Tag: The Next Smart

Migrating to the cloud has allowed many organizations to reduce costs, innovate faster, and deliver business results more effectively. Managing, securing, and having visibility across endpoints, networks, and workloads is not an easy feat and requires a unified defense-in-depth approach. Learn how CrowdStrike’s leading endpoint protection, workload protection, and threat intelligence directly integrate with AWS services to build an effective defense-in-depth solution to stay ahead of threats.

AWS Lambda allows you to run your code without provisioning or managing servers. Observability requires a different and more integrated set of telemetry that gives a comprehensive picture of your functions. Learn how this AWS service is used in practice and how Sumo Logic helps demystify Lambda observability by streamlining telemetry ingestion, unifying data, and correlating insights across disparate services.

Amazon Athena is a serverless interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL. Data stored in S3 can span gigabytes to petabytes, however, and querying such massive data poses unique challenges. Follow along as experts from AWS and Innovative Solutions present a use case-based approach to help evaluate these challenges and propose solutions to improve Amazon Athena query performance.

We are excited to highlight 60 AWS Partners that received new designations in January for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Enterprise customers are modernizing existing workloads to cloud for various reasons. Cost optimization has always been a conversation starter, but that leads to application modernization and operational excellence, which brings agility to application development and enables faster GTM. Learn how Cognizant can help bridge the gap between the infrastructure-as-a-service and integration-platform-as-a-service platform models for modernizing batch processing applications on AWS.

As a modernization service provider, Effectual is focused on a cloud-first approach that includes end-to-end managed and professional services for every stage of IT modernization. Effectual views managed services from a holistic perspective that prioritizes security and compliance. Learn how they were able to integrate AWS next-generation monitoring, as well as operational services like Amazon DevOps Guru, to enhance the company’s managed services offering.

Saint Louis University is at the cutting edge of research, studying human behavior and its economic impact. Learn how the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research (SCAER) uses MontyCloud DAY2, a no-code autonomous CloudOps platform, to run an environment that’s fully automated and self-managed. MontyCloud also helps SCAER automate mounting and unmounting Amazon EBS volumes on demand when Amazon EC2 instances are provisioned.

A key goal of modern data strategy, whether a data mesh, data fabric, data lake, or data warehouse, is to deliver access to data when and where it’s needed. Learn how AWS and Informatica can combine and automate data governance for access within a data marketplace. This solution combines Information’s data governance architecture and the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC) which orchestrates and automates data access management with AWS Lake Formation.

Exasol provides a high performance in-memory analytics database to give organizations the power to transform how they work with data. Working with AWS SaaS Factory, Exasol launched their analytics database through a SaaS model and navigated technical and business decisions for launch and beyond. In this Q&A, Peter Jackson, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Exasol, shares insights on their journey and advice for organizations who are in the process of building SaaS on AWS.

As organizations acquire more and more data, the need to effectively store and query the data has become very important. Canvas Glide from LTI is a tool for administering Amazon Redshift’s day-to-day routine tasks. It also helps organizations manage all financial aspects related to cost allocation, chargeback, monitoring, and planning of Amazon Redshift clusters. Learn how Canvas Glide assists administrators to successfully manage their clusters and guides them on common maintenance tasks.