Category: Technical How-to

Protecting AWS account root users with multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a crucial security control, and now you can use CyberArk’s Privileged Access Manager (PAM) to securely manage the AWS account root and authenticate its use with MFA. We’ll review the current MFA features for AWS account root user, provide a step-by-step walkthrough of how to install and configure CyberArk PAM to manage root accounts with MFA, and show how to sign into the AWS root account with CyberArk PAM.

Monitoring and managing cloud-based resources is crucial for maintaining performance, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring the health of your infrastructure. Learn about the integration of Amazon CloudWatch with VMware Cloud on AWS with a focus on monitoring the workload of virtual machines. We’ll elaborate on the benefits of integrating CloudWatch with other AWS services as well as third-party services like ServiceNow ITSM tool and IBM Netcool.

Generative AI and large language models (LLMs) such as AI21 Labs’ Jurassic models are reshaping how we engage with information. This post walks through using the Jurassic-2 (J2) large language model and how to consume the model via an AWS Lambda API endpoint. We’ll also discuss how to make calls to the J2 model via the publicly available Jurassic-2 Python SDK. AI21 Labs is an AWS Partner and leader in generative AI and LLMs, revolutionizing the way people read and write.

The advent of automated infrastructure provisioning and cloud-based remote backup and recovery solutions has empowered organizations to embrace advanced data protection and backup strategies tailored for cloud-native workloads. Explore the architectural design and considerations customers should consider before adopting AWS Backup using private interface VPC endpoints (powered by AWS PrivateLink) to protect workloads running on VMware Cloud on AWS.

Organizations need to be able to carefully define, monitor, and manage who has access to specific pieces of data according to their policies and external regulations. Effective data governance ensures data is consistent and trustworthy without being misused. Learn how Privacera enables data access governance on Amazon Aurora, including tag-based access control policies, and how Privacera can be used to mask columns or filter by row.

Internet of Things (IoT) use cases typically involve an enormous number of connected devices, both currently in existence and anticipated in the future, which will generate an even greater amount of data. The increasing prevalence of microcomputing capabilities in nearly every type of device has led to a fully-connected world. Learn how to use Confluent and AWS to solve device management and data management challenges that may be encountered in IoT use cases.

Learn how to stream security events from Claroty xDome to Amazon Security Lake to centralize your security data for more efficient storage, query, and analysis. This enables customers to quickly analyze multiple years of security data across OT, IIoT, and cloud environments, using their preferred tools for security analytics and building resilient operations by enhancing threat detection and response capabilities.

AWS provides an extensive suite of networking services to simplify the delivery of customer connectivity requirements, and integrating Fortinet SD-WAN with AWS networking services provides flexible, secure, and scalable connectivity to accelerate digital transformation. For existing Fortinet customers, this reduces the time-to-value by leveraging existing infrastructure. Learn how to establish secure, private connectivity to AWS with Fortinet SD-WAN, and review some of the use cases accelerated by this architecture.

Customers expect contact center agents to provide them with guided digital support and collaboration when they fill out an online form or perform complex transactions on the website. Explore a deployment scenario where Amazon Connect, integrated with Salesforce Service Cloud, powers the voice interactions while eGain’s Cobrowse console allows agents to offer cobrowsing capabilities to agents. Get details about the functionality provided by this integrated solution and the deployment steps for setting it up.

Being able to support varying tenant configurations is a common requirement for SaaS providers. Learn how LaunchDarkly creates varied tenant experiences with entitlement flags and how to model entitlements as feature flags, targeted to tiers to give tenants access to specific features. We’ll also dive into ways you can use the LaunchDarkly feature for flagging deployments/releases, doing progressive rollouts, or running experimentation—all important release practices for SaaS providers.