Tag: The Next Smart

For many organizations, the cloud is considered a key enabler to purposeful digital transformations. The process of moving applications, data, and infrastructure to AWS with minimal impact on operational continuity, low risk, and reduced cost is the key to a well-defined migration strategy. LTI’s Infinity AppLens is a re-engineering assistant solution that identifies complexities and assesses the cloud readiness of application portfolios to coin an efficient cloud modernization roadmap.

In celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the AWS Partner Network (APN), we are highlighting some of our AWS Partners who have grown with us over the past decade. Cloudreach, an Atos company, is an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner and MSP that offers database migration services from any origin to Amazon RDS for Oracle or Amazon RDS for SQL Server. We spoke with Cloudreach’s David Kress about the company’s 10-year transformation and what being an AWS Partner has meant for the business.

We are excited to highlight 112 AWS Partners that received new designations in September 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.

Provectus, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner with the Data and Analytics Competency, helps clients resolve issues of their legacy, on-premises data platforms by implementing best practices for the migration and optimization of Amazon EMR workloads. This post examines the challenges organizations face along the path to a successful migration, and explores best practices for re-architecting and migrating on-premises data platforms to AWS

While utilities have historically been rich with data from customers, programs, and assets, many organizations often manage data in siloes. Source data can also be disorganized, with deficiencies in defined quality assurance and quality control processes. Learn how utilities are successfully embracing Accenture’s data-led transformation (DLT) and leveraging accelerators powered by AWS to reach their business objectives and meet regulatory obligations.

Containers are widely used in the development of cloud-native applications based on a microservices architecture. These applications are designed to be scalable, highly available, and resilient to failure. Learn about common use cases of containers which can be implemented by leveraging AWS services and how AWS Premier Tier Services Partner Infosys offers integrated consulting and technology solutions that leverage of the flexibility and economics of cloud where IT and business services are delivered on demand.

In line with Capgemini Group‘s sustainability vision to become a net zero business by 2040, Sogeti has collaborated with AWS to find a pragmatic solution that is helping to bring this vision to life—the Sogeti Carbon Estimator (SCE). This tool can be used to automatically bring insights into the carbon footprint of any cloud component used to serve technology, including complex AI solutions enabled by MLOps. SCE highlights the goal of many cloud providers and businesses—to unlock the value of cloud sustainably.

Large enterprise customers depend heavily on commercial off the shelf (COTS) products for scheduling jobs or running batch jobs, but these COTS products are often not cloud-native which prevents them from taking advantage of the various cloud services. Learn how Resolution Life US collaborated with Cognizant and AWS to modernize its on-premises third-party enterprise job scheduler with an event-driven custom scheduler solution using Amazon FSx, AWS Step Functions, Amazon EventBridge, and AWS Lambda.

Learn how you can securely migrate your data from an on-premises network file system (NFS) to Amazon S3 using AWS DataSync. We’ll also provide guidance on how Trend Micro Cloud One – File Storage Security can be implemented to perform malware scanning, as well as address compliance, needs such as PCI-DSS and HIPAA. Trend Micro is an AWS Security Competency Partner and global leader in cybersecurity, helping make the world safe for exchanging digital information.

Federation using SAML 2.0 enables customers to use their existing external IdP and avoid managing multiple sources of identities when accessing AWS accounts. This post builds on the recommendation of using regional SAML endpoints for failover by showing how you can configure Okta‘s federation with IAM to increase its availability. Learn how to configure Okta, an AWS Security Competency Partner, to utilize multiple regional AWS SAML sign-in endpoints that can be deployed at setup by the Okta admin.