning Assisted Development (or Prompt Engineering)
'Freedom to Fail' is occasionally touted as a key way to learn, but actual freedom to fail in the workplace is rare, so it's a treat to be able to...
Biggest Pitfalls When Building a SaaS Application
Building a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) application can be a rewarding endeavor, but it's important to be aware of potential pitfalls that can hinder...
Prompt Engineering Hackathon Learnings
As Large Language Models have risen to the everyday usage, Metal Toad took a few days to have a hackathon and see how much they could accomplish in 2...
Implementing RedShift
Optimize AWS Redshift implementation with best practices in data modeling, performance, security, cost management, and integration for effective data...
Metal Toad’s Approach to Implementing Quicksight
Amazon QuickSight enables you to create interactive and visually appealing dashboards, reports, and visualizations using your data.
Metal Toad’s Step by Step Approach in Implementing RedShift: One Sheet
Step-by-step guide on implementing Amazon Redshift for high-performance and scalable data warehousing, from setup and security to optimization and...
My Summer Journey at Metal Toad: An Internship Reflection
My Summer Journey at Metal Toad: An Internship Reflection
Use AWS to secure tenant data at every level
Use AWS to secure tenant data at every level
Safeguarding SaaS Products: A Comprehensive Guide to Securing Your Offering with AWS
Learn how to secure your SaaS products with AWS using encryption, network security, threat detection, compliance, and identity management.
Building Scalable and Cost-Efficient SaaS Products with AWS: A Deep Dive into Metal Toad's Approach
Building Scalable and Cost-Efficient SaaS Products with AWS: A Deep Dive into Metal Toad's Approach
How does facial recognition work?
Last week, Forbes quoted me in their article 12 Things You Need To Know About Facial Recognition Technology. I am a member of the Forbes Technology...
My experience at WebSummit Rio 2023
Top 10 things IT departments miss when setting up AWS
Getting started in AWS is easy. Anyone can do it! That said, when IT departments set up their own AWS cloud environments, they almost always miss...
RPGMatch User Avatars
For modern user applications having an avatar to represent you is important.
Starting my journey with a technology company
Onboarding During my few weeks, I went through an onboarding process wher
How is authentication and identity managed in AWS applications?
Learn how Amazon Cognito handles authentication and identity management in AWS applications, ensuring secure and scalable user access.
What does a QA engineer at Metal Toad do?
Working in HR, it is possible to do recruitment, retention, or both activities.
AWS Partner Proof of Concept Funding
Discover how AWS Partner Proof of Concept funding helps test workloads and reduce IT costs, enabling a smooth transition to AWS Cloud. Learn more...
What is AWS Control Tower?
You are up and running in the AWS cloud. You've done multiple PoCs, and you have a number of workloads using S3, EC2 and multiple RDS databases. So...
What is AWS Migration Evaluator?
Discover how AWS Migration Evaluator simplifies cloud migration with detailed assessments, cost projections, and performance optimization, ensuring a...
How to earn an AWS Machine Learning Competency
Learn how to earn an AWS Machine Learning Competency and elevate your company's expertise in delivering machine learning solutions on AWS.
How can Machine Learning improve sales teams?
There are many ways that machine learning can help people in all different kinds of roles.
What is AWS CloudTrail
Discover the benefits and pricing of AWS CloudTrail for enhancing security, compliance, troubleshooting, and governance in your AWS environment.
AWS CodeWhisperer - ML Augmented Development (3 of 3)
In the previous blog we talked about ChatGPT and went through some examples on how to use it to help develop solutions.
ReactJS Amplify App Part I - Overview and Auth
This is a three part post about our experience using AWS Amplify to develop a food logging app for the Metal Toad hackathon. Here in part one we...
5 Signs You Need AWS Cloud Migration Consulting
Discover the five critical signs that indicate your business needs AWS cloud migration consulting to optimize performance, reduce costs, and enhance...
Why Caution is Key When Using Chatbots for Writing Tasks
As technology continues to evolve, the use of AI-powered chatbots for writing tasks has become more prevalent.
What is AWS Migration Hub?
Centralize and simplify your cloud migration projects with AWS Migration Hub, offering a unified dashboard, real-time tracking, and multi-account...
Leveraging AWS Machine Learning to Transform HR
Discover how AWS Machine Learning can transform HR by enhancing efficiency, decision-making, and employee engagement while automating repetitive...
ChatGPT - ML Augmented Development (2 of 3)
In the previous blog we talked about how ML Augmented Development
What is Amazon Quicksight?
If you're looking for a powerful, cloud-based business intelligence service, Amazon QuickSight deserves serious consideration.
Tell a Story
User story mapping is an effective technique for product development that helps teams understand the context of the full application.
ML Augmented Development (1 of 3)
In the last few months, the world has come to know ChatGPT as a source for ML generated writing.
Performance enhancements with Amazon Neptune
Querying performance enhancements with Neptune versus DynamoDB with OpenSearch.
How to use ChatGPT
You may have already heard about this artificial intelligence writing readable text. This will have a profound effect on the need for knowledge...
Use AI for marketing content instead of using Lorem Ipsum
Writing compelling content for marketing purposes can be a daunting task.
Over the Air (OTA) Updates for IoT Devices using AWS
Over-the-air (OTA) updates are a critical feature for Internet of Things (IoT) devices.
What does Metal Toad do?
Welcome to Metal Toad! So you’ve been hired at this cool tech company cal
Serverless Best Practice Resources
My last Session for re:Invent was on optimizing Lambda.
Image & Natural Language Processing (NLP) using AWS Machine Learning
Machine learning has revolutionized the way we think about technology and its capabilities.
Lambda SnapStart
AWS re:Invent is in full swing and with it come new services that people have been asking for.
Cloud Readiness Assessment
If you are being asked to assess whether you company is ready to migrate to the Cloud, you're not alone. As of 2022, 94% of companies use cloud...
What is Amazon S3?
Amazon S3 is short for Amazon Simple Storage Service, and it is the storage in the cloud.
Managed Services for AWS
Explore the nuances of AWS Managed Services and their implications for IT infrastructure and DevOps in this comprehensive guide.
What is Deep Learning?
Deep learning is a category of AI used to find patterns within various types of complex datasets which can include textual, audio, and visual data.
The importance of teamwork in the workplace
We live in a world full of technology, new applications, new functions, different types of entertainment...
How to choose the right cloud provider
The promise of cloud technology has spawned tremendous innovation by some of the biggest, most powerful companies in the world.
Top 5 things to know about machine learning content moderation
If you are in charge of moderating user generated content, whether video, image or text based, you may be wondering how you can take advantage of...
My Promotion to UX Designer
As a new UX Designer, Laura Chaves shares the story of her new role, how she got started, and what she's excited about. Click to read the full story.
Automated Content Moderation with AWS Machine Learning
The AWS Rekognition POC enables companies the ability to moderate user-generated videos using machine learning. Designed by Metal Toad and Mux. Learn...
The Cybersecurity threat from Russia
On Thursday, February 24, 2022, Russia invaded the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Immediately after, in a speech, President Biden said the following:
NAB Show 2022: A Quick Guide
NAB Show is back in-person and better than ever! View our quick guide to learn about the event and the answers to some of the most common questions.
The top 5 things to know about facial recognition
When Forbes quoted me in their article 12 Things You Need To Know About Facial Recognition Technology, I made the following contribution...
What is AWS EC2?
Learn about AWS EC2's features, benefits, and alternatives, including its low latency, security, easy networking, and Amazon Machine Images, along...
SAFe POPM vs. CSPO - Which Product Owner Certification is The Best?
Comparing SAFe POPM and CSPO certifications for Product Owners. Discover which certification is best for your career and the benefits they offer.
3 Ways To Use Machine Learning: December 2021 Hackathon Overview
With a new emphasis on machine learning, our December 2021 Hackathon focused on building your own machine learning model. Learn about what our Toads...
What is Amazon SageMaker?
If you are new to the machine learning development world you not know what you need to know about Amazon SageMaker
Is the AWS Machine Learning Certification worth it?
How does AWS Machine Learning Certification Compare to the Competition? Machine Learning is hot, and AWS machine learning is at the very top of the...
Big Takeaways from AWS re:Invent 2021
While normally I consider myself a consistent writer, since this summer it's been difficult for me to muster to will to research and share the...
CES 2022: A Quick Guide
Stay updated on CES 2022! Discover must-attend sessions, top keynote speakers, and essential tips for making the most of this premier tech event.
Q4 2021 Online Hackathon: Identifying Downed Power Lines
From our online hackathon, read Team Brazuca's journey on using machine learning to create a model that can identify downed power lines.
Announcing The Metal Toad Q4 2021 Online Hackathon: Building Your Own Machine Learning Model
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