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From exciting announcements to insightful sessions, this post recaps what you may have missed at VMware Explore US 2022. This year, we marked the fifth year of the jointly-engineered VMware Cloud on AWS solution. Since announcing our strategic partnership in 2016, followed by the general availability of this unique managed offering at VMworld 2017, the VMware Cloud on AWS solution has evolved and continues to help customers globally migrate and modernize their VMware workloads to the cloud.

In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the AWS Partner Network (APN), we are highlighting some of our AWS Partners who have grown with us over the past decade. ClearScale is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner that helps customers design, build, deploy, and manage complex cloud architectures on time and on budget. We spoke with ClearScale CEO Pavel Pragin about how their business has grown and evolved over the last decade and what AWS partner programs have been most valuable.

A SaaS data platform may run in the account of an ISV or a dedicated account provided by the customer. Learn about the main AWS services SaaS data platforms can integrate with to provide customers with a seamless experience and take advantage of AWS services in order to accelerate their drive to meeting their business goals. Explore how those integrations can be built and examples of AWS ISV Partners who have successfully developed these integrations.

Explore a solution Contino built for a client to automate security scanning on software packages. This allowed developers to continue building, without added friction, and helped security teams be confident that vulnerabilities are discovered early and didn’t make their way to production. Learn about the context Contino was working with and the approach it took, and the technical challenges faced. After reading this post, you’ll understand how to develop a similar solution for your organization and some pitfalls to avoid.

HP Anyware from HP Teradici is the first high-performance remote desktop solution for EC2 Mac instances, providing a graphics-intensive computing experience with high color fidelity, crisp text, and up to 4K UHD resolution. HP Anyware enables you to remotely access your EC2 Mac instances as if they were on a local machine, with the resolution and color fidelity you need for the best desktop experience.

Procure-to-pay automation often creates data silos which cause new problems and inefficiencies. Businesses need to break down data silos for a complete picture of spending and saving enterprise-wide. It’s time to reimagine the procure-to-pay process with a data-driven and fact-based approach. Learn how Genpact and AWS helped a Fortune 500 energy giant transform its procure-to-pay business, delivering savings of over $100 million in the first year alone.

Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP is a native AWS managed service powered by NetApp ONTAP software and available around the world. This integration makes it easy and cost effective for a SDDC to be scaled with additional storage capacity through Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. This post will help you decide if using Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as a customer-managed network file system datastore within VMware Cloud on AWS is suitable for you.

Learn how to set up Active Directory authentication with authorization for Postgres. Heimdall Data provides synchronization scripts for other databases as well, allowing all Amazon RDS instance types to be supported in a similar way. Using Active Directory authentication allows organizations to standardize their password and authorization management via a globally available authentication store, reducing management overhead and improving security and auditing capabilities.

Adspert is an ad tech specialist that supports e-commerce companies in maximizing their profit on Amazon, eBay, Google and Bing by optimizing their pay-per-click (PPC) campaigns. The AWS SaaS Factory team spoke with Adspert to learn about the transformation their business went through in the last six months and the process of changing their SaaS packing and pricing changes, outcomes, impact on their product strategy, and business model.

As customers adopt VMware Cloud on AWS, it’s important to provide scalable and reliable hybrid connectivity to help integrate SDDCs with on-premises and cloud-native services. VMware Cloud on AWS customers have additional network security requirements including network encryption, firewall integration, and traffic segmentation. Learn about hybrid network design patterns and considerations, and go through various network architecture design options and use cases addressing customer requirements.