Tag: Amazon Web Services

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Girish Chanchlani. By Girish Chanchlani, Storage Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Peter Elliman, Director of Product Marketing at DruvaWhen choosing between a software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup and recovery solution versus an on-premises one, the most common question that comes up is about the speed of recovery. Since they host backup data in the public cloud and not in local data centers, can SaaS solutions be used to meet customers’ business-critical recovery time objective (RTO) needs? To find out, we ran a series of data restore tests with Druva’s SaaS backup and recovery solution for ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Louise Dwyer. Driven by the need for greater productivity, lower costs, and more recently being able to scale a remote workforce, organizations around the world are moving their IT workloads to the cloud. Planning a move to the cloud requires upfront pre-migration planning; this is as important as the implementation itself. But it can be daunting to know where to start or what needs to be in place for a successful migration. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Adoption Readiness Tool (CART) can help provide insight into your level of readiness and what you ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Hilary Billingslea. State and local governments and health and human services (HHS) agencies provide key services to the nation’s most vulnerable and at-risk populations such as healthcare, nutrition, economic, and other social support programs. HHS organizations were among the first to feel the impact of COVID-19 and its effects continue to linger and test aging infrastructure and limited technology systems. State and local government agencies made mission critical decisions to address those immediate needs and are preparing for resiliency moving forward. For this, they turned to the cloud. To help organizations discover how the ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Codership; We have video recording available for you to learn how you can benefit the New Galera Manager. It includes live demo how to install Galera Manager and deploy easily Galera Cluster on Amazon Web Service for Geo-distributed Multi-master MySQL, Disaster Recovery and fast local reads and writes. Now you can monitor and manage your Galera Cluster with Graphical Interface. “The presentation was great with lots of valuable information. We will definitely try to implement Galera Manager in our environment very soon” stated attendee of the webinar. Watch Galera Manager webinar recording Download Galera Manager ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Ben Stockton; Picking the right cloud storage solution for your Mac can be a challenge. Do you go with Apple’s built-in service, iCloud, or do you spend your money on a third-party option? There are plenty of variables to consider, so this Dropbox vs iCloud matchup will give you a stronger understanding of how both services measure up against each other. We’re looking at the high-level similarities and differences between these two popular cloud storage solutions. If you’d like a deeper dive into the features each provides, check out our earlier iCloud Drive review and Dropbox review ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Maysam Ali. Educational institutions are responding to challenges that have become more complicated since the start of the pandemic. New learning models, declining enrollments, rising health and safety costs, and cuts in public funding are forcing education leaders to rethink ways to deliver quality education in a more cost-effective, agile, and scalable way. Despite these challenges, educators report that technology has made it easier—and faster—to innovate, and to meet students’ evolving needs. In this recently released paper, learn the seven trends in the new world of education that most commonly arise during our interactions ... Read More

Feed: AWS Public Sector Blog. Author: Ben Butler. The global network of Cloud Innovation Centers (CICs) powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) aims to empower public sector organizations to quickly create and test new ideas using Amazon’s innovation methodology. The CIC program brings students, researchers, and the technology expertise of AWS together to solve public sector challenges and gives students the opportunity to engage in project-based learning. Check out some of the CIC challenges during the third quarter of 2020:Arizona State University (ASU) Smart City CIC: Improving access to water integrity data in South Africa The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, a ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon MQ is a managed message broker service for Apache ActiveMQ that makes it easy to set up and operate message brokers on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Message brokers allow different software systems, often using different programming languages, to communicate and exchange information. With Amazon MQ, you can use industry standard APIs and protocols for messaging, including JMS, NMS, AMQP, STOMP, MQTT, and WebSocket. You can easily move from any message broker that uses these standards to Amazon MQ because you don’t have to rewrite any messaging code in your applications.  ... Read More

Feed: AWS for SAP. Author: Kenny Rajan. As a first step to business transformations, SAP on AWS customers relish the flexibility, agility, and scalability of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform and its support for the complete set of certified SAP offerings to run their business-critical SAP workloads. For some of our customers like Madrileña Red de Gas (MRG), the most immediate benefit has been the flexibility gained in the AWS Cloud, resulting in lower SAP infrastructure costs. But what inspires them the most is the broad range of technologies that AWS offers in the areas of Big Data, Machine ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Prasad Rao. By Prasad Rao, Partner Solution Architect at AWSBy Nikolay Bunev, Sr. Cloud Consultant at HeleCloudRunning workloads on the cloud can help customers reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) while increasing agility and scalability. When transforming their operations for the cloud, it’s imperative organizations understand cloud security controls and enable them to correctly protect and secure their data. Within the AWS Shared Responsibility Model, Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers are responsible for securing their workloads within the application layer. To help with this, AWS provides a variety of tools and features that ... Read More