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The notion of shared responsibility has become very popular in the public cloud, and rightly so. This post focuses on helping organizations achieve their part of shared responsibility—security in the cloud. We start by introducing three areas of responsibility—configuration, access, and data—and then illustrate how tools from AWS Security Competency Partner Zscaler can address security and compliance issues in each of these areas.

Most financial institutions are at different stages of their cloud journey. Many are challenged with delivering new and enhanced services, providing services faster, and driving operational efficiencies while facing increasingly competitive markets. Learn how Avaloq has laid a good foundation to help businesses ease the journey of testing and integrating new solutions by managing the complexities across various phases utilizing Avaloq’s sandbox solution powered by AWS.

It can be difficult to gain security insights into your cloud infrastructure, especially as architectures grow to encompass multiple availability zones, regions, and clouds. Aviatrix Systems is uniquely positioned to provide deep insights into network traffic that can augment AWS-native security capabilities. In this post, we detail new capabilities that were recently added to the Aviatrix Secure Network Platform—ThreatIQ and ThreatGuard.

Learn about a multi-regional first-line of support solution Chaos Gears put together using a serverless application running AWS Lambda under the baton of AWS Step Functions to relieve a customer’s engineers from some of their operational burdens. The approach described in this post can be adapted to serve other needs or cover different cases, as AWS Step Functions’ visual workflows allow for a quick translation of business requirements to technical ones.

From a wide range of AWS Partner success stories to new partner programs launched at AWS re:Invent, here’s a look at the most popular APN Blog posts we shared in 2021. Our goal with this blog has always been to share timely and relevant news, technical solutions, partner stories, and more from Amazon Web Services and the AWS Partner Network (APN) specifically. Thank you for reading the APN Blog, and Happy New Year to all our AWS Partners and customers!

As the world continues to respond to COVID-19, Capgemini is working to find ways to prepare our communities for such pandemics in the future. During this extraordinary time, digital solutions have played a crucial role in enabling employees to work remotely. Learn how the prototype showcased in this post was built by Capgemini and enables an organization to keep track of employee movements within the premises, predict employee sentiment, and help the facilities management team monitor and utilize resources efficiently.

Organizations are pursuing agility by developing automation for business processes using virtual robots, but they need technology that goes beyond simply helping automate a single process. UiPath offers an end-to-end platform for automation with the enterprise-ready cloud infrastructure, AI services, and intelligent automation solutions from AWS that provide the foundation to scale your enterprise automation. UiPath is a leader in the “automation first” era that is enabling robots to learn new skills through AI/ML.

We are excited to highlight 125 AWS Partners that received new designations in November 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.

AWS CloudHSM enables you to generate and use your own encryption keys on AWS. The standard service for managing keys for signing would usually be AWS KMS, but due to legacy requirements from the customer side the team at BJSS needed to support both SHA256 and SHA1. Learn how BJSS successfully signed some data with a key from AWS CloudHSM using Python, and walk through the setup of an AWS CloudHSM cluster for testing using a sample application.

To meet the challenge of simplifying data protection for hybrid environments, Cohesity introduced Data Management as a Service (DMaaS), powered by AWS. Cohesity’s DMaaS portfolio encompasses multiple as-a-service offerings, including Backup-as-a-Service (BaaS) which is available in AWS Marketplace as Cohesity DataProtect. The service is presented via Cohesity’s globally available web interface, so for protecting workloads not running in AWS customers do not even need to have an AWS account.