Category: Technical How-to

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.

Developing seamless integration between frontend applications and backend services is a common challenge in software development. By combining AWS AppSync with AWS Amplify, developers can create a powerful and integrated frontend client that enhances this synergy by providing essential features such as security, location services, data management, and caching. In this post, we showcase the integration of AWS Amplify client libraries with AppSync Merged API.

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) programs often require extensive custom controls that address a range of compliance standards and internal governance objectives. AWS Audit Manager helps to continuously audit cloud usage to simplify risk assessment and compliance with regulation and industry standards. Learn how MetricStream has collaborated with AWS to facilitate the controls and evidence collection hand-off between AWS Audit Manager and MetricStream CyberGRC.

Databricks fleet instances were developed for large Databricks workloads on AWS to improve cluster provisioning process, increase Amazon EC2 Spot utilization, and drive overall cost optimization. Learn how customers can launch clusters using Spot instances using diversified node types. This increases a cluster’s chances of getting EC2 Spot instances which in turn further reduces costs. Maximizing availability and EC2 Spot utilization is key to running cost-optimized Databricks workloads on AWS.

Enterprises typically manage sets of Amazon EKS clusters as a fleet, and depending on how the enterprise is structured and operates the fleet could consist of groups of EKS clusters for development, test, and production. Explore the key features of fleet operations and how Automated Fleet Operations from Rafay Systems can help customers improve operational efficiency, governance, and high availability of EKS clusters.

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.