AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Learn how to simplify global network architecture using AWS Transit Gateway with Aruba SD-WAN branch-to-cloud connectivity, and explore how Aruba’s customers have leveraged the benefits of AWS Transit Gateway at a global scale. Aruba, a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is a global leader in secure, intelligent edge-to-cloud networking solutions that uses a cloud-native approach to help customers with all aspects of wired, wireless LAN, and wide area networking (WAN).

Throughout re:Invent, theCUBE provided live and on-demand insights into many facets of a rapidly evolving cloud landscape that’s redefining how business and society works. Don’t miss theCUBE’s impactful and engaging discussions with AWS Partners and subject matter experts by visiting the AWS Partner playlist on YouTube. In this post, we highlight several AWS Partner interviews with theCUBE from re:Invent, including Intel, VMware, and Accenture.

Mainframe applications have been running the most mission-critical workloads in many large enterprises for decades. It’s common for them to store, compute, and transfer terabytes of data in day-to-day processing. Modernization projects can fail or become subtly complex in execution for a variety of reasons. Learn how tools and accelerators from Infosys are helping data migration from mainframe systems overcome many technical challenges.

Many customers are focused on building cost-optimized solutions as they expand on AWS to grow their success. In recognizing that every customer can be in a different phase of their cloud adoption, it’s important to understand the following use cases: expanding from on-premises data centers to AWS; shifting away from on-premises to AWS; and starting out on AWS to serve users globally. This post explores how Citrix ADC can help customers in each use case.

Baffle Data Protection Services (DPS) provides a data-centric protection layer allowing customers to tokenize, encrypt, and mask data in Amazon RDS at the column or row level, without any application code modifications while supporting a BYOK or HYOK model. Review the architecture for Baffle DPS, and walk through how to launch and test Baffle DPS from an AWS CloudFormation template with Amazon RDS databases to encrypt data at the column level.

As COVID-19 cases continue to surge, institutions are working tirelessly to ensure they are prepared. Contact tracing is a complex problem to solve, and CareBand’s SafeTrack is a solution. This post covers how to get started partnering with CareBand’s technology and building a solution using AWS that collects data from SafeTrack wearables and integrates that with AWS IoT. The solution will generate a report of all the individuals who have been exposed to a detected case of COVID-19.

The size and complexity of an initial migration can be complicated for many enterprises. Learn how to migrate (lift and shift) multiple workloads at speed using CloudEndure Migration, and how Rackspace can help guide this migration. Rackspace has created reusable design artifacts together with automation to describe and deploy a collection of AWS services capable of hosting CloudEndure Migration. This solution provides full IP connectivity between your data center and AWS.

From SaaS to ISVs, here’s a look at the most popular APN Blog posts in 2020. Our goal with this blog is to share timely and relevant news, technical solutions, partner success stories, and more from Amazon Web Services and the AWS Partner Network (APN) specifically. The APN is the global partner program for AWS and helps tens of thousands of organizations across the world build, market, and sell their AWS-based offerings.

AWS customers regularly use the “Find an AWS Partner” tool to discover organizations that can help them design, migrate, manage, and optimize workloads on Amazon Web Services. With a refreshed discovery experience, it’s even easier to find AWS Partners with validated qualifications for a variety of use cases. The new experience is also available in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Spanish, and customers can search for AWS Partners by industry, use case, services, and solution offerings.

Follow along as Agilisium provides an early look at Amazon Redshift’s ra3.4xlarge instance type (RA3). This post details the result of various tests comparing the performance and cost for the RA3 and DS2 instance types. It will help AWS customers make an informed decision on choosing the instance type best suited to their data storage and compute needs. As a result of choosing the appropriate instance, your applications can perform better while also optimizing costs.