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How to Use a CIS Hardened Image to Set Up an Amazon EC2 Mac Instance

Learn how to set up an Amazon EC2 Mac instance with a hardened image provided by the Center for Internet Security (CIS). This will help you to mitigate common threats like malware, denial of service, insufficient authorization, and overlapping trust boundary threats. CIS is an AWS Partner and community-driven nonprofit that aims to make the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments.

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Developing Data-Driven IoT Business Models for Sustainability with Storm Reply

Firms spend substantial efforts to identify and collect quality data streams from different sources. However, identifying and interpreting energy, water, or gas usage patterns and consumption types is sometimes insufficient. In this post, you’ll learn how Storm Reply, combining industry knowledge with its expertise in the development of data analytics platforms in AWS, can help customers in the design, development, and maintenance of secure serverless IoT big data platforms with a focus on sustainability.

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Securing AWS Accounts with Azure Active Directory Federation

With AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), AWS provides a central way to manage user identities and permissions. However, creating and managing the lifecycle of IAM users in AWS can be time-consuming. This post explores how to authenticate users against Azure AD for access to one or multiple AWS accounts using SAML federation. Additionally, it includes a walkthrough on how to setup the federation across Azure AD and multiple AWS accounts.

Create AWS Accounts and Align to the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark with Stax

Learn how the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark helps organizations operate securely whilst examining the common challenges businesses face in its implementation. Stax can offer a solution to speed up AWS account creation while adhering to the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark. Creating and configuring AWS accounts securely can be a time-consuming and tedious exercise. Competing priorities can result in rushed or inconsistent process, impacting security, agility, and velocity.

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Accelerating Genomics and High Performance Computing on AWS with Relevance Lab Research Gateway Solution

Running genomics and high performance computing (HPC) workloads is complicated. To address these customer asks, Relevance Lab developed Research Gateway—a solution that delivers secure and scalable research without customers having to do the heavy lifting. This post provides an overview of the solution architecture and standard genomic research workflow, including a walkthrough of how to access Research Gateway, provision products required for their genomics sequencing analysis, and run the analysis.

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Implementing Data Analytics in Industrial Machines with Quantiphi and AWS-Native Solutions

To improve the fault detection process, it’s crucial to monitor production systems and collect performance data in real-time using smart sensors and IoT devices. This post highlights the critical aspects of Quantiphi’s serverless, fully-managed, and streaming ETL pipeline, along with the benefits of the centralized lakehouse (data lake + data warehouse) solution built on AWS. Learn how the solution helped a U.S.-based manufacturing company make better decisions and improve their customer’s production efficiency.

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Strengthening Cloud Governance and Optimizing FinOps with LTI Infinity Ensure

As customers continue to accelerate business transformation by moving to the cloud, the need for a more self-reliant and integrated cloud governance framework with enhanced security and compliance, cost management, and reporting and analytics, is on the rise. Learn how Infinity Ensure can help enterprises optimize cloud governance with continuous monitoring and tracking, and get recommendations to keep up with cloud innovations.

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Agile Transformation of an Automotive Dealer Application for Scalability and Availability with AWS

There is a growing need for automotive dealers to adopt innovative technology to transition into the digital era smoothly, as customers are leaning towards secure, cloud-native solutions with modern features that are backed by superior support. Learn how Tech Mahindra transformed a monolithic application into a resilient and reliable solution to support expanding dealer networks. To build this cloud-native transformation approach, Tech Mahindra used AWS and a microservices-based API-first architecture.

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GA Telesis Launches a Fraud Detection SaaS Solution with Support from AWS SaaS Factory

With the support of AWS SaaS Factory, GA Telesis launched the FraudBlock SaaS solution, a fraud protect API service for companies to protect their organizations from BEC/EAC scams and help securely perform B2B transactions. The SaaS Factory team spoke with Darryl Maraj, Head of Technology at DIG and CTO at Blockrails, to learn more about Blockrails, the value its new FraudBlock solution brings to customers, and the key lessons learned building a SaaS solution on AWS.

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Protecting Your Deployments from Advanced Threats with AWS and IronNet

Working with AWS, IronNet delivers threat detection and mitigation at scale across networks that are on premises, in the cloud, or both. IronNet collects logs and traffic data to identify indicators of attack or abnormal behavior in order to stop advanced cyberattacks. At its foundation, the IronNet solution consists of one or more sensors to feed network data and logs to IronDefense—the backend collection and analysis point for detection.