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There is broad acceptance that AI and ML will help improve health outcomes for patients, and make healthcare more affordable. Data Science as a Service (DSaaS) from Change Healthcare is a secure, managed, healthcare data science platform that customers can leverage the embedded datasets and load their own datasets to be linked to deliver transformative and compliant insights. Learn how Change Healthcare built DSaaS to address the needs of practitioners developing AI/ML algorithms.

We are excited to highlight 81 AWS Partners that received new designations in May for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Businesses are faced with ever-increasing complexity of the systems they need to run in order to stay agile and competitive. The complexity can develop over time as new systems are integrated but old ones are not retired sufficiently fast. It can also develop intentionally, such as when a monolith is decomposed into microservices. In this post, learn how to build modern, event-driven serverless applications and how MongoDB Atlas and Realm products complement serverless architectures.

As software release cycles get progressively faster, coordinating database schema changes with application releases becomes more difficult. For some teams, it may require a complete overhaul of processes and perhaps even a change in mindset but it is possible. Tools such as GitLab and Liquibase can be used to automate the deployment of database schema changes. Learn how Blue Sentry has extensive experience using infrastructure as code (IaC) to improve CI/CD processes and to support better outcomes for customers.

Managing a cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple AWS accounts is an important but also complex topic for Well-Architected cloud environments. The superwerker on AWS Quick Start provides an automation of what consultants charged with building a platform and landing zone would build for a customer. As an individual consulting solution, this typically involves a mix of consulting and hands-on click ops, as well as building some automation in the customer’s preferred infrastructure provisioning tooling.

Organizations migrate and modernize mainframes to AWS for agility, cost reduction, and for mitigating mainframe risks. Learn about the key agility attributes needed by mainframe workloads, and explore the evolutionary approach to quickly and incrementally modernize from a mainframe monolith to agile AWS services. In this post, we focus on application and infrastructure agility to change functionality, configuration, or resources quickly and inexpensively.

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, many students and professionals found themselves working from home more than ever before. Universities either deployed new or expanded existing Learning Management Systems like Sakai, and many turned to AWS to deploy their LMS solutions like Sakai in the cloud. Her from AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Silicon Overdrive about the best practices for achieving operational excellence while ensuring optimal scaling when implementing Sakai LMS on AWS.

SaaS transformations are full of unknowns for those who navigate these issues for the first time. The AWS SaaS Factory team has observed many organizations transforming to a SaaS delivery model, and we have witnessed many that succeeded and some who haven’t. Explore five common challenges faced in the Business Planning phase of the SaaS Journey Framework, and dive deep on SaaS transformation pitfalls that are hindering companies’ success.

Bottlerocket OS is designed to be able to run anywhere and has a pre-built variant for Amazon EKS. Learn how to deploy Codefresh Runners on Amazon EKS using Bottlerocket-based nodes to help scale your build environments quickly and benefit from Bottlerocket OS’s hardened security and simplified management. Codefresh is built with speed and scalability in mind so you can run your builds in a fraction of the time and lets you scale concurrent builds to meet these needs.

Capturing, managing, and analyzing costs is an essential part of any SaaS business. Without a firm grasp on the cost profile of your SaaS environment, it will be difficult to assess the tiering and pricing models of your solution. Learn how the Cost Optimization pillar of the AWS Well-Architected SaaS Lens identifies specific best practices that can help you improve the cost profile of a SaaS application. These play a key role in shaping the operational and scaling experience of your SaaS environment.