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As SaaS organizations grow and begin to extend their global reach, they must consider how their larger geographic footprint will shape and influence the architecture of their systems. Operations, deployment, agility, security, and scale all can be impacted by the move to a geographically distributed SaaS model. The more complexity that is added to a system’s operational and deployment profile, the more challenging it becomes to maintain the agility goals that are often associated SaaS delivery models.

Networking is often viewed as a foundational element of a system’s architecture. The reality is there are plenty of scenarios where the networking footprint of a SaaS application can influence the functionality, extensibility, and management profile of your SaaS environment. While there are plenty of creative ways developers leverage AWS networking constructs to refine SaaS solutions, the introduction of AWS PrivateLink adds new opportunities in the SaaS networking landscape.

To gain the insights needed to fuel business growth, organizations need to collect more data and do more with it. That’s where a data lake can help—it’s a repository that holds a large amount of raw data in its native (structured or unstructured) format until that data is needed, enabling you to accommodate virtually any use case. Check out Cloudwick’s Data Lake Foundation on AWS Quick Start, and then drill down a bit deeper into the workings and value of the data catalog.

The AWS Competency Program admitted seven new APN Partners in December—spanning workload, solution, and industry designations. The AWS Competency Program provides customers with highlighted APN Partners that have demonstrated technical proficiency through an AWS Technical Validation and proven customer success in specialized solution areas. Please join us in welcoming our newest AWS Competency Partners.

Over the past two months we’ve held AWS Partner Summits in locations across the globe, including Australia, Singapore, India, and Korea. At these four events, AWS recognized the accomplishments of a select group of APN Consulting and Technology Partners across a number of categories. Let’s learn more about those who were recognized… Asia Pacific  Congratulations […]

Editor’s note: The ALB Ingress Controller is an official AWS project as of November 2018. Instructions for use are covered in the Amazon EKS documentation. By Brandon Chavis, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Kubernetes continues to grow in popularity on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform, and as with any popular tool or service, customers […]

By Erin McGill, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS AWS Partners frequently ask me about the most secure way to access resources in a customer account. While this is possible using keys – secrets that are hard to manage, rotate, and ideally, should never be shared. We recommend that AWS Partners use a more secure method: […]

By Ian Scofield, Partner Solutions Architects – AWS By Mike Ruiz, Partner Solutions Architect – AWS If you are familiar with Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) and the EBS volume snapshotting process, you may know that we recommend initializing – that is, reading every block – on volumes that have been created from snapshots […]

Follow an AWS expert’s research on various encryption options such as Oracle Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Oracle Native Network Encryption (NNE), as well as SSL options on Amazon RDS. This post explains how Amazon RDS supports Oracle TDE, Oracle NNE, and SSL. If you’re an architect or a developer, this will help you plan and configure storage and network encryption on Amazon RDS. You should be aware of the need to encrypt data at rest and how Oracle TDE, Oracle NNE, and SSL can help you achieve your encryption goals.

Editor’s note: For the latest information, visit the DynamoDB website. By Tod Golding, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS If you’re designing a true multi-tenant software as a service (SaaS) solution, you’re likely to devote a significant amount of time to selecting a strategy for effectively partitioning your system’s tenant data. On Amazon Web Services (AWS), your partitioning […]