Category: Technical How-to

Customers want an easier way to gather operational insights across their environments, including monitoring who has made changes to resources and when. Tata Consulting Services (TCS) developed a cloud management and orchestration platform called TCS Cloud Exponence that provides resource maintenance, patching, perimeter monitoring, vulnerability protection, observability, and compliance auditing. TCS leveraged AWS CloudTrail Lake to support the monitoring and compliance auditing capabilities.

Modern enterprise customers use AWS Marketplace datasets along with their business and operational data to create meaningful and deeper insights to improve their customer experience. Learn how to consume datasets from AWS Data Exchange to transform and store data in Databricks Lakehouse Platform using Delta Live Tables (DLT) and visualize it in Amazon QuickSight. DLT is a framework for building reliable, maintainable, and testable data processing pipelines.

With the advent of high-speed 5G networks, enterprises have sought to deliver low-latency experiences across industrial Internet of Things IoT (IIoT), media and entertainment, automotive, and beyond. At the core of these low latency experiences is data. This post builds on an earlier demonstration of MongoDB Realm on AWS Wavelength by amplifying the existing architecture with new features, and shows how to use the AWS Load Balancer Controller to deploy an Application Load Balancer in front of the database.

Managing and securing account access can feel like navigating a complex landmine of risk. Learn how to take a risk score calculated by Transmit Security and use it as an input to an authorization decision made by Amazon Verified Permissions, which delivers a pre-built system that simplifies policy-based access control and is flexible enough to address the most advanced authorization requirements for custom applications. With granular policies, it’s highly effective for determining who has access to what.

SaaS applications and services secure access to their resources by adding logic to make decisions when handling a user request. These decisions can be based on user roles and attributes, request context, and more. In this post, learn how CyberArk Identity works seamlessly as the identity provider with Amazon Verified Permissions. A managed authorization service, Amazon Verified Permissions provides a scalable, fine-grained permissions management and authorization service for custom apps.

Achieving a zero-trust architecture is a top priority for many organizations, and a big part is externalizing authorization to ensure least privilege access for all applications. Amazon Verified Permissions is a fine-grained authorization service for developers building custom applications. Learn how Strata Identity’s Maverics Identity Orchestration platform allows you to simplify cloud migration and modernization projects by augmenting your datasets to ensure comprehensive policy enforcement.

With Amazon Redshift Serverless, users can run and scale analytics workloads seamlessly, paying only for the compute and storage resources they consume. Businesses often have a need to use change data capture (CDC) to quickly and easily load incremental data to data warehouses. Learn how to load data easily into Amazon Redshift Serverless using Matillion Data Loader, and see an example of CDC loading from PostgreSQL to Amazon Redshift Serverless as the destination.

Healthcare organizations and software providers that build and manage healthcare workloads must formulate the appropriate strategies to establish an effective security and compliance program. Walk through best practices for AWS customers to build, monitor, and maintain a robust HIPAA security program across AWS cloud environments, and learn how to automate compliance efforts by leveraging AWS-native services alongside Dash ComplyOps.

CockroachDB is a cloud-native, distributed SQL database designed for applications with data-intensive workloads. AWS Database Migration Service is a managed migration and replication service that helps move database and analytics workloads to AWS quickly, securely, and with minimal downtime and zero data loss. Learn how AWS DMS can help migrate data to CockroachDB, and walk through an example migration.

TiDB is an advanced, open source, distributed SQL database with elastic scaling, efficient query processing for mixed workloads, and always-on performance. With AWS PrivateLink, customers can connect their VPC to TiDB Cloud services on AWS as if they were in their own VPCs, without requiring the extra security measure associated with VPC peering. Learn how to use AWS PrivateLink to build trusted and secure private connectivity between your data and TiDB Cloud.