Tag: AWS Partner Solutions Architects (SA)

In traditional single-tenant environments, calculating and aggregating infrastructure costs is a pretty straightforward exercise. Typically, each application or customer has its own collection of dedicated resources and tallying the costs is simply a matter of categorizing and summing those costs. However, in multi-tenant SaaS environments, this becomes a much more challenging problem. With SaaS, tenants often share some or all of a system’s infrastructure resources.

AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to centrally manage commonly deployed IT services, achieve consistent governance, and help meet compliance requirements. AWS Service Catalog provides a standardized landscape for product provisioning. Users browse listings of products (services or applications) that they have access to, locate the product that they want to use, and launch it on […]

AWS GameDay is an immersive, team-based event we have hosted at AWS Summits and re:Invent over the past few years. The event has teams of players settling into a challenging—and hopefully entertaining—scenario as DevOps leads at Unicorn.Rentals, a popular startup minutes away from the very public launch of a widely anticipated product.

Guest post by Scot Johnson, a Solution Architect for ConvergeHEALTH by Deloitte, part of Deloitte Consulting LLP’s Innovation group (DCI). In light of new laws such as the 21st Century Cures Act and evolving scientific insights, life sciences companies are being pressed to demonstrate clinical value to payers and health authorities.  As a result, life […]

Learn how Financial Services partners like IHS Markit are using AWS to address financial regulatory requirements for financial risk management.  FRTB Regulation New Basel financial risk regulations released in 2016 are transforming global bank risk systems. In January 2016, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) standards, which […]

At AWS, we listen to our customers and partners to learn where we can improve, and our roadmap is almost exclusively driven by customer feedback. Based on the feedback we received on the customer onboarding process, we are pleased to announce that the AWS CloudFormation team has added the Stack Quick-Create Links feature which solves the issues of embedding parameters in the launch stack URL, and directing users to an AWS CloudFormation wizard that has been reduced to a single page.

By Paul Sears. Paul is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS.  Qubole opened up the hood of their architecture of their Qubole Data Service (QDS) as Suresh Ramaswamy, Senior Director Engineering from Qubole discusses how they built their big data platform (QDS) on AWS. Suresh outlines how QDS manages the data processing infrastructure, automatically […]

By Ian Scofield. Ian is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS.  Over the course of three blog posts (Parts 1, 2, and 3), we’ve been discussing a new way for APN Partners to onboard customers, focusing on the creation of cross-account roles.  Throughout this series, we’ve proposed the usage of AWS CloudFormation for the […]

By Erin McGill. Erin is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS.  Throughout this series, we’ve talked about easing cross-account role creation with AWS CloudFormation and a custom stack URL.  We’ve also discussed how to dynamically generate CloudFormation templates to populate a unique external ID. But once your cross-account role is created, how does the […]

Editor’s note: This is the second of a popular two-part series by Tim Mattison. Read Part 1 >> By Tim Mattison, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS focused on IoT Our previous post, AWS IoT on Mongoose OS – Part 1, described how Mongoose OS can connect an Espressif ESP8266 or ESP32 to AWS IoT. It […]