Category: Technical How-to

Darwinbox wanted to reduce the time to infer resumes against job descriptions using PyTorch models. AWS Premier Partner Minfy helped them leverage Amazon SageMaker and AWS Inferentia to compile models with Neuron SDK and deploy them, achieving 87% faster inference without retraining. Key steps were compiling models with the Neuron SDK, extending SageMaker containers, using Inference Recommender to optimize configurations, and sending requests in mini-batches.

Crayon developed an intelligent decision support system for Savills Vietnam using AWS which ingests daily news in Vietnamese, translates to English with Amazon Translate, and categorizes articles using Amazon Comprehend. An intelligent search engine built on Amazon Kendra allows users to search in natural language and receive relevant excerpts or answers. With this tool, Savills can stay current on real estate news and trends to identify new opportunities. Optional dashboards provide analytics.

As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, real-time threat detection is critical for robust cloud security. AWS Partner Cloudanix leverages cloud infrastructure logs and machine learning to provide holistic, agentless monitoring across AWS environments. By analyzing activities and APIs in real-time, Cloudanix identifies threats and anomalies, alerts security teams, and recommends remediation steps. This enables rapid incident response, proactive security measures, and comprehensive visibility.

AWS Partner Neurons Lab provides a step-by-step guide to deploy containerized applications on AWS using GitHub Actions, AWS CDK, and other key services. Neurons Lab, with expertise across data science, cloud, and business strategy, solves complex AI challenges and accelerates migration journeys for organizations seeking to modernize through AI integration on AWS. By leveraging AWS CDK constructs to define infrastructure as code, this reusable solution streamlines infrastructure setup and 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.

SAP customers are integrating non-SAP applications and machine learning models to improve business strategies. Solutions like Syntax CxLink and Amazon Forecast can connect SAP systems to AWS services to provide insights for supply-demand planning, sales, and automation requirements. This post shows how Syntax CxLink transfers SAP data like sales orders and inventory transactions to Amazon Forecast, which uses algorithms to create highly accurate demand forecasts.

Kubernetes security is often approached in a fragmented way, separating build time, runtime, and infrastructure security. An interconnected security approach is essential, acknowledging relationships between build, runtime, and infrastructure. Cloudanix enables this through end-to-end integration, from build time image scanning to runtime threat monitoring, strengthening security posture by reducing attack surface, enhancing compliance, and empowering swift response.

Kubecost provides granular visibility into Kubernetes cluster costs on AWS, enabling easy comparison with AWS Cost Explorer. This post guides users through validating Kubecost cost data against AWS billing, troubleshooting discrepancies, and ensuring complete resource discovery. It covers aggregating costs in Kubecost dashboards, filtering to compare specific assets, reconciling adjusted pricing, and using CSV exports for programmatic validation.

Fivetran and Amazon Redshift Serverless help companies integrate data from various sources into a centralized data warehouse. This allows for automated data movement, transformation, and scalability without infrastructure management. Together, Amazon Redshift Serverless and Fivetran offer connectors to over 250 data sources and reliable analytics so organizations can make better data-driven decisions.

For SAP customers aiming to cut costs, a popular option is replatforming to the AWS cloud, which can be done seamlessly using various migration tools and methodologies. Customers can migrate SAP HANA from on-premises environments to AWS using the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. This solution offers a fast, user-friendly migration with expert guidance along the way. Red Hat provides added security, reporting, analytics, and technical support to help organizations scale their automation programs.