AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Category: DevOps

Agile Programmatic Content Management with Contentful and AWS

Contentful’s programmatic content management in conjunction with AWS continuous integration/continuous development (CI/CD) services allow you to websites with a high agility.
Increasing the rate of content velocity by updating websites and mobile apps in a fast and secure way is pivotal for many businesses. The headless content management system, Contentful, a software as a service (SaaS)solution for AWS customers, is an excellent architecture to achieve this agility.

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How the DuploCloud platform allows customers to build SaaS on AWS

By Andy Boutte, Principal Solutions Architect, DuploCloud       Ian Hutchinson, VP, Sales, DuploCloud       Ranjith Raman, Principal Solutions Architect, AWS SaaS Factory DuploCloud Organizations building software-as-a-service often start with a true multi-tenant model, benefiting from economies of scale that comes with sharing infrastructure resources across tenants. However, often tenants need to […]

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Automate Deployment of Amazon QuickSight Assets with AWS Step Functions and QuickSight Asset Bundle APIs

Business intelligence (BI) teams aim to automate Amazon QuickSight asset deployment across environments. CyberCX developed a solution using AWS Step Functions to orchestrate exporting QuickSight analyses from one environment and importing them to another, simplifying migration. This reusable module integrates with CyberCX’s broader serverless data platform but can standalone. The entire solution is designed with security in mind and follows the principles of least privilege access.

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How Pariveda Enables Operational Data Observability Across Your AWS Data Lake at Scale

As data volumes grow, visibility into key metrics becomes crucial for optimizing reliability, performance, and cost. Pariveda’s observability solution leverages AWS services to build operational dashboards displaying AWS Glue job details like runtimes, status, and computational load. By unlocking deeper insights, users can pinpoint optimization opportunities, troubleshoot issues faster, and drive greater efficiency across their data pipelines as workloads scale.

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How to Break Down Silos and Build Faster with Cloudcraft by Datadog

With increasing cloud innovation, distributed teams need visibility into their deployed cloud resources, dependencies, and budgets when architecting new applications or reconfiguring existing solutions. Cloudcraft by Datadog helps companies achieve this cross-team alignment and enables teams to visualize and document architectures, analyze costs, run compliance audits through shareable diagrams, and automate diagram updates as infrastructure evolves.

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How to Enable Secure Self-Service Amazon EKS Cluster Provisioning with ArgoCD, Kyverno, and Nirmata Policy Manager

Containers are a leading method for packaging applications, with Kubernetes emerging as the top orchestration solution. You can enable secure and efficient self-service cluster provisioning on Amazon EKS using open-source tools like AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK), Kyverno, and ArgoCD. This post demonstrates how enterprises can leverage these tools along with Nirmata’s Policy Manager to streamline EKS cluster management, apply security policies, and ensure compliance in a Kubernetes environment.

LenelS2, a Carrier Company, Migrates Desktop Software to SaaS with Amazon AppStream 2.0

Explore how LenelS2, a Carrier company, transformed its existing OnGuard thick-client application into a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution on AWS utilizing the multi-session feature of Amazon AppStream 2.0. With this approach, LenelS2 successfully streamed the OnGuard desktop application to users via the internet without the need to redesign the core application.

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Transforming Cloud Operations, Security, and Cost Optimization on AWS with iCOPS from Tech Mahindra

In the dynamic digital landscape, enterprises are embracing cloud computing for its scalability and high availability. As cloud migration becomes a strategic priority, efficient cloud management is crucial. Tech Mahindra’s iCOPS (Intelligent Cloud Operations and Subscription Management Services) is a comprehensive platform designed to streamline cloud operations, enhance security, and optimize costs on AWS. iCOPS automates tasks like provisioning and deployment to help maximize their AWS investments.

How to Shift Left Security in Infrastructure as Code Using AWS CDK and Checkmarx KICS

Integrating security scanning into infrastructure as code (IaC) allows detecting misconfigurations early in development. This post explores using the KICS plugin from Checkmarx with AWS CDK. Learn how KICS performs static code analysis to find vulnerabilities and compliance issues in IaC and scans the CDK code to report findings, failing the command for high-severity issues. This shifts security left, mitigating risks in deployed infrastructure.

Simplifying Mobile Device Management for Apple Devices with Jamf Pro

Amazon EC2 Mac instances provide Apple hardware to develop for iOS and macOS at scale. Dependencies for building apps require privileged access, normally needing manual user approval. By enrolling EC2 Macs into Mobile Device Management (MDM) with Jamf Pro, administrators can automate remote configuration and software deployment without per-instance interaction. After launching an instance and installing required profiles with Jamf, users should create an AMI to retain the instance state.