Category: Management & Governance

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.

Kyndryl Application Management for SAP on AWS is a managed service designed to harness the full power of SAP and enhance agility and efficiency with cloud-enabled workloads on AWS. Learn about the solution’s support models, how to build resilient architectures, and tools and automation that can help you eliminate skills gaps, simplify SAP operations for applications running on AWS, and increase visibility with a managed service portal that shows SAP applications and the AWS infrastructure from a single pane of glass.

AWS offers a wide range of services that can help implement Industry 4.0 processes and tools seamlessly. Concept Reply supports and advises customers on all aspects of IoT and cloud computing—from designing and developing customized IoT solutions to implementing and managing them seamlessly. Learn how AWS services can be utilized to develop a scalable IoT solution that offers high performance and low latency, along with monitoring capabilities that help achieve Industry 4.0 standards.

Resiliency in the cloud is the ability to maintain availability and recover from software and operational disruption in a designated time frame. Following best practices from the AWS Well-Architected Framework, AWS Resilience Hub enables visibility for applications deployed by AWS CloudFormation, including cross-region and cross-account stacks. AWS Resilience Hub also supports defining an application AppRegistry, resource groups, Terraform, and applications using Amazon EKS.