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Cisco Security Cloud uses Anchore to achieve FedRAMP compliance for its cloud solutions. Anchore integrates with Cisco’s AWS CodePipeline, Amazon ECR registry, and Amazon EKS to scan containers throughout the pipeline, enforcing vulnerability policies. Its integration allowed Cisco to expand Anchore to Amazon ECS and generate software bill of materials for the cybersecurity executive order. The comprehensive Anchore solution on AWS strengthened Cisco’s regulated security posture.

Organizations face increasing demands for transparency around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters. PwC’s Unified Sustainability Hub helps access and manage ESG data, providing automated data ingestion, a centralized view of sustainability performance, intelligent data extraction, carbon accounting, reporting/analytics, forecasting capabilities, and a generative AI assistant. It accelerates sustainability transitions by integrating stakeholders, processes, and standards.

As organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they need tools to assess application portfolios for cloud readiness. CAST Highlight provides automated analysis of custom applications, identifying issues like outdated code, cloud migration blockers, and opportunities for cloud-native services. By integrating with AWS Migration Hub Journeys, CAST offers a template to orchestrate analysis of large portfolios across teams to accelerate cloud migration and modernization initiatives.

Connecting IoT devices securely to the cloud can be complex, but AWS IoT ExpressLink simplifies this by providing connectivity modules with built-in security from AWS Partners. Cardinal Peak used these modules to accelerate IoT product prototyping, avoiding hardware redesigns, simplifying firmware, using pre-installed certificates, streamlining manufacturing, and enabling efficient cloud onboarding. Overall, AWS IoT ExpressLink helped Cardinal Peak save over 6 months of engineering time.

NextBillion.ai provides mapping solutions for enterprises, aiming to deliver precise estimated time of arrival (ETA). It developed ENZYME, a system leveraging AWS services like Amazon SageMaker to evaluate map quality and improve ETA accuracy through machine learning. By feeding industry data into custom models, ENZYME reduces the mean absolute percentage error between estimated and actual arrival times by 10-20% compared to regular maps.

nOps Compute Copilot extends the capabilities of the open-source Karpenter Kubernetes cluster autoscaler, adding awareness of your AWS compute commitments like Reserved Instances and Savings Plans. It also analyzes Amazon EC2 Spot pricing data and termination risk to intelligently select the most cost-effective and stable Spot Instances for workloads. nOps automatically manages your Karpenter configurations, updating NodePools based on its cost optimization analysis and recommendations.

Companies often need to securely share digital resources when collaborating, and the extranet provides a mechanism for this using cloud platforms like AWS. Alkira’s Extranet-as-a-Service (EaaS) solution enables secure global connectivity, network segmentation, NAT for overlapping IPs, and integrated security for partner access to AWS applications. Alkira reinvents networking for the cloud era and allows enterprises to build networks with cloud-like speed, agility, and 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.

Generative AI adoption is rapidly growing to meet the massive data needs of modern machine learning models. Manually labeling data can be time-consuming but AWS has collaborated with Datasaur to offer solutions addressing data labeling challenges using generative AI. Datasaur’s NLP Platform automates annotation tasks and integrates with AWS services, and its LLM Labs evaluates large language models’ performance and cost for labeling.

Securing PII can be challenging with data scattered across repositories, as organizations often struggle to maintain robust security and compliance measures. Skyflow’s Data Privacy Vault, available on AWS Marketplace, delivers security, compliance, and data residency for AWS workloads by isolating and tokenizing sensitive data. It integrates with Cloud Storage Security to automatically scan uploaded files for malware, further protecting infrastructure and easing sensitive file management.