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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.

Despite the investments and commitment from leadership, many organizations are yet to realize the full potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). How can data science and analytics teams tame complexity and live up to the expectations placed on them? MLOps provides some answers. Hear from AWS Premier Consulting Partner Reply how you can “glue” the various components of MLOps together to build an MLOps solution using AWS managed services.

With the new Amazon RDS Ready for Business Applications category, part of the AWS Service Ready Program, customers can now find business application products that follow AWS security, availability, reliability, performance, and other architecture best practices while integrating with Amazon RDS. Amazon RDS Ready business applications are deployed within a customer’s account or provided as SaaS deployed in AWS Partners’ accounts. Learn more about Amazon RDS Ready Ready Partners!

Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use cloud contact center platform that helps enterprises provide superior customer service at a lower cost. TCS has built an adapter that can pick up the customer queries from social messenger channels and bring them into the web chat channel of Amazon Connect. This post describes the high-level architecture of the TCS solution, potential benefits, and ways to extend the solution to leverage other AWS services.

From pre-seed to IPO, the world’s most innovative startups build on AWS. This month, we’re excited to show our support through the next AWS Startup Showcase, a virtual AWS Loft-style event we’re hosting in partnership with theCUBE. The event is geared towards an audience of business decision makers, developers, and IT professionals. It features some of the most innovative companies from the APN Global Startup Program showcasing their latest offerings and innovations in AI, security, and life sciences.

When you use Amazon S3 to store corporate data and host websites, you need additional logging to monitor access to your data and the performance of your applications. An effective logging solution enhances security and improves detection of security incidents. Learn how to use the Elastic Beats to extract logs stored in S3 buckets that can be indexed, analyzed, and visualized with the Elastic Stack. Elastic is an AWS ISV Partner that helps you find information, gain insights, and protect your data when you run on AWS.