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As organizations continue to expand their cloud infrastructure, they have ongoing requirements to connect their AWS environments to other cloud providers. However, connecting different cloud networks seamlessly and securely can be a challenge due to varying networking architectures, security models, and operational tools. Learn how Aviatrix Systems simplifies this process and enables businesses to fully leverage AWS while easily connecting to other cloud providers.

Customers can use Grafana Cloud to connect over 60 of the most popular AWS services. Interacting with those services in Grafana Cloud is easier than ever, providing one portal to set up and manage an entire AWS observability strategy. This post takes a closer look at the changes that will make it easier to manage your AWS environment. Grafana Labs supports users’ infrastructure and applications wherever they are, regardless of data type or source.

AWS experts break down what SaaS providers should consider in designing and building their compliant solution. We’ll dive into how achieving compliance will be an ongoing process, but regular monitoring and reporting can help make adhering to these frameworks a standard part of business operations. Good security controls, data privacy, and data management should be foundational components of a SaaS application from the beginning.

Software-as-a-service products have revolutionized private sector business operations in recent years, but despite the commercial sector’s demonstrated success with SaaS the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has been slow to adopt this new delivery model. Learn how the Game Warden platform, built by Second Front Systems, a DoD-compliant DevSecOps platform as a service that accelerates software delivery onto DoD networks while adhering to stringent cybersecurity controls.

Many organizations still are managing expensive single use case data environments, however, and IBM’s Modern Data Accelerators on AWS can help build modern implementation of a data fabric architecture, enabling customers to realize faster time to value. Learn how IBM’s Modern Data Accelerators can help build modern implementation of a data fabric architecture, which standardizes data integration across the enterprise.

Online analytical processing (OLAP) is a method of organizing datasets in a multi-dimensional format for quick analysis and provides deeper insights for decision-makers. Multi-dimension analysis is widely adopted by analysts, knowledge users, and power users for their decision support process. Learn how utilizing AWS analytic services and migration tools together with HCLTech frameworks to orchestrate OLAP solutions.

Various paths can be taken to address the perceived need for modernization. Some consider moving existing mainframe applications to distributed or cloud platforms to reduce costs, enhance performance, and increase business agility as a form of modernization. Learn how the Accenture AWS Business Group (AABG) simplifies mainframe modernization complexity with its Mainframe Zero Approach. Accenture offers comprehensive solutions to migrate and manage operations on AWS.

As organizations evolve with hybrid architectures and build on AWS, their developers want to rely on the native AWS Secrets Manager to simplify development and operations. Learn about a jointly developed solution between CyberArk and AWS that was designed to centralize control of secrets, automate rotation, and eliminate vault sprawl for security teams while making no changes to developer workflows. The CyberArk identity solution is CyberArk’s SaaS-delivered identity and access management.

Kyndryl Cloud Native Services for AWS (KCNS) is designed to accelerate and automate managed services for workloads leveraging AWS-native services. KCNS provides a web interface, called Control Plane, for users to perform various operations, including CloudOps, SecOps, and FinOps. This post explains how to simply, optimize, and automate cloud operations with KCNS for AWS and is targeted at pre-sales and delivery architects set out to design cloud-native solutions for customers.

As applications go to market and the customer workload increases rapidly, a higher level of cloud expertise is typically needed to tune the AWS infrastructure. Learn how Avahi Technologies and AWS collaborated to help InovCares take on the challenge of tuning a cloud infrastructure to support applications as workloads increase. Avahi was well suited for this project for its ability to help customers drive change and compete at speed by leveraging a cloud-first strategy.