AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Category: Thought Leadership

Embracing FinOps to Maximize Cloud Value and Control Costs with the Deloitte FinOps Framework

Embracing cloud FinOps presents organizations with a solution to drive the right governance model and align business and engineering teams to accelerate business value. Deloitte is a FinOps Certified Service Provider and its services help customers examine and plan for cloud consumption and monitor costs to minimize cloud-spend waste. By implementing the Deloitte FinOps framework, organizations gain a holistic understanding of their cloud usage and costs to help them make data-driven decisions.

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Improving System Resilience and Observability: Chaos Engineering with AWS FIS and AWS DLT

By automating performance testing and including chaos testing, organizations can identify failure scenarios in systems before they develop and cause downtime. Learn how Distributed Load Testing on AWS (DLT) automates performance testing at scale, and how AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) performs controlled chaos engineering experiments on AWS resources. By combining the power of AWS FIS and DLT, organizations can perform comprehensive resilience testing and continuously validate their systems.

Understanding and Monitoring Embeddings in Amazon SageMaker with WhyLabs AI Observatory Platform

With the rise of large language models, natural language processing, and generative AI models, embeddings are becoming a critical piece of data in more machine learning use cases. In this post, explore different ways embeddings are used in machine learning and where problems can show up that impact your ML models, and how you can use WhyLabs to identify those problems and create monitors to avoid them showing up again in the future.

Data Ingestion in a Multi-Tenant SaaS Environment Using AWS Services

AWS experts break down how you can build a multi-tenant data ingestion and processing engine using AWS services. We examine each component of this data pipeline and examine some of the key considerations that can influence how you approach designing a SaaS multi-tenant data ingestion process. We also explore how multi-tenant streaming data can be ingested, transformed, and stored using AWS services while ensuring there are constructs built in to the pipeline to ensure secure processing of the data.

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Streamlining Prior Authorization with Treatline’s Generative AI Platform for Healthcare and Insurance Providers

Prior authorization is an insurance review process used by healthcare providers to confirm medical coverage with health insurance companies. Learn how Neurons Lab collaborated with Treatline on its platform to streamline the highly manual prior authorization process using intelligent document processing (IDP) and generative AI. Neurons Lab is an innovative technology company specializing in AI/ML and software development.

Develop a Cost-Aware Culture for Optimized and Efficient SaaS Growth

Explore how you can develop a cost-aware culture incorporating cost consideration in product development, and make informed decisions that align with both product goals and cost optimization objectives. As a SaaS leader, you can gain sustainable growth, maximize resource efficiency, and drive long-term financial success by developing a cost-aware culture. Start rethinking how you manage your cost and collaborate with AWS and the AWS Partner community to grow your SaaS business.

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Why AWS Customers Choose to Procure Software Through Channel Partners in AWS Marketplace

With AWS Marketplace, customers can leverage preferred Channel Partners to provide added value, such as professional services, implementation support, financing, and more. This post shares some of the benefits seen by AWS customers when using AWS Marketplace as their procurement vehicle, and how skilled Channel Partners are adding additional value to drive procurement success. The expertise of Channel Partners helps maximize cost savings, simplify procurement, and accelerate innovation through added value.

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Updating AWS CloudFormation Stacks Without Service Disruption to Support Rapid Business Innovation

Developers can rely on AWS CloudFormation to update or add new resources to an application, as CloudFormation provides two methods for updating the stack: direct update or change set. Learn how to update the value and add new resources to your running Amazon RDS deployment, and explore architecture diagrams to help you see how the system behaves when you apply the changes via CloudFormation template.

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Setting Up OpenID Connect with GitLab CI/CD to Provide Secure Access to Environments in AWS Accounts

When building out a CI/CD pipeline, there are ways to proactively harden your pipelines when they need to access environments in AWS accounts. Given that your pipeline will have create and destroy access to critical components of your AWS-based environments, it’s important to evaluate how GitLab Runner authenticates and authorizes for access to your AWS accounts. Learn how the new OpenID Connect (OIDC) for GitLab CI/CD jobs can help you access AWS services using GitLab.

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Avahi Migrates MasterWorks’ Machine Learning App to AWS to Lower Cost and Speed Up Data Modeling

Migrating to a new hosting provider to save costs presents an opportunity to fine-tune application performance and the DevOps processes supporting a company’s applications. This was the case for MasterWorks, which is based near Seattle and helps move the hearts and minds of people to act for Christian ministries across America. Learn how Avahi Technologies and AWS collaborated to help MasterWorks migrate an application that uses machine learning models from a SaaS provider to AWS.