Tag: Amazon EC2

The security team at Wix, a global leader in providing a comprehensive, cloud-based platform for web development, needed to reduce and prioritize the number of alerts and get a deeper dive into their cloud infrastructure stack. They sought to understand issues and vulnerabilities that could possibly be exploited and gain more context pertaining to incidents. Learn how Orca Security and Amazon GuardDuty helped prioritize detected alerts based on the severity of a security issue, its accessibility, and business impact.

Predicting demand for medical products can be a formidable challenge, since many items have no underlying seasonality patterns nor a consistent shelf life. Learn how Ganit worked with a client to achieve reductions in inventory by designing a robust solution with Amazon Forecast. This post details the approach used to define the objectives and discover the data treatments, and cover employing the flexible architecture provided by Forecast to turn the client’s data into a strength.

AWS is excited to announce the general availability of I4i.metal instances, a new bare-metal instance for VMware Cloud on AWS. This new instance type offers high memory, CPU, and storage configuration that is ideal for workloads needing fast access to datasets. I4i.metal supports a variety of use cases which includes transactional databases (like MySQL, Oracle DB, MS SQL Server) and NoSQL databases (such as MongoDB and Couchbase).

As customers look to innovate with the cloud, AWS is focused on helping organizations grow by enabling them to securely run a wide range of applications with price performance benefits. AMD-powered instances are integral to these offerings, and with AMD’s announcement of fourth-generation AMD EPYC processors AWS plans to offer Amazon EC2 instances powered by the newly-introduced processors. These instances will expand customer choice of compute options available on EC2.

Federated learning (FL) addresses the need of preserving privacy while having access to large datasets for machine learning model training. The NVIDIA FLARE (which stands for Federated Learning Application Runtime Environment) platform provides an open-source Python SDK for collaborative computation and offers privacy-preserving FL workflows at scale. NVIDIA is an AWS Competency Partner that has pioneered accelerated computing to tackle challenges in AI and computer graphics.

Take an in-depth view of the cloud migration and data platform modernization process for Flipboard, which engaged Mactores Cognition for a thorough assessment of the self-managed platform and help migrating existing data workloads to a fully managed Amazon EMR serverless big data platform. The process streamlined Flipboard’s distributed database capabilities, allowing the social media platform to support user spikes at scale, maximize throughput performance, and prepare to expand the user base exponentially.

To reduce the technical complexity and manual processes needed to build pipelines that meet various security policies, Fivetran offers flexible connection options to securely and reliably move enterprise data from source to destination. Fivetran runs on AWS and can support customers syncing data from databases and to destinations hosted on AWS, including the Amazon Redshift data warehouse. Integration with AWS PrivateLink also allows customers to send data without using the public internet.

Enterprises require the ability to be proactive on modern governance challenges. The difficulty is knowing what data you have, where it’s located, its business value or risk to the organization, and how it can be protected. The Smarsh Enterprise Platform enables companies to capture, retain, analyze, and act on the “signals” in communications that are most critical to the business. These include compliance and brand risks and may expand to include security threats, cultural indicators, untapped revenue opportunities, and more.

Explore a migration where Vix Technology partnered with AWS ProServe and Stromasys, an AWS Migration and Modernization Competency Partner, to successfully migrating over 100 applications, including both x86 and SUN SPARC Solaris mission-critical workloads within nine months before a data center contract renewal with near-zero customer impact. Vix’s key business drivers for migration were to move to a more secure, cost effective, and resilient environment.

For many organizations, the cloud is considered a key enabler to purposeful digital transformations. The process of moving applications, data, and infrastructure to AWS with minimal impact on operational continuity, low risk, and reduced cost is the key to a well-defined migration strategy. LTI’s Infinity AppLens is a re-engineering assistant solution that identifies complexities and assesses the cloud readiness of application portfolios to coin an efficient cloud modernization roadmap.