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How to Analyze Fastly Content Delivery Network Logs with Amazon QuickSight Powered by Generative BI

A content delivery network (CDN) caches content closer to users and reduces load times. Monitoring CDN performance is crucial for optimizing user experience, and this post demonstrates building an Amazon QuickSight dashboard with generative AI capabilities to gain insights from Fastly CDN logs in Amazon S3. It covers configuring real-time log streaming, using AWS Glue to catalog data, accelerating dashboard creation using natural language, and creating rich data stories for stakeholders.

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.

How to Deploy Amazon Translate Spoke in ServiceNow for Language Detection and Translation

ServiceNow and AWS have collaborated to bridge language barriers in global workforces. Using AWS services like Amazon Translate and Amazon Comprehend, the AWS Translate Spoke for ServiceNow Flow Designer enables automatic translation of text into employees’ native languages. By demonstrating how the AWS Translate Spoke can translate knowledge articles, this post explains how ServiceNow customers can easily build multi-language workflows to serve global users.

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Fusing Business Data with an Enterprise Data Solution for a Unified Data Strategy

As companies grow, data can become fragmented across business units, hindering insights. PwC built an enterprise data solution on AWS to centralize data and streamline ingestion from diverse sources into a consolidated data lake using native AWS services and configurations. This reduces bespoke data collection, freeing up time for analysis and innovation with consistent, up-to-date data sets. The expandable solution accelerates stand up and bridges silos to unlock operational insights across the business.

Managing an Enterprise Backup Strategy with AWS Backup and CloudQuery

AWS Backup simplifies policy-based data protection at scale, and observability offers insights into the backup process for monitoring, issue detection, troubleshooting, and optimization. This ensures backup dependability, efficiency, and security. CloudQuery enables managing and visualizing AWS Backup across accounts, including backup health, configuration, and protected resources to facilitate building a robust compliance posture.

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Running Bioinformatics Pipelines Cost Effectively Using MemVerge on AWS

MemVerge Memory Machine Cloud (MMCloud) enables running bioinformatics pipelines cost-effectively on Amazon EC2 Spot instances. It seamlessly integrates with Nextflow pipelines through the nf-float plugin and simplifies migrating on-premises pipelines to the AWS cloud. Learn how Columbia University and MDI Biological Laboratory leveraged MMCloud to run intensive genomic analyses at 50-80% lower cost by utilizing spot instances.

Adopting Multi-Region Architecture to Support ADP’s High Availability Requirements

ADP provides cloud-based human capital management solutions to over 1 million clients in 140 countries. Using an active-active multi-region architecture on AWS, ADP built a highly available and resilient Voice of Employee application to collect employee feedback throughout the workforce lifecycle. The multi-region deployment meets availability goals and leverages AWS services to enable rapid disaster recovery.

Identity-as-a-Service Using Amazon Managed Blockchain for Invisible and Embedded Banking

The evolution of embedded and invisible banking has led to complex integrations between financial organizations and third-party platforms. To simplify identity management across business partners, organizations are investigating identity-as-a-service solutions using blockchain. Capgemini can help implement embedded and invisible banking by leveraging Amazon Managed Blockchain to manage decentralized identities. This provides a single immutable identity for users that scales across sub-units and partners.

Why SuccessKPI’s Use of Sentiment Analysis is Transformative for Customer Experiences

Companies often struggle to understand customer sentiment in call center data, posing barriers to responding to emotions in real-time. SuccessKPI uses natural language understanding and machine learning on a large dataset to enable sentiment prediction. This helps avoid bias of human reviewers and attain objective results when analyzing customer feedback. SuccessKPI offers capabilities like sentiment by channel, time, quarter, and entity to transform customer experiences.

How Leidos Standardized its Application Logging into Amazon Security Lake with LOIS

As systems generate increasing data, making sense of it is critical. Application logs are unique and not standardized. Leidos addresses logging issues using the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) and Amazon Security Lake via the Leidos OCSF Integration Suite (LOIS), which bridges applications to generate OCSF-compliant messages and ingest them into Amazon Security Lake for analysis and visualization.