AWS Marketplace

Kanwal “Kay” Mirza is a Business Development Manager leading the Startup segment for AWS Marketplace. In this interview, she touts the power of mentorship, saying, “Never underestimate the impact of mentors; they can truly unlock someone’s potential and career trajectory.”

Maria Anhalt is Chief Executive Officer at Elektrobit, a provider of embedded and connected software products and services for the automotive industry. In this interview, she notes, “Building diverse, equitable, high-performance teams demand a much broader perspective, leadership commitment, and continuous work.”

Kristina Lengyel is the Executive Vice President, Worldwide Corporate Sales for OpenText, with a focus on driving growth via strategic partnerships. On #IWD2023, she advises, “Bring consciousness to the forefront, create a workplace where employees feel safe being passionate and emotional. Create a work environment that embraces compassion and respect, welcomes love in the workplace, and promotes kindness.”

Rose Psalmond, a Senior Solutions Consultant at Appian, aligns technology and business needs to drive complete process automation, facilitated by the Appian platform and AWS cloud services. On #IWD2023, she recommends, “Listen deeply and seek out resources to learn. Elevate the voices and careers of women, trans, and non-binary folks. Advocate for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion resources, structural changes, and training in the workplace. Make space for Black, Indigenous, and other women of color.”

Lorrissa Horton is SVP/GM and Chief Product Officer for Collaboration software at Cisco. She points out, “The way men’s and women’s behavior are perceived aren’t always equitable. And it’s not just our behavior; people can make assumptions based on our very presence.”

Spatial data is a key ingredient for many analytical use cases, such as route optimization, location-based marketing, asset tracking, or environmental risk assessment. Bulk geospatial tasks like geocoding and generating isoline polygons have traditionally required complex APIs or highly specialized software—not to mention the Extract Transform Load (ETL) processes involved in those approaches. CARTO has […]

AWS customers often use Apache Spark for distributed big data processing. Spark has gained popularity due to its fast in-memory computing that enables parallel computation of tasks across multiple nodes. To aid customers with running Spark workloads, Amazon EMR provides a managed cluster platform that makes it easy to run frameworks such as Apache Hadoop, […]

In this post, I share a solution that provides an HTTPS-based drive mapping solution via Amazon S3 with Active Directory integration and folder permissions. You can use this solution to enable remote and mobile access to the same Amazon S3 bucket that is backing a local S3 File Gateway instance. The integration enables office-based employees to access files and folders through the local S3 File Gateway. Remote users can access files and folders as if it were still the same S3 File Gateway, with additional benefits for web and mobile features.

In 2022, AWS Marketplace launched several features to support channel sellers’ business. In this post, I provide summaries and links for key seller features AWS Marketplace made available in 2022, in case you missed them.

In this blog post, Boris, Pramod, and Alex use Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)  to analyze historical market data provided by Refinitiv, part of LSEG, on AWS Data Exchange. We also show how AWS Data Exchange for Amazon S3 (Preview) and Amazon EMR enable us to eliminate undifferentiated heavy lifting and analyze terabytes of data cost-effectively by deploying Amazon EMR on Spot Instances.