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Architecture for a multi-Region setup using a Region and Outpost

Ensure Workload Resiliency and Comply with Data Residency Requirements with AWS Outposts

Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Personal Health Information (PHI) data are critical to the continued operation of healthcare organizations. Disaster recovery (DR) strategies must ensure that healthcare provider workloads with PII and PHI data operate with near-zero data loss recovery point objective (RPO) and recovery time objective (RTO). In most cases, an organization would typically […]

Field Notes: Automate Disaster Recovery for AWS Workloads with Druva

This post was co-written by Akshay Panchmukh, Product Manager, Druva and Girish Chanchlani, Sr Partner Solutions Architect, AWS. The Uptime Institute’s Annual Outage Analysis 2021 report estimated that 40% of outages or service interruptions in businesses cost between $100,000 and $1 million, while about 17% cost more than $1 million. To guard against this, it […]

Figure 1. OR optimization options

Emerging Solutions for Operations Research on AWS

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Operations research (OR) uses mathematical and analytical tools to arrive at optimal solutions for complex business problems like workforce scheduling. The mathematical techniques used to solve these problems, such as linear programming and mixed-integer programming, require the use of optimization […]

Figure 1. Example request dataflow through AWS

Practical Entity Resolution on AWS to Reconcile Data in the Real World

This post was co-written with Mamoon Chowdry, Solutions Architect, previously at AWS. Businesses and organizations from many industries often struggle to ensure that their data is accurate. Data often has to match people or things exactly in the real world, such as a customer name, an address, or a company. Matching our data is important […]

Figure 2. Architecture to view Security Hub findings using AWS serverless analytics services

Visualize AWS Security Hub Findings using Analytics and Business Intelligence Tools

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. To improve the security posture in your organization, you first must have a comprehensive view of your security, operations, and compliance data. AWS Security Hub gives you a thorough view of your security alerts and security posture across all your […]

Field Notes: How to Deploy End-to-End CI/CD in the China Regions Using AWS CodePipeline

This post was co-authored by Ravi Intodia, Senior Technology Architect, Infosys Technologies Ltd, Nirmal Tomar, Principal Consultant, Infosys Technologies Ltd and Ashutosh Pateriya, Solution Architect, AWS. Today’s businesses must contend with fast-changing competitive environments, expanding security needs, and scalability issues. Businesses must find a way to reconcile the need for operational stability with the need […]

Top 5 posts of Q1 2021

Top 5: Featured Architecture Content for August

The AWS Architecture Center provides new and notable reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, AWS Well-Architected best practices, whitepapers, and more. This blog post features some of our best picks from the new and newly updated content we released in the past month. 1. Implementing Travel & Hospitality Data Mesh The travel and hospitality industries […]

Field Notes: How to Boost Your Search Results Using Relevance Tuning with Amazon Kendra

One challenge enterprises face when they implement an intelligent search solution for their large data sources, is the ability to quickly provide relevant search results. When working with large data sources, not all features or attributes within your data will be equally relevant to all your users. We want to prioritize identifying and boosting specific […]

Figure 1. Synchronous container applications diagram

Scaling Data Analytics Containers with Event-based Lambda Functions

The marketing industry collects and uses data from various stages of the customer journey. When they analyze this data, they establish metrics and develop actionable insights that are then used to invest in customers and generate revenue. If you’re a data scientist or developer in the marketing industry, you likely often use containers for services […]

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Toyota Connected and AWS Design and Deliver Collision Assistance Application

This post was cowritten by Srikanth Kodali, Sr. IoT Data Architect at AWS, and Will Dombrowski, Sr. Data Engineer at Toyota Connected Toyota Connected North America (TC) is a technology/big data company that partners with Toyota Motor Corporation and Toyota Motor North America to develop products that aim to improve the driving experience for Toyota […]