AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Category: Developer Tools

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How Advanced Accelerated Migrations to SaaS by Using AWS Step Functions

Advanced Care Cloud is a SaaS solution running on AWS that provides care organizations of different sizes with the power to effectively manage their entire business from anywhere, at any time. Learn how Advanced used AWS Step Functions to orchestrate the solution’s onboarding process and data migration activities. We’ll also discuss the benefits Advanced achieved by leveraging Step Functions rather than building custom orchestration capability.

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Give Your Graph Workload a Cost-Performance Boost with Neo4j and AWS Graviton

AWS Graviton processors are designed to deliver the best price performance for your cloud workloads running in Amazon EC2 and the most cost-effective and performant choice for graph database workloads running Neo4j. Tests have shown that deploying Neo4j with AWS Graviton-based instances results in cost savings of up to 15% as well as a boost for write performance of up to 146% over equivalent Intel-based instances.

Tracing Tenant Activity for Multi-Account SaaS with AWS Distro for Open Telemetry

In this post, delve into the process of detecting tenant activities within microservices spanning multiple AWS accounts. We provide insights into instrumenting AWS Lambda functions to include tenant information in tracing using ADOT and demonstrated how to establish a service map across several AWS accounts using Amazon CloudWatch. By leveraging AWS observability technology, SaaS providers can enhance operational efficiency and redirect their attention towards their desired development goals.

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Improving System Resilience and Observability: Chaos Engineering with AWS FIS and AWS DLT

By automating performance testing and including chaos testing, organizations can identify failure scenarios in systems before they develop and cause downtime. Learn how Distributed Load Testing on AWS (DLT) automates performance testing at scale, and how AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) performs controlled chaos engineering experiments on AWS resources. By combining the power of AWS FIS and DLT, organizations can perform comprehensive resilience testing and continuously validate their systems.

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Setting Up OpenID Connect with GitLab CI/CD to Provide Secure Access to Environments in AWS Accounts

When building out a CI/CD pipeline, there are ways to proactively harden your pipelines when they need to access environments in AWS accounts. Given that your pipeline will have create and destroy access to critical components of your AWS-based environments, it’s important to evaluate how GitLab Runner authenticates and authorizes for access to your AWS accounts. Learn how the new OpenID Connect (OIDC) for GitLab CI/CD jobs can help you access AWS services using GitLab.

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Scaling Image Manipulation Workflows with Adobe Photoshop API on AWS

The power and flexibility of Adobe Photoshop (and Lightroom) has moved to the cloud via a new set of developer APIs. These APIs allow for powerful integrations including ecommerce generators and other content automation streams. Organizations can now get Photoshop technology in the cloud, giving you the ability to scale content workflows and save time and money in the process. Learn what developers can add to their toolbox and how they can use different AWS services to build scalable image manipulation workflow.

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How the Mendix Low-Code Application Platform Helps the Public Sector Innovate Faster with AWS

A low-code software development platform with a robust ecosystem has proven invaluable for public sector agencies tasked with reinventing digital government for a new era. Learn how Mendix has enabled public sector customers to meet the rapid pace of innovation, and removed the barriers that come with traditional deployment models by using their low-code application development platform. Mendix is a Siemens business and a global leader in enterprise low-code.

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Pushing the Boundaries of Amazon QuickSight Through Automation

Amazon QuickSight is an easy-to-use, cloud-powered analytics business intelligence tool that provides insights and analytics capabilities. Experts from AWS and Quantiphi, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, discuss an approach to assist users in leveraging Amazon QuickSight as an enterprise-wide BI tool. The entire process, creation of data sources, datasets, analysis, and eventually dashboards, can be automated using AWS CodePipeline.

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Building Scalable IT Platforms with the AWS CDK Using Attini

The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) allows developers to define their infrastructure as code using familiar programming languages. It simplifies the process of building, deploying, and managing infrastructure in AWS, making it a popular choice for organizations that want to improve their agility, reliability, and scalability. Learn how Attini helps you package your code, configuration, and deployment instructions into immutable artifacts. The Attini Framework will then automatically run your deployments for you.

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How Internal Developer Platforms Built with AWS Proton Help Achieve DevOps Best Practices

The platform engineering function also helps improve the developer experience by providing the right set of tools, technologies, and templates in a self-service portal. Redapt helps customers create their internal development platforms, which empower application developers while providing well-defined, consistent, and secure environments that are cost effective, shared, and monitored. Learn how Redapt works on IDPs using AWS Proton, an AWS managed service that helps implement IDP features for ongoing Day 2 operations.