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Sri Ramachandran | Principal Cloud Solutions Architect | Fortinet. James Wenzel | Principal Solutions Architect | AWS Anthony Smith | Sr. Partner Solutions Architect | AWS Fortinet  Many customers have now deployed Fortinet’s FortiGate NGFW integrated with AWS Gateway Load balancer (GWLB) for advanced security inspection and business policy enforcement for North-South and East-West traffic […]

By Rory Wallis, APN Program Experience Manager – AWS Partner Network The AWS Partner Network (APN) is a global community that leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies, programs, expertise, and tools to build solutions and provide services for customers. The APN has more than 130,000 partners from over 200 countries, with 70% headquartered outside of […]

By Matthijs ten Seldam, Global Program Manager – AWS Ambassador Program The AWS Ambassador Program is a vibrant worldwide community of AWS experts, known as AWS Ambassadors, from AWS Partner Network (APN) Services and Software Partners. AWS Ambassadors are recognized as influential AWS professionals in supporting and driving their organization’s AWS proficiency and sharing their […]

Cisco Security Cloud uses Anchore to achieve FedRAMP compliance for its cloud solutions. Anchore integrates with Cisco’s AWS CodePipeline, Amazon ECR registry, and Amazon EKS to scan containers throughout the pipeline, enforcing vulnerability policies. Its integration allowed Cisco to expand Anchore to Amazon ECS and generate software bill of materials for the cybersecurity executive order. The comprehensive Anchore solution on AWS strengthened Cisco’s regulated security posture.

By Israel Mendes, Data Engineering leader – Caylent By Washim Nawaz, Analytics Specialist – AWS By Isaac Owusu-Hemeng, Customer Solutions Manager – AWS By Muz Syed, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect – AWS Caylent  In this post, we will discuss how APN Premier partner Caylent leveraged a 3-Day Experience Based Acceleration (EBA) workshop to finalize and […]

Organizations can enhance resilience by implementing Amazon Security Lake for centralized security data storage, Splunk for real-time data analysis, and Recorded Future for advanced threat intelligence. This unified approach tackles data silos, complex analysis, slow threat detection, compliance challenges, and inefficient resource utilization. Security Lake aggregates data sources, Splunk analyzes it with AI/ML for swift threat identification, and Recorded Future provides external intelligence context.

Arcanum AI migrated its generative AI workloads from OpenAI to AWS using a two-phase model evaluation process. Open-source LLMs were tested out-of-the-box and with customized prompts, scored by experts, and evaluated against existing use cases. Amazon Bedrock provided a private network and access control for handling sensitive client data. AWS’s AI services enabled Arcanum to deploy top-performing LLMs securely in clients’ VPCs, outperforming OpenAI models while meeting security needs.

This post presents a cost-effective, serverless multi-tenant SaaS architecture utilizing AWS managed services. Users can belong to multiple tenants via Amazon Cognito user groups, and the solution enables seamless tenant switching and allows tenants to define custom roles with Amazon DynamoDB transactions. By leveraging AWS services, the architecture provides security, isolation, custom permissions, and flexibility to scale without operational overhead.

When designing IT solutions, a one-size-fits-all approach misses opportunities for performance and cost savings. Exxeta proposes a use-case driven architecture approach that fits IT components to specific business processes. A real-world example shows how this approach helped an automotive company build a high-performance, scalable analytics solution at a lower cost by utilizing fit-for-purpose technologies like Apache HBase and Amazon S3.

The 3-2-1 backup strategy ensures data protection by maintaining multiple copies across different storage media, with at least one copy offsite. As companies adopt SaaS applications, they need strategies to backup critical SaaS data. Own Company (formerly OwnBackup) enables SaaS data backups to Amazon S3, providing data autonomy, meeting recovery objectives, and allowing data analysis.