Category: Events

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Trevor Hansen. By Trevor Hansen, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Nitzan Shapira, Co-Founder & CEO at EpsagonServerless applications are becoming more and more popular as organizations seek to increase developer velocity, shorten time-to-market, and reduce infrastructure costs. Services like AWS Lambda enable developers and DevOps engineers to be more productive by providing a managed service to run their code, as well as a large variety of APIs to build modern and scalable applications. With so many moving pieces in production, solutions like Epsagon enable companies to move faster by monitoring and solving issues ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. Each year, we honor AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners who are leaders in the channel and play key roles in helping customers drive innovation and build solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS).APN Partners are dedicated to helping AWS customers build, market, and sell their offerings so they can grow a successful cloud business. Announced during our annual AWS Partner Summits, APN Partner Awards recognize a wide range of born-in-the-cloud and traditional APN Consulting and Technology Partners whose business models have embraced specialization and collaboration. Please join us in congratulating these leading ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: David Piet. By David Piet, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSOne of the advantages of using VMware Cloud on AWS is being able to leverage native AWS services, such as shared file systems with Amazon FSx, and seamlessly integrate them back into your VMware Cloud on AWS software defined data center (SDDC). When you provision an SDDC from VMware, the ESXi hypervisors are automatically deployed onto bare metal Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances with elastic network interfaces that connect to your own Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. This post describes how you ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. There will be 160 sessions, an Earth and Space keynote, a fireside chat with Andy Jassy, CEO of AWS, and more at this year’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Summit in Washington, DC. Your challenge is to decide what activities you don’t want to miss!Here are a few suggestions to get on your calendar: Earth & Space Keynote: Back by popular demand, Teresa Carlson, Vice President of Worldwide Public Sector at AWS, will host the Earth & Space on AWS keynote on Monday, June 10, to kick off the Summit ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. A guest post by Shane Riddell, Technical Fellow, ellucian®With cyberattacks on the rise against higher education institutions, it is critical to detect vulnerabilities in the Docker images that may run your applications. This involves not just vulnerability scanning of the applications, but of the OS packages installed in a Docker image as well. Figure 1 ECR CVE Monitor Architecture Overview The ecr-cve-monitor project is an open-source proof-of-concept designed to fill the OS/package vulnerability scanning space for Docker images stored in Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR). It’s based on Clair and Klar, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Trevor Hansen. By Trevor Hansen, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Nitzan Shapira, Co-Founder & CEO at EpsagonServerless applications are becoming more and more popular as organizations seek to increase developer velocity, shorten time-to-market, and reduce infrastructure costs. Services like AWS Lambda enable developers and DevOps engineers to be more productive by providing a managed service to run their code, as well as a large variety of APIs to build modern and scalable applications. With so many moving pieces in production, solutions like Epsagon enable companies to move faster by monitoring and solving issues ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. Many companies that manage contact center operations expend much of their effort just keeping the infrastructure running. It takes time to develop specialized skills, attract and retain staff, and manage the procurement of software licenses and IT equipment that are complex, generally proprietary, and often not focused on helping customers.Implementing Amazon Connect helps organizations realize significant capital and operational savings. Amazon Connect is a self-service, cloud-based contact center service that makes it easy for any business to deliver better customer service at lower cost. It’s based on the same contact center technology used by 70,000 Amazon customer service associates ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. From January 24, 2019 – April 22, 2019, AWS Educate hosted the Alexa Skills Challenge for student members in the United States. Students built solutions to address challenges in the academic setting related to student life, learning, and the community. Participants learned and built solutions using a variety of AWS technologies such as machine learning and conversational artificial intelligence. With AWS Educate’s resources and support, participants delivered helpful Alexa Skills.A panel of judges selected a grand prize winner, the top category prize winners, and honorable mentions. Students will be awarded prizes including an AWS ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. A guest post by TechnologyOne StaffSoftware as a Service (SaaS) and cloud infrastructure have altered the dynamic between business units and the IT department. According to Julie Ember, SaaS transition specialist at TechnologyOne, IT professionals are facing ever-increasing demands for the services they provide to businesses. “The complexity of IT environments, the rate of change, the cost pressures, the increasing security risks and the growing needs of the business has resulted in many IT teams straining to deliver, let alone provide innovation and improvements,” Ember said. “Business managers cannot afford to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Derek Belt. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS). We enable APN Partners to build successful AWS-based businesses, and we help customers identify top APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives.To receive APN program designations such as AWS Competency, AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery, organizations must undergo rigorous technical validation and assessment of their AWS solutions and practices. These designations help customers identify and choose specialized APN Partners that can provide value-added services and solutions. Guidance from these skilled professionals leads ... Read More