AWS for Industries
Author: Ranjan Banerji
Ranjan Banerji is a Principal Partner Solutions Architect on the AWS energy and utilities team. Ranjan has been at AWS for 8.5 years, first on the department of defense (DoD) team helping the branches of the DoD migrate and/or build new systems on AWS ensuring security and compliance requirements and now supporting the energy and utilities team. Ranjan's experience includes serverless architecture, industrial control systems, IoT, advanced metering infrastructure, and security and compliance for regulated industries. Ranjan has over 25 years of experience building and designing systems for the energy, DoD, federal agencies, and financial industry.
Secure data acquisition and control of DERs and grid devices using ASE/Kalkitech Data Hub on AWS
Industry Context In the utility industry, there is a wide range of devices and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that operate in an on-premises environment. With the growth of renewables and distributed energy resources (DERs), electric utilities need to change their energy planning models and operations to maintain reliability and stability of the […]
New Compliance Guide: NERC CIP standards for BES Cyber System Information on AWS
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to release a new Compliance Guide to help support customers who are subject to the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards for BES Cyber System Information (BCSI). Download the guide here. The Compliance Guide helps utility companies understand options for designing and deploying AWS […]
How energy and utility companies can recover from ransomware and other disasters using infrastructure as code on AWS
According to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, “There are 16 critical infrastructure sectors whose assets, systems, and networks, whether physical or virtual, are considered so vital to the United States that their incapacitation or destruction would have a debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination […]
How to securely extend utility OT data to the cloud
Utilities are considering the strategic advantages of modernizing their operational technology (OT) networks to drive business value. OT systems are rich with data that could be used to support simulations, incident response, and business decisions, but the networks they are connected to are often limited by the storage and compute power available onsite. An OT […]
How Kalkitech Rapidly Converted its Million Meter Simulator into a Cloud-based Service
Kalkitech, an AWS Select Technology Partner, is a leading provider of meter communication solutions such as protocol stack for meter reading applications, a meter test tool, and a large-scale meter simulator. Kalkitech stays close to customer needs through its membership in metering standard bodies such as the Bureau of Indian Standards ETD13, the group responsible […]
How AutoGrid Supports Compliance Using AWS Cloud Security Services
AutoGrid builds enterprise software that enables a smarter distributed energy world. The company’s suite of flexibility management applications allows utilities, electricity retailers, renewable energy project developers, and energy service providers to deliver clean, affordable, and reliable energy by managing networked distributed energy resources (DERs) in real time, at scale through different value streams. AutoGrid has […]