Tag: AWS Control Tower

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.

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!

A well-architected multi-account AWS environment helps businesses use AWS to migrate, modernize, and innovate faster. Many customers currently using the self-managed AWS Landing Zone solution are looking to transition to AWS Control Tower to gain additional benefits. This post describes a strategic collaboration between Tech Mahindra, AWS, and a customer in Africa to transition from AWS Landing Zone to the AWS Control Tower environment.

Digital Cloud Services (DCS) is a fully managed AWS landing zone-as-a-service from Atos, and the DCS solution offers a managed landing zone platform with enterprise-grade security. It provides customers with the ideal environment to start or continue their business transformation, at pace and scale in a self-service manner. With DCS, customers are safe in the knowledge the underlying platform is built to CIS benchmarks and AWS Well-Architected Framework standards.

OneLogin, an AWS Security Competency Partner, provides an identity platform for secure, scalable, and smart experiences that connects people to technology. Learn about all of the integrations available between OneLogin and AWS. Through these integrations, OneLogin enables you to seamlessly authenticate into AWS managed services across various domains, including analytics, compute, serverless, security, management and governance, and more.

As AWS Control Tower is adopted more and more, it’s important that AWS Consulting Partners within the AWS Solution Provider Program can leverage the multi-account benefits Control Tower offers. Learn how the Solution Provider Program is flexible in the types of customer models it allows. This flexibility serves the end customer’s business needs. However, AWS Partners must take care in how they architect AWS Organizations for their customers, which directly impacts the use of Control Tower.

Managing a cloud infrastructure consisting of multiple AWS accounts is an important but also complex topic for Well-Architected cloud environments. The superwerker on AWS Quick Start provides an automation of what consultants charged with building a platform and landing zone would build for a customer. As an individual consulting solution, this typically involves a mix of consulting and hands-on click ops, as well as building some automation in the customer’s preferred infrastructure provisioning tooling.

Learn how DARPA engaged AWS Premier Consulting Partner Effectual to ensure a secure and reliable AWS environment, as well as to develop a serverless web application that allowed click-button FPGA SoC provisioning to red team researchers for the different processor variants. The result was DARPA’s first public bug bounty program, which enabled research teams to improve their hardware defenses by addressing any discovered weaknesses or bugs.

Cloud infrastructure provides more agility than traditional IT, meaning organizations must think differently about how they design, build, and manage applications. Cloud resources need a stronger integration between IT and organizational governance, as builders need to be able to operate in a cloud environment that’s agile and safe. Hear from APN Ambassador Paolo Latella, who introduces a decentralized model of cloud governance that can help you strike the right balance between agility and safety.

A seamless employee experience requires the workflow of user onboarding and offboarding requires integration between HR systems, ITSM tools, cloud resources, identity and access control, and intelligent automation. To address these common needs, Relevance Lab worked closely with AWS to create an intelligent automation solution using RLCatalyst, ServiceNow, and Jira Service Desk. In this post, walk through the workflow and learn about this solution for automated user onboarding and offboarding.