Category: Thought Leadership

Since the release of Amazon EC2 Mac instances, AWS customers have been able to access on-demand Apple Mac devices in the AWS Cloud. In collaboration with Jamf, an AWS Partner and leader in Apple device management, AWS has developed integration between the Amazon EC2 Mac instances and Jamf Pro to simplify managing, securing, and configuring EC2 Mac instances. Learn how to configure AWS and Jamf accounts to automatically enroll EC2 Mac into Jamf Pro EC2 Mac instances when they are launched.

Appian is a low-code software development platform for building applications and business processes with little to no coding, and Appian Government Cloud (AGC) accelerates timelines to go live by ensuring mission-critical applications’ underlying infrastructure and backend processes are secure. With AGC, learn how mission owners at the U.S Department of Defense can place their focus on the missions at hand, with the confidence their cloud workloads will be managed properly.

AWS and its backup partners continue to innovate to meet customer needs, and one example is the Amazon EBS direct APIs. Learn more about these APIs and how they transformed the Clumio solution. This post discusses issues the EBS direct APIs were created to solve and how Clumio used them to improve its cloud backup solution. We’ll show how Clumio and the EBS direct APIs work together to provide a powerful solution to solve customer data protection challenges.

Every SaaS architecture must introduce mechanisms and policies that prevent noisy neighbor conditions. Getting these policies right is essential to building a robust SaaS solution that delivers a consistent experience to customers. This post looks at the different strategies that can be used to introduce the throttles (transaction rate) and quotas (transaction volume) that manage each tenant’s activity, exploring the various AWS services that can be used to bring these concepts to life.

VMware Cloud on AWS allows customers to migrate their workloads faster without having to refactor or change any application code or logic. Many MSPs have built highly successful businesses on VMware Cloud Director-powered clouds running in their own data centers. These MSPs have earned trust with their customers over many years as trusted advisors and partners. Explore some of the challenges MSPs face and how using multi tenancy with VMware Cloud Director Service can help address them.

As direct to customer (D2C) gains popularity among retailers, there’s an increasing need to mix online and offline experiences to improve customer engagements and sentiment. One such popular channel is popup stores. This post explores a Capgemini solution that uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help retailers engage with customers in a smart way. The solution leverages deep learning to enhance the customer experience through gamification and provides key insights and marketing leads to retailers.

From a single pane of glass in Komprise, you can gain visibility across your data silos, tag files with granular metadata to support easier search for precise data sets, and create intelligent policies to migrate infrequently used data to economical storage targets and/or leverage cloud-based AI/ML services. Walk through the process of using Komprise with Amazon Macie, a fully managed data security and data privacy service that uses machine learning and pattern matching to discover sensitive content such as PII.

This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the AWS Partner Network (APN). To celebrate this important milestone, we’re launching a series of partner transformation stories—“10 Years of Success”—highlighting some of our AWS Partners who have been “all in” and grown with us over the past decade. Up next in our Q&A-style series is Sumo Logic, an AWS Partner with a leading cloud-based machine data analytics SaaS platform designed to deliver reliable and secure cloud-native applications.

Data transfer cost is a key component to consider when selecting your strategy to get data into Splunk Cloud on AWS. Customers using Splunk Cloud on AWS for their security, operational, and observability use cases may manage large volumes of data. Having a thorough understanding of AWS data transfer charges can help them optimize their architectures and costs. This post discusses the data transfer costs for five of the most common Splunk use cases.

SAP systems need a capable document management solution. Syntax, an SAP Gold Partner and AWS Premier Tier Services Partner, has focused on customer needs to develop a cloud-native, SAP-certified solution to meet data and document modernization requirements through its CxLink product portfolio. Explore the Syntax CxLink Documents solution and the process of how to handle a large number of documents from SAP applications and storing them directly on Amazon S3.