Category: Best Practices

Complying with FedRAMP poses challenges for DevOps teams, including slower deployment speeds, process overhead, and complex AWS GovCloud requirements. To optimize velocity while maintaining compliance, organizations can shift security controls left, automate workflows, and architect secure in-boundary pipelines. With the proper frameworks, teams can increase deployment frequency and reduce change failure rates in FedRAMP environments.

As we continue to transform the AWS Partner experience, we’re excited to share updates to the Validation Checklists (VCL) for AWS Specialization Programs (AWS Competency, Managed Service Provider, Service Delivery, and Service Ready). Effective January 1, 2024, the updates drive efficiencies during onboarding, allowing partners to achieve an AWS Specialization faster and making it easier to utilize benefits.

The AWS SaaS Factory team delves into ITV’s innovative strides in the media and entertainment industry—particularly its creation of Planet V, an autonomous platform facilitating the reservation of TV ad campaigns on ITVX, a network of streaming channels. After two years of production, Planet V underwent a rearchitecting process aimed at enhancing customer experience and ensuring a future-proof solution. ITV enlisted AWS Partner The Scale Factory to collaboratively design, build, and fortify the platform’s infrastructure.

AWS launched a Generative AI Center of Excellence to help partners keep pace with rapid advancements in generative AI. The CoE provides exclusive resources like playbooks, trainings, and marketing assets to educate partners on building solutions using AWS generative AI services. We’ll continue adding generative AI resources to accelerate strategies that enable partners to help customers adopt generative AI securely, responsibly, and cost-effectively.

Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle provides all the management benefits of Amazon RDS, as well as the ability to customize the database. While RDS makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale relational databases within AWS, however, legacy applications like Oracle E-Business Suite (E-BS) require customization of database environments not supported by RDS. Learn about Navisite’s implementation of Oracle E-BS with Amazon RDS Custom for Oracle, along with advice for setup and management.

Sports organizations possess a vast amount of data about fans which can be used to generate actionable insights. The ability to send personalized marketing to fans increases satisfaction and loyalty while enabling the team to cross-sell and drive revenue. Learn how Slalom‘s fan engagement data platform accelerator ingests and presents fan data in a centralized layer and empowers organizations to focus on segmentation and insight. The platform is based upon Slalom’s experience with a Premier League football club.

AWS and the AWS Partner Network (APN) have made strategic investments to empower software providers to create distinctive SaaS solutions. Explore how they cultivate a potent growth strategy through tailored GTM initiatives and facilitate the transition of on-premises customers to modern SaaS offerings. Migrations can be daunting, so we’ll examine success stories of other companies and strategies they’ve employed to face these challenges and thrive in the SaaS landscape.

In this post, AWS experts provide a step-by-step guide on how to navigate and leverage the AWS Partner Network (APN) and AWS Marketplace, depending on where you are in your development journey. We’ll demonstrate how your security and engineering teams can integrate continuous compliance controls and how to add compliance reports and certifications to your product profile as you obtain them. Finally, we’ll show the AWS customer’s experience of obtaining access to your product’s security information.

Infor OS provides deep integration capabilities and includes Intelligent Open Network (ION), which is an interoperability and business process management platform designed to integrate applications, processes, people, and data to run your business. Infor ION enables you to easily integrate your Infor and non-Infor enterprise systems, whether they’re on-premises, in the cloud, or both. In this post, we discuss general scenarios and integration patterns while using ION.

Migrating workloads to the cloud is a transformative journey that requires careful planning, expertise, and understanding of an organization’s readiness. AWS Partners have several options to conduct a cloud readiness consulting assessment for their customers, including a cloud readiness assessment which is a fundamental step in assisting customers with their migration to the cloud. Learn how the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework can be used while assessing a business’s readiness to the cloud.