Category: Management & Governance

Spatial data creates data management challenges. Ellipsis Drive on Amazon S3 solves pain points: no scalable ingestion into a data lake, no interoperable searchability for analytics, no on-demand rendering. Benefits include scalability and time savings on management and transformation by automating ingestion and structuring; faster querying using patent-pending archives; and instant access to data to feed models and apps.

For applications running outside AWS, developers often create IAM users with long-lived credentials which can increase security risks. Instead, learn how to integrate AWS IAM Web Identity Roles with Microsoft Entra ID for centralized user management. This post walks through manual setup steps to register an app in Entra ID and create a role in AWS, and describes an automated architecture to synchronize Entra ID service principals and AWS roles.

NETSCOUT’s nGeniusONE platform offers insights into service delivery and user experience to manage availability and quality, reducing time to resolve performance issues by correlating metadata across network, applications, and devices. This post discusses implementing holistic visibility using NETSCOUT APM with VPC traffic mirroring and AWS Gateway Load Balancer. NETSCOUT delivers consistent, high-resolution visibility to identify and manage threats and performance in cloud environments.

AWS SaaS Factory and Skyflow break down what data residency is and why it’s often a barrier for businesses to scale globally. Explore how Skyflow Data Privacy Vault works and how it helps businesses overcome this barrier. To illustrate the practical application of this approach, we’ll highlight a customer story and real-world example of a company that successfully addressed its data residency needs with a scalable SaaS solution based on Skyflow Data Privacy Vault.

Crayon’s customizable landing zone accelerator automates setup of a secure, scalable AWS environment aligned to best practices. It establishes foundational accounts, applies baseline security controls, and integrates AWS services across the organization to drive cloud adoption for companies migrating to AWS while also improving governance for existing customers. Crayon guides customers through the landing zone build and subsequent workload migration, providing automation kits to speed deployments.

AWS provides discounted pricing through Reserved Instances and Savings Plans in return for usage commitments. Apptio Cloudability helps organizations maximize these commitments by analyzing AWS cost data to identify savings opportunities. Cloudability also offers automation to optimize commitments continuously, achieving higher savings than manual management allows. This frees up financial operations resources to focus on other cloud cost optimization initiatives.

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs often require extensive custom controls that address a range of compliance standards and internal governance objectives. AWS Audit Manager helps to continuously audit cloud usage to simplify risk assessment and compliance with regulation and industry standards. Learn how MetricStream has collaborated with AWS to facilitate the controls and evidence collection hand-off between AWS Audit Manager and MetricStream CyberGRC.

Dynamically adjusting infrastructure capacity based on usage fluctuations allows you to gain operational and cost benefits. Learn how Zesty Disk helps achieve greater cost efficiency and consistent performance when managing Amazon EBS volumes, and how to optimize storage at run time without adding complexity or being exposed to data on the disk. Zesty Disk’s auto-scaling technology eliminates the need for manual adjustments, streamlining operations and reducing the cognitive load for developers.

Customers use AWS Service Catalog to create and manage a catalog of IT services and products approved for use on AWS. Learn how to use AWS Service Catalog Engine for Terraform Cloud to provision your products and benefit from a self-service provisioning model that removes the heavy lifting of managing Terraform infrastructure. End users with a pre-validated catalog of infrastructure and enforce governance through Terraform Cloud features such as team permissions, run tasks, and policy sets.

Originally focused on healthcare, HITRUST is now used by organizations across industries to demonstrate regulatory compliance and risk management to a global audience. Learn how organizations can enhance the efficiency of their HITRUST compliance with A-LIGN’s compliance automation platform. A-SCEND integrates with AWS to automate evidence collection and continuously monitor cloud security in accordance with Center for Internet Security benchmarks.