Category: Networking & Content Delivery

Amagi provides cloud broadcast solutions with tiered redundancy offerings to mitigate risks for broadcasters during disruptive events. Its CLOUDPORT platform supports hot, warm, and cold disaster recovery configurations spanning single/multi AWS Availability Zones and regions for varying recovery times. Exhaustive tuning, testing, and regular DR drills validate the failover capabilities aligned with broadcaster requirements for cost-effective business continuity.

As organizations move to the cloud, securing workloads, applications, and data becomes critical. This post discusses using Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange to provide comprehensive cloud security. Key security capabilities highlighted include SSL inspection, data loss prevention, and URL filtering policies tailored for cloud workloads. The post provides guidance on design considerations and implementing baseline security policies within the Zscaler platform.

A content delivery network (CDN) caches content closer to users and reduces load times. Monitoring CDN performance is crucial for optimizing user experience, and this post demonstrates building an Amazon QuickSight dashboard with generative AI capabilities to gain insights from Fastly CDN logs in Amazon S3. It covers configuring real-time log streaming, using AWS Glue to catalog data, accelerating dashboard creation using natural language, and creating rich data stories for stakeholders.

Salesforce and AWS provide integrations that extend platform capabilities to help organizations solve unique business problems. Customers leverage Salesforce for modern user workflows and AWS for backend services, system integration, and data analytics. Integrations link the platforms through automation and tightly coupled services to meet security and performance needs, often using asynchronous event flows.

As online commerce grows, so do opportunities for fraud. Businesses lose billions annually to bots and attacks like scraping and payment fraud, making effective and scalable protection essential. DataDome provides accurate, real-time detection and mitigation without compromising user experience. By deploying globally on AWS and optimizing performance, DataDome achieves sub-millisecond response times to inspect every request while minimizing false positives.

Salesforce customers hosted on Hyperforce can now access services over the public internet. Some customers require dedicated, managed connections for compliance or reliability, but Salesforce Express Connect is incompatible with Hyperforce. For direct connectivity from on-premises to Hyperforce, AWS Direct Connect offers guaranteed bandwidth and an SLA. This post provides best practices on using AWS Direct Connect to access Hyperforce deployed on AWS.

Cisco Multicloud Defense is a highly scalable, on-demand as-a-service solution that provides cloud-native and flexible security to your multicloud infrastructure. It unifies security controls across cloud environments, protects workloads from multiple directions, and drives operational efficiency with automation and orchestration of cloud-native constructs. Cisco Multicloud Defense consists of two major components: Multicloud Defense Controller and Cisco Multicloud Defense Gateway.

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.

In the ever-expanding digital landscape, the need for global accessibility has become paramount. Mission Cloud, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and leader in harnessing generative AI on AWS, joined forces with MagellanTV to reshape content delivery on the company’s documentary streaming platform, which contains a massive library of over 3,000 series that are accessible through top streaming platforms. This success story was featured during Ruba Borno’s Partner Keynote at AWS re:Invent 2023.

AWS PrivateLink allows customers to securely connect cloud and on-premises data sources to Alation’s data catalog without exposing traffic to the public internet. This integration provides private connectivity between the customer’s VPC and Alation Cloud Service and simplifies network architecture. Using PrivateLink with Alation enables organizations to build a catalog of metadata from selected data assets while maintaining compliance with security and regulatory requirements.