AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog

Businesses that adopt the cloud without transforming their operation model may not realize the full benefits. IT organizations need to transform traditional workloads and operation methods to be native dwellers of the public cloud. This does not come without cost and effort, however, and it must be balanced with the overall total cost of ownership and available resources. Learn about DXC Technology’s approach to cloud operation excellence through a Cloud Automated Operation Model.

An important design consideration for cloud-based client VPN service architectures is the choice of authentication mechanism to use for connecting remote users to VPN services. Cisco ASAv Remote Access VPN integrates with Cisco Duo to add multi-factor authentication to ASAv AnyConnect VPN connections. Cisco is an AWS ISV Partner that helps customers optimize their cloud strategy by bringing together networking, security, analytics, and management.

Venerable needed to modernize a core business application for managing agent commissions, so they engaged AWS ISV Partner Heirloom Computing and AWS Premier Consulting Partner Cognizant. Learn how Venerable’s Agent Management System (AMS) application was replatformed into a cloud-native Java application running successfully on AWS, through a process known as automated refactoring using the Heirloom product suite.

Data security has always been an important consideration for organizations when complying with data protection regulations. Protegrity, an AWS ISV Partner and global leader in data security, has released a serverless User Defined Function (UDF) that adds external data tokenization capabilities to the Amazon Athena platform. Learn how customers can use the Protection Athena Protector UDF to tokenize or detokenize data at scale.

Nautilus recognized the value of cloud infrastructure and had been migrating their on-premises server infrastructure to AWS for some time. In 2020, Nautilus set a vision for transforming its mission-critical ecommerce transaction gateway to take full advantage of a cloud-native architecture. They began their journey by partnering with Axian, an AWS Select Consulting Partner, and leveraged Axian’s significant experience with AWS to set an ambitious vision for a more scalable, resilient architecture.

Asset integrity management is a key activity for energy companies, and with recent advances in the field of machine learning, specifically computer vision, there are digital technologies that can enhance customers’ existing workflows and help plan preventative work. Learn how Wipro’s visual inspection and integrity management solution, InspectAI, can help customers deploy a cloud-based solution and transform their inspection process on AWS.

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is responsible for the CIS Controls and CIS Benchmarks, which are globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. The implementation of these can help harden systems through various means, whether it be disabling unnecessary ports or eliminating unneeded services. Purchasing a pre-hardened image is a great option, especially since you are ensured compliance with the CIS Benchmark, and deploying it would not require much maintenance on your end.

VMware Site Recovery and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery provide robust yet simple methods within the disaster recovery plans to map existing production networks onto the appropriate DR networks configured in VMware Cloud on AWS. This provides a documented and orchestrated capability to bring up application virtual machines in the SDDC. It also provides the appropriate connectivity to help your business test DR capabilities or provide business continuity following unplanned outages.

We are excited to highlight 65 AWS Partners that received new designations in June 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.

To manage complexities across the various phases of an enterprise’s cloud journey, Wipro has developed a solution called Cloud Application Risk Governance (CARG). This solution is powered by Wipro’s Common Cloud Controls Framework (C3F) that addresses customers’ needs and concerns along their cloud security journey. It’s a single pane of glass solution that delivers a holistic risk and threat view, and provides an automated compliance adherence view of AWS-based business applications.