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Limitations: AWS SSO Limitations: Azure Active Directory (AAD) Limitations: Control Tower Limitations: Miscellaneous Limitations: Considerations: When configuring AWS Control Tower with AWS SSO and Azure Active Directory (AAD), there are several considerations to keep in mind: Configuration: To configure AWS Control Tower with AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) and Azure Active Directory (AAD), you need to follow these steps:

Intellectual dishonesty at the workplace can have significant impacts on individuals, teams, and the overall work environment. Here are some potential impacts: To maintain a healthy work environment, it is essential for individuals and organizations to promote intellectual honesty, transparency, and integrity. By encouraging open communication, fostering a culture of honesty, and implementing policies that discourage dishonest behavior, organizations can mitigate the negative impacts of intellectual dishonesty and promote a positive and ethical workplace. How to avoid intellectual dishonesty at the personal level? Avoiding intellectual dishonesty requires self-awareness, personal integrity, and a commitment to ethical behavior. Here are some ways… Continue reading Impacts of Intellectual Dishonesty at Workplace

When we architect the application, it is essential to consider the current metrics and monitoring logs to ensure its design is future-proof. But sometimes, we do not have the necessary logs to make the right decisions. In that case, we will let the application run in an architecture that we think seems optimized – using the metrics we had access to – and let it run for a while to capture logs required to apply necessary changes. In our case, the application has grown to the point where we could not expect it to happen! The COVID-19 has increased the… Continue reading This is how we hit the limit in Amazon EFS

Communication is the activity or process of expressing ideas and feelings or of giving people information; “an apparent answer to the painful divisions between self and other, private and public, and inner thought and outer word.”. According to the Oxford dictionary, communication means “the activity or process of expressing ideas and feelings or giving people information” (Peters, 1999). However, in reality, communication is not just about the transmission of information amongst people. It starts with the willingness to initiate this transmission of info. if the transmitter of information does not believe that the information will be actred upon or that… Continue reading Communication and failure in information flow

This post focuses on how to use the EFS storage to store large packages and libraries like cx_Oracle, pandas, and pymssql and import the packages in AWS Lambda. Considering the Lambda package size limitation that is inclusive of layers, larger functions packages and libraries must be stored outside the Lambda package. There are some steps that you do not need to follow as it has been done, and you can mount the EFS to your lambda and import the package. However, I will be logging the steps to ensure we all can reference the steps in the future – technical… Continue reading How to use EFS to store cx_Oracle, Pandas, and other python packages?

The AWS Education Executive Forum on 2nd June, a live session from 9.30-11.30 am, is an intimate session for 10-15 executive customers from the education sector in Malaysia to share and discuss the digital transformation journey and how cloud innovation can help to achieve the journey. This executive forum is a part of the AWS Initiate ASEAN Online on 10th June, which is a global marketing event series built for customers newest to the cloud, with the overarching theme – Innovation Everywhere. This online event is designed to connect and raise awareness of the value of cloud adoption and help… Continue reading AWS Education Executive Forum

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On 25th Feb 2021 I joined the executive panel discussion that was hosted by AWS on the topic Digital Transformation in Education and Adapting to the New Normal. EduTECH Malaysia 2021 is set to take place on 24-25 February virtually. Over the course of two days, there will be over 60 presentations and live panel debates from leading educators and ed-tech innovators in Malaysia. There will be interaction, Q & A, and live town hall sessions. It will bring together education leaders, policymakers, decision-makers, professionals, technology partners, and stakeholders across the region to inspire, learn, collaborate and innovate. I shared… Continue reading EDuTECH Asia 2021 – Digital transformation for higher-education

A while ago, one of my colleagues suggested reading the book with the title “Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager” by Michael Lopp. I really enjoyed it, and I had to share it with my network. I am so glad that I took the advise and read the book (actually listened). Thanks, Ismail Siraj.

I’ll be presenting Co-botting” with Automation: Raising efficiencies in repetitive tasks with robot-human collaborationAt3rd Annual Digital Transformation Summit, 18th-19th November 2020 #digitaltransformation #automation #innovation #cloud #apistrategy

Ringelmann effect. We need to keep the teams small, and that is why the concept of two pizza teams was born. “We try to create teams that are no larger than can be fed by two pizzas,” said Jeff Bezos. “We call that the two-pizza team rule.” Image source:https://lnkd.in/gBVedy6 #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #teamsize #teamwork #team #devops

The conference was organized by Mindware PLT and Akademi Pengajian Bahasa (APB) UiTM, Shah Alam. IENNE 2020 aims to bring together experts in the field, practitioners, scholars and various stakeholders to share pertinent issues and challenges in emerging ‘new normal’ in COVID-19 environment. It is a great opportunity to discuss new possibilities for sharing insights and to develop sustainable professional networks at an important crossroad towards new normal education. Session 11 “Business, Marketing, Management and Social Innovations” 11:05-13:00 | November 29, 2020 (Sunday) Paper ID Title IENNE-034 Case Study: Organizational growth, the Case of LEGO Presenter: Reza Ganji. IENNE-035 External… Continue reading Presentation at International e-Conference on New Normal in Education 2020 (IENNE 2020)

In the past eight months, there has been an astonishing number of changes in how learners receive content and learning materials, as well as the communication methods with instructors. During this period, the changes were far more than what we had seen in the past four to five years combined. Considering how fast institutions had to apply the changes to survive the pandemic, the usual change processes were either not considered or partially ignored. Like any IT organization, my team and I had to ensure our clients could keep up with the changes, including the necessary pieces of training, infrastructure… Continue reading Microsoft Teams is NOT your next LMS

It’s usual to assume bureaucracy is a terrible thing. But interestingly it has its own advantages.I was reading about Bureaucracy Theory and came across the advantages of bureaucracy.It increases creativity, predictability, scalability, and discourages favoritism. Interesting read:https://lnkd.in/gWjKErk #management #creativity #leadership #bureaucracy

Minister of Health accessing Malaysian health data warehouse using Amazon Alexa to query KPI of hospitals at SNOMED International Kuala Lumpur. This was a PoC Project done in collaboration between APU and MoH to bring the health warehouse to the Alexa assistant. The Alexa back-end was done by my good friend and colleague Mustafa (Bofa). #awsps #awspublicsector #apu #awscloud #malaysia #medical #healthcare #research #digitalhealth Amazon Web Services (AWS)Amazon Alexa DevelopersAsia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU / APIIT)APIIT

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Sep 30 2019, I was interviewed in AWS Public Sector Summit to elaborate our digital transformation journey to the cloud. Higher learning institutes, be it colleges or universities, want to ensure they have the right infrastructure for their students. Having the right infrastructure means students will have a more studious environment. But apart from good physical infrastructures like state-of-the-art laboratories, libraries, and classrooms, the digital infrastructure needs to be looked into as well. With the current generation of students highly depending on technology, higher learning institutes have also notched up their digital infrastructure. Over a decade ago, universities that offered… Continue reading Interview with Disruptive Tech ASEAN

Interview with Malaysian tech press “Amanz” on September 2019 on How AWS supports Malaysian institutions to transform a and innovate: Pada acara AWS Public Sector Summit 2019 yang lalu, pihak AWS telah berkongsi tentang bagaimana perkhidmatan mereka membantu sektor-sektor awam di rantau Asia. Antara organisasi Malaysia yang turut terlibat dalam acara ini adalah Asia Pacific University dan juga aplikasi Citizen E-Payment Platform (CEPat). Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) Reza M. Ganji, selaku Ketua Transformasi Digital, Asia Pacific University telah berkongsi tentang bagaimana perjalanan mereka dalam sektor pendidikan di Malaysia, yang beralih daripada sistem pendidikan yang tradisional kepada… Continue reading Amanz Malaysia interview on How AWS Helps Organizations In Malaysia