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Learn how to apply the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) security perspective to VMware Cloud on AWS. This post covers the shared responsibility model between VMware, AWS, and the customer across areas like security governance, access management, threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response. Understanding these distinct scopes is critical for maintaining a strong security and compliance posture when using VMware Cloud on AWS.

The world of video entertainment is more competitive than ever. The video entertainment landscape is crowded, so content providers must deeply understand viewer behavior to stand out. Synamedia Clarissa, built on AWS, delivers data-driven insights to help businesses boost viewer satisfaction. Clarissa analyzes video consumption and user experiences, providing content and app insights like which videos resonate best and how users discover content.

Kubernetes simplifies application deployment but introduces certificate management challenges. Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that automates security patching, while AppViewX KUBE+ automates certificate lifecycle management across the Kubernetes environment. By integrating AppViewX KUBE+ with EKS, organizations gain robust automation, DevOps and security alignment, operational efficiency, and agility for secure cloud-native operations.

Contact centers often face challenges due to lack of visibility into customers’ omnichannel experiences. Joulica’s Customer Journey Analytics solution, part of AWS Contact Center Intelligence, provides a unified, real-time view of each customer’s journey across voice, digital, and social interactions. Built on AWS data streaming architecture, it empowers agents with holistic customer understanding and enhances customer satisfaction and brand perception through optimized experiences.

Cellular IoT offers reliable, low-power, wide-area connectivity and its rapid growth is driven by increasing connected device demand across industries. Producing IoT devices at scale requires months of preparation, and Semtech’s AirVantage Device Control leverages hardware roots of trust to enable zero-touch provisioning, seamlessly binding devices to AWS IoT Core. This lowers manufacturing costs through single global SKUs, improves security, and accelerates time-to-market by eliminating provisioning customization.

Enterprises are seeking mainframe modernization to drive efficiency, agility, and innovation. A Kyndryl survey revealed that 95% are migrating mainframe applications to the cloud, with 37% of workloads being relocated on average. Despite challenges like workforce shortage, businesses report increased profitability and millions in average annual savings through modernization. Kyndryl offers expertise, tools, and solutions to assist clients in navigating this complex journey seamlessly while enhancing operational efficiency.

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.

Comprinno migrated a fitness app’s databases from Google Cloud to AWS to reduce costs. Challenges included migrating large PostgreSQL databases without downtime and accessing Google’s managed subnets. Comprinno established a VPN between clouds, used a SQL proxy to enable the AWS Database Migration Service, and parallelized data loading to meet the tight migration window. By moving to Graviton-based Amazon RDS, the customer reduced database costs by 30%.

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.

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.