Tag: AWS Competency Partners

Many organizations are adopting data lakes to handle large volumes of data, and flexible pipelines to fit the needs of consuming services and teams (machine learning, business intelligence, and analytics). In this post, we’ll explore the modern data lake and how Fivetran can help accelerate time-to-value with Amazon S3 and Apache Iceberg. Fivetran offers pre-built connectors for 300+ data sources and employs ETL to land data in the warehouse or data lake.

Protecting AWS account root users with multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a crucial security control, and now you can use CyberArk’s Privileged Access Manager (PAM) to securely manage the AWS account root and authenticate its use with MFA. We’ll review the current MFA features for AWS account root user, provide a step-by-step walkthrough of how to install and configure CyberArk PAM to manage root accounts with MFA, and show how to sign into the AWS root account with CyberArk PAM.

Monitoring and managing cloud-based resources is crucial for maintaining performance, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring the health of your infrastructure. Learn about the integration of Amazon CloudWatch with VMware Cloud on AWS with a focus on monitoring the workload of virtual machines. We’ll elaborate on the benefits of integrating CloudWatch with other AWS services as well as third-party services like ServiceNow ITSM tool and IBM Netcool.

As the world grows, concerns over pollution and climate change are forcing businesses to redesign how they produce and use energy. A notable approach for achieving this objective is through informing end users of their power usage patterns. Learn how IBM’s anomaly detection solution for energy and utilities helps companies increase energy efficiency leveraging a personalized AI paradigm and to calculate ESG metrics related to energy consumption.

Managing software development activities can be complex for enterprises, especially with the need for a single dashboard that provides insights into business, process, and people-centric metrics. Apexon’s COMPASS solution leverages machine learning to capture and integrate continuous data and intelligence across the software development lifecycle, providing a comprehensive view of resource performance and its impact on KPIs.

The cloud has become integral to modern businesses, providing unprecedented scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. Learn how AWS Partners TD SYNNEX and CoreStack worked together to introduce an innovative solution based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework and CoreStack’s AI-powered NextGen cloud governance and FinOps capabilities to help customers optimize their cloud costs and improve overall cloud operations.

Ness Digital Engineering works with organizations to ensure AWS infrastructure supports strategic initiatives. In this post, we outline an approach for enterprises seeking a mechanism to align cloud costs with their business value. We’ll discuss various change management challenges that such efforts may encounter and share ways to address them, and explore how a robust FinOps function can solve chronic issues that plague cloud cost management at large enterprises.

IBM’s watsonx is an artificial intelligence and data platform designed to scale and accelerate the impact of AI with trusted data. As a part of watsonx, IBM has launched watsonx.data, which enables customers to scale analytics and AI with a fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture. It provides querying, governance, and open data formats for easy data access and sharing. Customers can connect to their data within minutes, gain trusted insights quickly, and reduce data warehouse costs.

Traditional security approaches are often unable to detect and stop complex API attacks. It was for exactly this purpose that Salt Security was established in 2018. Salt’s founders have a unique patent to use big data and AI/ML that allows Salt to spearhead the growing industry of dedicated API security solutions. Learn how the Salt Security platform allows for the analysis of API traffic that exposes complex attacks, including those identified in the OWASP API Security Top 10 list.

Organizations need to be able to carefully define, monitor, and manage who has access to specific pieces of data according to their policies and external regulations. Effective data governance ensures data is consistent and trustworthy without being misused. Learn how Privacera enables data access governance on Amazon Aurora, including tag-based access control policies, and how Privacera can be used to mask columns or filter by row.