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Understand and Optimize AWS Data Transfer Charges for Splunk Cloud on AWS Ingestion
Data transfer cost is a key component to consider when selecting your strategy to get data into Splunk Cloud on AWS. Customers using Splunk Cloud on AWS for their security, operational, and observability use cases may manage large volumes of data. Having a thorough understanding of AWS data transfer charges can help them optimize their architectures and costs. This post discusses the data transfer costs for five of the most common Splunk use cases.
Provide Enhanced Security for Web Servers in VMware Cloud on AWS Using AWS WAF
As you consider migrating to VMware Cloud on AWS or have already done so, you could have the requirement to protect web servers residing in a vSphere environment on the AWS global infrastructure. To provide one aspect of security for these workloads, you can leverage the AWS WAF, a web application firewall that helps protect your apps or APIs against common web exploits and bots. AWS WAF provides scanning of designated HTTP/HTTPS traffic to protect against various attacks.
How the TCS Serverless .NET Solution Simplifies .NET Application Deployment on AWS
Developing and deploying .NET applications on AWS helps organizations achieve the scale and agility offered by cloud computing. The TCS Serverless .NET deployment solution uses the AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) and simplifies deployment, scalability, and maintenance of .NET applications while providing increased efficiencies and easy adoption of the .NET solutions on AWS. Learn about the solution’s overview, architecture, key principles, and benefits using a case study from a large financial services company.
Securely Using External ID for Accessing AWS Accounts Owned by Others
It’s often required for a partner solution running on Amazon Web Services to access AWS accounts owned by their customers (third-party AWS accounts). This kind of access is known as cross-account access. In such scenarios, a cross-account AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role with external ID should be used. Explore the best practices for using external ID to avoid the confused deputy problem it is designed to solve.
AdaptX Uses AWS Serverless to Modernize Clinical Data Ingestion
AdaptX clinical management software uses electronic medical records (EMRs) to derive insights—enabling providers and clinical leaders to efficiently leverage real-world data to transform patient care. This post explores how AdaptX built a modern data architecture using Amazon Athena, AWS Lambda, and AWS Step Functions to automate the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) of clinical data from provider EMR systems. Results included improved accuracy, scalability, and a better end-customer experience.
Running a Serverless Malware Scanner at Scale Using AWS Lambda and AWS Step Functions
Explore a solution Contino built for a client to automate security scanning on software packages. This allowed developers to continue building, without added friction, and helped security teams be confident that vulnerabilities are discovered early and didn’t make their way to production. Learn about the context Contino was working with and the approach it took, and the technical challenges faced. After reading this post, you’ll understand how to develop a similar solution for your organization and some pitfalls to avoid.
Accelerate FinTech Innovation and Streamline CloudOps with AWS and ChaosSearch
To stay ahead in a highly competitive market, FinTechs face multiple challenges, especially around maintaining development agility, operational excellence, and a strong security posture. This post explores how the ChaosSearch data platform combines the industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance provided by Amazon S3 with revolutionary technology to help FinTechs address critical pain points and overcome core operational challenges.
Simplified Help Desk and Endpoint Management with Track-It! on AWS
The Track-It! help desk and endpoint management system helps an organization track all IT tasks and end-user issues and requests in one place. The new AWS Quick Start for Track-It! help desk software by BMC Software solves this problem by simplifying the setup, configuration, and ongoing management of the system. It provides users an easy to implement, secure, globally accessible help desk and endpoint management system in a fraction of the time and cost of doing it yourself.
Self-Service Platform for Standardized Amazon EKS Deployments Across the Organization
AWS provides a secure, reliable, and scalable environment for customers to run their container workloads. Customers running containers on premises are looking to move to AWS to gain agility benefits and reduce technical debt of managing their own infrastructure. Learn how Tech Mahindra transitioned a customer from an on-premises self-managed Kubernetes environment to a managed Amazon EKS platform with centralized self-service deployment options using AWS Service Catalog.
Comparing Oracle Exadata Database Performance with Amazon RDS for Oracle
As organizations run mission-critical databases on Oracle Exadata, businesses are increasingly looking for proof points of like-to-like performance of these databases on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This post explores how Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) supported a UK-based utility provider’s digitalization journey by comparing performance of their on-premises Oracle Exadata database with Amazon RDS for Oracle.