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    Efficient satellite imagery supply with AWS Serverless at BASF Digital Farming GmbH

    BASF Digital Farming’s mission is to support farmers worldwide with cutting-edge digital agronomic decision advice by using its main crop optimization platform, xarvio FIELD MANAGER. This blog post describes the serverless architecture developed by BASF Digital Farming for efficiently downloading and supplying satellite imagery from various providers to support its xarvio platform.

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    Let’s Architect! Serverless developer experience in AWS

    Are you a developer approaching serverless for the first time, or even an experienced one looking for a better way to accelerate your feedback loop from code to production? There are plenty of developer goodies available on AWS to streamline your code creation and achieve a faster flow in your development lifecycle. In this collection of resources, we share a few examples with you.

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    How an insurance company implements disaster recovery of 3-tier applications

    In this blog post, we explore how one of our customers, a US-based insurance company, uses cloud-native services to implement the disaster recovery of 3-tier applications. he requirement was to create a disaster recovery strategy that implements a Pilot Light or Warm/Standby scenario.

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    Architectural best practices throughout the lifecycle

    Learn how to integrate architectural best practices at every stage of your workload’s lifecycle using the AWS Well-Architected Framework. (54:42)

    Building core capabilities: The secret to innovation at scale

    Unlock the potential of your business by learning how to build core capabilities. Discover how these platforms can empower your teams to innovate with speed. (43:57)

    How not to sabotage your transformation

    In this session, explore mental models based on real-world experiences designed to help organizations assess their competitiveness. (37:11)

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    Deploying Cross-Region Disaster Recovery with AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery

    This Guidance provides prescriptive instructions to deploy AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for AWS customers who are looking to protect applications that currently operate within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Region and choose to recover to another Region for disaster recovery.

    January 2025
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    Configure logging in Amazon Bedrock using CloudFormation

    Use an infrastructure as code approach to configure model invocation logging for Amazon Bedrock.

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    Tags: Infrastructure | Machine Learning | Storage & Backup

    January 21, 2025
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    Automate dynamic pipeline management to deploy hotfix solutions

    Deploy a hotfix solution to a production environment securely by using dynamic pipelines.

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    Tags: Containers | Customer Engagement | DevOps | Management & Governance | Multi-account strategy

    January 21, 2025
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    Choosing an AWS networking and content delivery service

    Help determine which AWS networking and content delivery services are the best fit for your organization.

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    Networking & Content Delivery

    January 2025
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    Generative AI Application Builder on AWS

    Accelerates development and streamlines experimentation by helping you ingest your business-specific data and documents, evaluate and compare the performance of large language models (LLMs), rapidly build extensible applications, and deploy those applications with an enterprise-grade architecture.
    November 2024
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    Enhanced Document Understanding on AWS

    Deploy an event-driven AWS Solution that automates document ingestion, analysis, detection, and redaction.

    November 2024
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    Centralize DNS resolution by using AWS Managed Microsoft AD

    Centralize DNS in an AWS multi-account environment with AWS Managed Microsoft AD and Amazon Route 53, and configure on-premises DNS servers to forward queries to AWS when you use Microsoft Active Directory in your data center.

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    Tags: Infrastructure | Networking & Remote Access

    January 13, 2025
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    Manage IAM Identity Center permission sets using CodePipeline

    Use a CI/CD pipeline to create and manage IAM Identity Center permission sets and assignments for your organization in AWS Organizations.

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    Tags: DevOps | Infrastructure | Security

    January 09, 2025
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    Encryption best practices and features for AWS services

    For core AWS services, review recommendations for encrypting data at rest and in transit, including selecting an approach based on your data classification and business needs.

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    Tags: Management & Governance | Security

    January 07, 2025
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    Connected Lodging Properties on AWS

    This Guidance demonstrates how to implement a connected Internet of Things (IoT) lodging solution that helps you enhance guest experiences, optimize resource utilization, and streamline operations.
    January 2025
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    Building a web crawler for ESG data

    Use AWS services and Python to create a scalable, ethical web crawler that collects environmental, social, and governance data.

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    Tags: High Performance Computing | Websites & Web Apps

    January 06, 2025
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    Migrate an Oracle database from on premises to Amazon RDS for Oracle by using direct Oracle Data Pump Import over a database link.

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    Tags: Databases | Migration

    January 03, 2025
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    Run unit tests for Python ETL jobs in AWS Glue

    Use the pytest framework to incorporate unit testing into your DevOps pipeline for Python ETL jobs in AWS Glue.

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    Tags: Analytics | DevOps

    January 02, 2025
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    Migrating Tabular Data from Amazon S3 to S3 Tables

    This Guidance demonstrates how to migrate tabular data from Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) general purpose buckets to Amazon S3 Tables, purpose-built storage for tabular data.
    December 2024
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    AWS multi-Region fundamentals

    Use cases, concepts, and recommendations for determining whether to adopt an AWS multi-Region strategy for your workload.

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    Tags: Cloud foundations | Infrastructure | Management & Governance

    December 27, 2024
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    Learn to more rapidly and reliably build and deliver products using AWS.
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    Learn best practices for building and running Microsoft applications.
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    Learn how to move existing applications to AWS.
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    Learn to connect devices and collect, store, and analyze device data.
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    Learn how to meet your security and compliance goals using AWS infrastructure and services.
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    Learn to build and run applications and backend services without servers.
  • Storage
    Design reliable, scalable, and secure data storage architectures.

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