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AWS Operations

AWS HIPAA Program Update – Removal of Dedicated Instance Requirement

By Aaron Friedman, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS focused on Healthcare and Life Sciences I love working with Healthcare Competency Partners in the AWS Partner Network (APN) as they deliver solutions that meaningfully impact lives. Whether building SaaS solutions on AWS tackling problems like electronic health records, or offering platforms designed to achieve HIPAA compliance for customers, […]

Why Use AWS Lambda in a Custom VPC?

By Akash Jain. Akash is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS.  As a Partner Solutions Architect (SA), I work closely with APN Partners as they look to use AWS services in innovative ways to address their customers’ use cases. Recently, I came across an interesting use case with an APN Partner who configured an […]

AWS Cloud Practitioner

CoreOS and Ticketmaster Bring AWS Application Load Balancer Support to Kubernetes

Editor’s note: The ALB Ingress Controller is an official AWS project as of November 2018. Instructions for use are covered in the Amazon EKS documentation. By Brandon Chavis, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Kubernetes continues to grow in popularity on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, and as with any popular tool or service, customers […]

Generating Custom AWS CloudFormation Templates with Lambda to Create Cross-Account Roles

Ian Scofield is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS.  In a previous post in our series, we showed how to use an AWS CloudFormation launch stack URL to help customers create a cross-account role in their AWS account. As mentioned in an earlier APN Blog post, a cross-account role is the recommended method to […]

AWS Migration

Facilitating a Migration to AWS with CloudEndure by Leveraging Automation

By Carmen Puccio and Mandus Momberg, Partner Solutions Architects at AWS focused on Migration It’s no secret that migrating software and services from an on-premises environment to the cloud entails unique considerations and requirements. To provide confidence in the outcome of your migration, your migration strategy needs to scale easily. This means that a large […]

Automating Lifecycle Rules for Multipart Uploads in Amazon S3

Erin McGill co-authored this blog with Mike Ruiz. Both Erin and Mike are AWS Partner Solutions Architects.  Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) provides a secure, durable, highly scalable, and simple way to store your object data. It’s easy to create new buckets to contain data, and to store and retrieve any amount of data […]

Have You Read Our 2016 AWS Partner Solutions Architect Guest Posts?

In 2016, we hosted 38 guest posts from AWS Partner Solutions Architects (SAs), who work very closely with both Consulting and Technology Partners as they build solutions on AWS. As we kick off 2017, I want to take a look back at all of the fantastic content created by our SAs. A few key themes emerged […]

How We Built a SaaS Solution on AWS, by CrowdTangle

The following is a guest post from Matt Garmur, CTO at CrowdTangle, a startup and APN Technology Partner who makes it easy for you to keep track of what’s happening on social media. Enjoy! Horses were awesome. If you had a messenger service 150 years ago, using horses was so much better than the alternative, walking. […]

How Signiant Uses AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB to run its SaaS Solution on AWS

By Mike Deck, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS When AWS Lambda was launched in 2014, it unlocked an ability for AWS customers and partners to implement full-featured, scalable solutions without the need to deploy or manage any servers. I work with many SaaS partners who are now leveraging the serverless model for various components of their architecture. […]