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What is AWS EC2?
AWS EC2 is short for Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud.
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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...
machine learning
Amazon SageMaker
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
Education
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...
The Cloud
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...
machine learning
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.
machine learning
Announcing The Metal Toad Q4 2021 Online Hackathon: Building Your Own Machine Learning Model
It's that magical time of the year - our hackathon is back! Twice a year, we set aside the day-to-day and dive into an exciting 48-hour innovation...
The Cloud
Where is AWS going? 3 Trends From AWS re:Invent 2021
Curious about what topics were talked about at AWS re:Invent 2021? Read about the three trends here.
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AWS re:Invent 2021 Day 1 Recap
Wondering how the first day of AWS re:Invent 2021 went? Find out in this blog article from our Front-End Thermer Laura Boemo.
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What is AWS Lambda?
AWS Lambda, for those not familiar with it, is an event driven serverless (what is serverless?) platform for compute resources
The Cloud
AWS reInvent: what to expect 2021
As an award-winning AWS Advanced Consulting Partner and AWS managed services provider, we are pumped about the
Media & Entertainment
Metal Toad Recognized as Key Partner For New AWS Media & Entertainment Initiative
Metal Toad is proud to be recognized as a key partner for the recently launched AWS for Media & Entertainment initiative. Metal Toad received special...
machine learning
Thoughts on 2021 StackOverflow Developer Survey
The StackOverflow Annual Developer Survey measures the developer community
The Cloud
Understanding the Cloud Media Workload: Media Supply Chain
The HPA Tech Retreat is the pre-eminent gathering of industry-leading thinkers and innovation-focused companies engaged in the creation, management,...
The Cloud
Digital Rights Management and the Cloud
As the CEO of BuyDRM, Christopher provides key insight and management to staff based around the world, as part of BuyDRM’s mission to deliver the...
The Cloud
Kubeless: Role your own FaaS
All major cloud offerings have a Function as a Service (FaaS) tool. AWS offers Lambda, Azure offers Functions, GCP offers Cloud Functions.
Artificial Intelligence
Running FaaS on Linux Mint 19.3 with Kubeless
FaaS, the acronym for Function as a Service, is a cloud computing service that allows developers to build, run, and manage applications as functions...
The Cloud
Media Orchestration + Cloud
With over 23 years in the industry, Art Raymond has been involved in media and advertising for the totality of his career. From the very beginning,...
The Cloud
Understanding the Cloud Media Workload: Content Creation
The HPA Tech Retreat is the pre-eminent gathering of industry-leading thinkers and innovation-focused companies engaged in the creation, management,...
Media & Entertainment
How to host a virtual conference
This article first appeared in the Metal Toad newsletter.
The Cloud
How to make a website
22 years ago, I worked at a company called LACityWeb.com. The company failed in the year 2000, but back in 1999 we were selling websites. The sales...
The Cloud
How to Host a Website on AWS in 5 Minutes
For most casual website owners, it’s often easy to simply use a hosting provider with built in support for their CMS and integrating analytics....
machine learning
What is Machine Learning?
Machine learning is a field of computer science where mathematical systems “learn” from massive data to adjust their internal models using linear...
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Setup a NAS on AWS
As part of Metal Toad’s Managed Services Team, I have worked extensively in custom cloud based solutions.