Category: Technical How-to

The Amazon Athena web-based query editor enables data consumers to author and run SQL queries on data sources that are registered with the AWS Glue Data Catalog and other data sources such as Amazon S3. This post describes the setup to provide federated access with OneLogin as the identity provider to securely access, author, and run queries in the Athena web-based editor via the AWS console, without the need for users to install a JDBC driver or run a SQL client on their machines.

Enterprises require considerable computational resources and storage capacity to successfully accomplish simulation tasks. An increasing number of simulations and calculations necessitate the real-time processing of substantial volumes of information, particularly in the CAE and CFD industries. Learn how to use the Fastone Compute Cloud-Enterprise Edition (Fastone FCC-E) to more efficiently handle large-scale CAE/CFD computations and simulations, while reliably leveraging AWS resources.

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.

Amazon API Gateway is a solution for orchestrating the resources for creating, deploying, and managing APIs at scale. Learn how SmartBear’s SwaggerHub provides a single source of truth for API documentation, and helps teams achieve consistency in their documentation and implementation patterns across a portfolio of APIs. In this post, we show how SwaggerHub pairs with Amazon API Gateway to provide customers with a holistic API solution.

Managing an Apache Kafka deployment can be complex and resource intensive, often requiring additional support. Integrating Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) and CockroachDB in your Kafka deployment enables a plethora of use cases, including real-time analytics, event-driven microservices such as inventory management, and the ability to archive data for audit logging. This post offers a step-by-step guide to integrate Amazon MSK within the CockroachDB platform.

AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) can save time while developing infrastructure as code in your preferred language, such as JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python. This post provides reference framework for customers which can save time implementing GitLab Pipelines using AWS CDK for a secured and reliable deployment experience across their teams. Many organizations use GitLab as a CI/CD platform for their cloud infrastructure and application deployments on AWS.

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.

The integration of geospatial data into the broader business intelligence and decision-making process is referred to as location intelligence. On AWS, you can use the Snowflake Data Cloud to integrate fragmented data, discover and securely share data, and execute diverse analytic workloads. This post shows how you can enrich your existing Snowflake data with location-based insights using Amazon Location Service for location intelligence workloads.

This post showcases a way to filter and stream logs from centralized Amazon S3 logging buckets to Splunk using a push mechanism leveraging AWS Lambda. The push mechanism offers benefits such as lower operational overhead, lower costs, and automated scaling. We’ll provide instructions and a sample Lambda code that filters virtual private cloud (VPC) flow logs with “action” flag set to “REJECT” and pushes it to Splunk via a Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC) endpoint.

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.