AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Category: Thought Leadership

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How AWS IoT Greengrass and AWS Lambda Allow Legacy Hardware to be Cloud-Enabled

Much of the hardware used on the factory floor today has been in place for many years, and managing these devices from the internet often requires replacement of the hardware. Utilizing AWS IoT Greengrass and AWS Lambda functions allow legacy hardware to be maintained, while providing full internet connectivity and management. This post shows how 42Q, an AWS Industrial Software Competency Partner, uses AWS IoT Greengrass to allow legacy label printers to be cloud-enabled.

Best Practices from OST for Optimizing IoT Cloud Platform Costs and Performance on AWS

When working with an IoT solution and expertly crafted architecture, new features can be implemented in record time, giving your product a real competitive edge. IoT platform managers continually strive to update and evolve platforms, and the largest pain point is cost. Open Systems Technologies (OST) shares best practices to get your IoT solution running efficiently without sacrificing opportunities for new growth.

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Accelerate Your SaaS Journey with Help from AWS SaaS Competency Partners

While SaaS remains a huge growth driver and provides benefits to end customers and software providers, the transition to this model can be challenging as technology and operations take on new responsibilities in an “as-a-service” environment. To be successful, organizations need to rethink every dimension of how they build, sell, manage, support, and operate their solution. Learn how to accelerate your SaaS journey with help from AWS SaaS Competency Partners.

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Using VMware VCDR and NetApp CVO to Meet Your Disaster Recovery Needs

While organizations are evaluating the benefits of moving to the cloud for their primary needs, a sudden need for additional investments into the disaster recovery (DR) site upgrade can add an additional burden on the IT budget and slow down working on new business opportunities. This post provides a solution that can help organizations migrate their DR site to AWS with minimal changes to their applications, leveraging VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (VCDR) and a variety of AWS services.

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How Wipro-Nuage Helps Silicon Companies Migrate Design Workloads to AWS Cost Efficiently

Silicon design companies require huge compute and storage needs to run their electronic design automation (EDA) workloads. Learn about the business and process challenges of silicon design companies and how Nuage, Wipro’s smart orchestrator solution built on AWS, can help accelerate silicon design and time to market. Nuage can do this through prediction and optimization by leveraging the near infinite compute, storage, and other resources available on AWS.

AWS Data Transfer Charges for Server and Serverless Architectures

To help enterprise clients increase their cloud initiatives, Sourced Group has developed a Serverless Adoption Programme for enterprises. In this post, we provide an updated version of server-focused data transfer costs that others have created and shared in the past. Sourced Group also created an entirely new visual for its own training materials that is focused on the AWS data transfer costs relevant to serverless architectures.

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Capgemini Simplifies the Letter of Credit Process with Amazon Managed Blockchain

In global trade, a letter of credit (LC) is a commonly used financial instrument that ensures the payment of goods and services while reducing risks during transactions. The traditional LC process includes many challenges such as overdue payments, data breach risks, and fraudulent activities. Learn how Capgemini’s letter of credit solution simplifies and secures the LC issuance process through digitization and building “trust networks.”

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Implementing a Multi-Tenant MLaaS Build Environment with Amazon SageMaker Pipelines

Organizations hosting customer-specific machine learning models on AWS have unique isolation and performance requirements and require a solution that provides a scalable, high-performance, and feature-rich ML platform. Learn how Amazon SageMaker Pipelines helps you to pre-process data, build, train, tune, and register ML models in SaaS applications. We’ll focus on best practices for building tenant-specific ML models with particular focus on tenant isolation and cost attribution.

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Meeting Bank-Grade Requirements for Real-Time and Resilient Core Banking with Finxact on AWS

Most banks are still running legacy core systems developed over 30 years ago for mainframe computing. These software applications pre-dated the internet and were monolithic by design. Finxact is an AWS Partner that was begun five years ago by a team of engineers with deep experience in the design of core banking systems. Its mission was to couple this domain expertise with the most modern cloud-based technologies and programming languages to produce a core platform for the modern era of banking.

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Mission Cloud Services’s Amber Runnels: Celebrating International Women’s Day and Breaking the Bias

As we celebrate International Women’s Day in 2022, we’re honored to share perspectives from female technical leaders from our global AWS Partner Ambassadors community who #BreakTheBias. Hear from Amber Runnels, an AWS Ambassador and Sr. Big Data Architect at Mission Cloud Services. Amber has been helping customers to optimize workloads in the AWS data ecosystem to achieve a scalable, performant, and cost-effective architecture.