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Figure 2. Network Mapper scanner task workflow

Modernize your Penetration Testing Architecture on AWS Fargate

Organizations in all industries are innovating their application stack through modernization. Developers have found that modular architecture patterns, serverless operational models, and agile development processes provide great benefits. They offer faster innovation, reduced risk, and reduction in total cost of ownership. Security organizations must evolve and innovate as well. But security practitioners often find themselves […]

Multi-Region security, identity, and compliance services

Creating a Multi-Region Application with AWS Services – Part 1, Compute, Networking, and Security

Many AWS services have features to help you build and manage a multi-Region architecture, but identifying those capabilities across 200+ services can be overwhelming. In this 3-part blog series, we filter through those 200+ services and focus on those that have specific features to assist you in building multi-Region applications. In Part 1, we’ll build […]

Field Notes: Building On-Demand Disaster Recovery for IBM DB2 on AWS

With the increased adoption of critical applications running in the cloud, customers often find themselves revisiting traditional strategies that were adopted for on-premises workloads. When it comes to IBM DB2, one of the first decisions to make is to decide what backup and restore method will be used. In this blog post, we will show […]

Figure 1. PI Connector architecture

Ingesting PI Historian data to AWS Cloud using AWS IoT Greengrass and PI Web Services

In process manufacturing, it’s important to fetch real-time data from data historians to support decisions-based analytics. Most manufacturing use cases require real-time data for early identification and mitigation of manufacturing issues. A limited set of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) tools integrate with OSIsoft’s PI Historian for real-time data. However, each integration requires months of development effort, […]

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Scale Up Language Detection with Amazon Comprehend and S3 Batch Operations

Organizations have been collecting text data for years. Text data can help you intelligently address a range of challenges, from customer experience to analytics. These mixed language, unstructured datasets can contain a wealth of information within business documents, emails, and webpages. If you’re able to process and interpret it, this information can provide insight that […]

Figure 1. Step Functions Express workflow solution

Running a Cost-effective NLP Pipeline on Serverless Infrastructure at Scale

Amenity Analytics develops enterprise natural language processing (NLP) platforms for the finance, insurance, and media industries that extract critical insights from mountains of documents. We provide a scalable way for businesses to get a human-level understanding of information from text. In this blog post, we will show how Amenity Analytics improved the continuous integration (CI) […]

Figure 1. Architecture for batch inference at scale with Amazon SageMaker

Batch Inference at Scale with Amazon SageMaker

Running machine learning (ML) inference on large datasets is a challenge faced by many companies. There are several approaches and architecture patterns to help you tackle this problem. But no single solution may deliver the desired results for efficiency and cost effectiveness. In this blog post, we will outline a few factors that can help […]

Figure 1. App2Container scaling architecture overview

Migrate your Applications to Containers at Scale

AWS App2Container is a command line tool that you can install on a server to automate the containerization of applications. This simplifies the process of migrating a single server to containers. But if you have a fleet of servers, the process of migrating all of them could be quite time-consuming. In this situation, you can […]

Figure 1. Audit Surveillance data lake architecture diagram

How Parametric Built Audit Surveillance using AWS Data Lake Architecture

Parametric Portfolio Associates (Parametric), a wholly owned subsidiary of Morgan Stanley, is a registered investment adviser. Parametric provides investment advisory services to individual and institutional investors around the world. Parametric manages over 100,000 client portfolios with assets under management exceeding $400B (as of 9/30/21). As a registered investment adviser, Parametric is subject to numerous regulatory […]

Overview of services that integrate with CloudWatch and Trusted Advisor for monitoring metrics

Optimizing your AWS Infrastructure for Sustainability, Part III: Networking

In Part I: Compute and Part II: Storage of this series, we introduced strategies to optimize the compute and storage layer of your AWS architecture for sustainability. This blog post focuses on the network layer of your AWS infrastructure and proposes concepts to optimize your network utilization. Optimizing the networking layer of your AWS infrastructure When you […]