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Best Practices from Crayon for Building an Agile Cloud Center of Excellence with AWS
For Crayon, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, the idea of a Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) started from its vision and strategy to accelerate cloud adoption for customers—from cloud strategy, migration, and modernization to managed operations. Learn how a CCoE plays a strategic role when it comes to centralizing the knowledge in order to make solutions available in a quick and repeatable way to different departments in the organization.
Automating a Global Meraki Deployment in Multiple AWS Regions
Cisco Meraki customers commonly question how they can extend their SD-WAN environment into an existing Amazon Web Services (AWS) footprint. They desire high availability and a way to automate reachability from their cloud resources down to their local branches. This post explores how Cisco Meraki customers can use an AWS Quick Start to help automate the highly available deployment of Meraki vMXs in multiple AWS Regions along with route propagation.
Double Your Speed-to-Data Quality with Elula’s Data Quality Checker and AWS Glue
Data quality is traditionally inconsistent and slow across teams and functions. Custom solutions are purpose-built, of varying quality, and rarely maintained. Elula developed a proprietary Data Quality Checker (DQC) powered by AWS Glue, and an Automated Data Assessment (ADA) user interface to accelerate the identification and prioritization of issues. Elula is an AWS Partner and leading provider of artificial intelligence (AI) software to the financial services sector.
Modernize Mainframe Workloads to AWS with Astadia Automated Refactoring
Legacy technologies such as COBOL, IDMS, Natural, Adabas, Assembler, IMS, and EGL, as well as their rapidly vanishing expertise, are becoming the number one burden for many mainframe customers. Learn how Astadia can help customers quickly and safely move entire mainframe applications to AWS. Astadia works with clients to modernize their IT investments to accelerate time to value, increase productivity, decrease risk, and optimize costs.
Big Data Analytics with Amazon EMR and Esri’s ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine
Data is growing in all aspects of our world; every vertical and technical domain is being pushed to the limit by growing data—geospatial is no exception. Learn about Esri’s ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine on Amazon EMR and how its geospatial capabilities can complement your current analytics workflows. GeoAnalytics seamlessly integrates with Amazon EMR and can be deployed with an Esri-provided bootstrap script at EMR cluster creation.
How to Mask Sensitive Data on AWS Using DataMasque
DataMasque is an AWS Partner that removes sensitive data from the databases and replaces it with realistic and functional masked values that enable effective development, testing, and analytics. This empowers AWS customers to do secure deployments in testing or non-production environments while mitigating the data breach security risks and allowing relevant teams to focus on development and testing of their applications without hinderance.
How to Use a CIS Hardened Image to Set Up an Amazon EC2 Mac Instance
Learn how to set up an Amazon EC2 Mac instance with a hardened image provided by the Center for Internet Security (CIS). This will help you to mitigate common threats like malware, denial of service, insufficient authorization, and overlapping trust boundary threats. CIS is an AWS Partner and community-driven nonprofit that aims to make the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments.
How WNS Document Verification Solution Leverages AWS to Power Auditor Telemetry
To ensure the safety of travelers and give them renewed confidence in flying, the air travel industry has introduced processes to obtain and validate COVID-19 vaccination information before journey commencement at the origin airport. In this post, we discuss how the WNS Document Verification Solution leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) to capture auditor telemetry for enabling increased auditor productivity.
Building an Asset Tracking Solution Using LoRaWAN with Semtech LoRa Cloud and AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN
LoRaWAN is a leading protocol utilizing Semtech’s LoRa long-range communications technology for LPWAN in battery-operated, remote monitoring, and control applications. AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN offers a fully-managed LoRaWAN network server and delivers highly scalable, reliable services for a wide variety of use cases. Learn the core elements in an asset tracking application and how AWS and Semtech help lower the barrier for developers looking to deploy solutions.
Safely Modernizing a Monolith with AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces
AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is designed to help customers refactor existing applications incrementally, while increasing business agility and time to market and maximizing the business value of AWS. Follow a demonstration of an actual upgrade of a monolithic application with AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces, including setting up the Migration Spaces environment and refactoring two microservices of the monolithic application.









