AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Due to lockdown restrictions, the global COVID-19 pandemic brought an unprecedented challenge to small, eat-in restaurants. Learn how Margarita’s Mexican Restaurant, a family-owned eat-in based in Justin, Texas, teamed up with BizCloud Experts to implement an Amazon Connect contact center solution that transformed restaurant staff into Amazon Connect agents. Within 48 hours, Margarita’s was handling its carry out and delivery business much more efficiently.

When choosing between a SaaS backup and recovery solution versus an on-premises one, the most common question that comes up is about the speed of recovery. Druva’s Phoenix solution is designed to protect on-premises and cloud-based workloads. Learn about a series of data restore tests with Druva Phoenix and learn about the speed of recovery possible from a cloud backup and recovery solution.

HeleCloud combines AWS Secrets Manager and the AWS Systems Manager Run Command into a solution that automatically rotates secrets for databases running on Amazon EC2. In addition to automatically rotating your secrets, it allows you to access them in applications running on Amazon EKS. Learn about the HeleCloud solution and walk through the code snippets and steps required to set up automatic credentials rotation of MS SQL Server running on Amazon EC2.

As databases are often a key component of internet infrastructure, IT departments may be challenged by poor connection management from the application. The Heimdall Proxy helps developers, database administrators, and architects horizontally scale out and optimize connections through connection pooling for Amazon Amazon RDS and Amazon Redshift without any application changes. As a result, you will reduce your database instance size and support higher user counts.

Storage is a foundational component to every technology solution because data is a company’s most strategic asset. To help AWS Partners accelerate their storage transformation journey and meet this critical need for their own customers, we are excited to launch the APN Storage Navigate Track. This track helps partners prepare for the AWS Storage Competency, a designation that highlights AWS Partners’ technical proficiency and proven customer success.

One of the fundamental changes in adopting a SaaS model is moving from a product delivery to a service-oriented mindset. SaaS provides a 24×7 digital channel between you and the end customers. This post looks at how service level agreements (SLAs) aren’t just a measure of availability, but a tool that helps measure if the service is meeting the requirements of the customer-independent of the underlying architecture.

AWS Shield Advanced provides 24×7 access to the AWS DDoS Response Team (DRT) for real-time response to impacting events. For customers that lack the resources to maintain this optimal application security posture, AWS has launched a new Perimeter Protection Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) program that enables AWS Partners to develop and deliver a fully managed Security Operations Center (SOC) for AWS Shield Advanced, AWS WAF, and AWS Firewall Manager.

Although many SQL engines allow tools to query Amazon S3 data, organizations face multiple challenges, including high latency and infrastructure costs. Learn how Dremio empowers analysts and data scientists to analyze data in S3 directly at interactive speed, without having to physically copy data into other systems or create extracts, cubes, and/or aggregation tables. Dremio’s unique architecture enables faster and more reliable query performance than traditional SQL engines.

The growth of AI in a wide range of applications demands more purpose-built processors to provide scalable levels of performance, flexibility, and efficiency. The LG AIoT board helps customers accelerate their computer vision and machine learning journey using AWS. Learn how to build a simple AI-enabled application with AWS IoT Greengrass that takes advantage of the hardware AI acceleration on the LG AIoT board. AWS IoT Greengrass extends AWS on your device and offers the cloud programming model and tools at the edge.

Many oil & gas operators need near-instant access to their geoscience data. Unfortunately, most subsurface applications provide only a limited, fragmented view of data. INT’s data visualization platform IVAAP uses OSDU on AWS to enable users who want to optimize this and other workflows. The IVAAP platform offers a single point of access to search, interact with, analyze, and visualize multiple petrotechnical data sources in a single web-based application.