Category: AWS Partner Network

The advent of automated infrastructure provisioning and cloud-based remote backup and recovery solutions has empowered organizations to embrace advanced data protection and backup strategies tailored for cloud-native workloads. Explore the architectural design and considerations customers should consider before adopting AWS Backup using private interface VPC endpoints (powered by AWS PrivateLink) to protect workloads running on VMware Cloud on AWS.

Ness Digital Engineering works with organizations to ensure AWS infrastructure supports strategic initiatives. In this post, we outline an approach for enterprises seeking a mechanism to align cloud costs with their business value. We’ll discuss various change management challenges that such efforts may encounter and share ways to address them, and explore how a robust FinOps function can solve chronic issues that plague cloud cost management at large enterprises.

At AWS, we’re at the forefront of an exciting transformation to drive our partners to new heights of productivity and profitability. Whether you want to reach new customers, sell alongside AWS sellers, or accelerate sales through AWS Marketplace, this transformation expands your opportunities every stage of your journey. In this post, we share key enhancements we’re making over the next six months to deepen your expertise and broaden the value across your business models.

With the contact center and customer experience industry evolving rapidly, more businesses are seeing the benefits of investing in innovative solutions, like Amazon Connect, to streamline their systems. We’re excited to announce the Amazon Connect Ready specialization to support seamless customer engagement across multiple channels; improve employee productivity through enhanced data collection; and provide analytics, insights, and optimization dashboards.

Enterprises undergoing digital transformation in the cloud are realizing the benefits of running their applications in containers. To help customers streamline containerized workload implementations, we’re excited to announce the Amazon ECS Delivery specialization. Amazon ECS Delivery Partners have technical expertise in assessing, scoping, designing, integrating, deploying, operating, and optimizing container environments using either Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or AWS Fargate.

IBM’s watsonx is an artificial intelligence and data platform designed to scale and accelerate the impact of AI with trusted data. As a part of watsonx, IBM has launched watsonx.data, which enables customers to scale analytics and AI with a fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture. It provides querying, governance, and open data formats for easy data access and sharing. Customers can connect to their data within minutes, gain trusted insights quickly, and reduce data warehouse costs.

Traditional security approaches are often unable to detect and stop complex API attacks. It was for exactly this purpose that Salt Security was established in 2018. Salt’s founders have a unique patent to use big data and AI/ML that allows Salt to spearhead the growing industry of dedicated API security solutions. Learn how the Salt Security platform allows for the analysis of API traffic that exposes complex attacks, including those identified in the OWASP API Security Top 10 list.

Organizations need to be able to carefully define, monitor, and manage who has access to specific pieces of data according to their policies and external regulations. Effective data governance ensures data is consistent and trustworthy without being misused. Learn how Privacera enables data access governance on Amazon Aurora, including tag-based access control policies, and how Privacera can be used to mask columns or filter by row.

The global shift towards clean energy has led to increased demand for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. This, in turn, has put the spotlight on the environmental and social impact of battery production and procurement. Amplo Global developed an artificial intelligence-led platform leveraging AWS to provide an end-to-end traceability in the production of EV batteries through ESG risk assessment capability. The platform enables businesses to create a transparent and resilient supply chain less prone to disruption.

Internet of Things (IoT) use cases typically involve an enormous number of connected devices, both currently in existence and anticipated in the future, which will generate an even greater amount of data. The increasing prevalence of microcomputing capabilities in nearly every type of device has led to a fully-connected world. Learn how to use Confluent and AWS to solve device management and data management challenges that may be encountered in IoT use cases.