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Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. How are startup organizations able to innovate so quickly? Without the large monetary commitment to a physical infrastructure, they can lean on the cloud to provide an environment that allows them to fail—securely and without a large upfront investment.Government agencies are depending on the cloud to do exactly the same – set up an inexpensive environment to scale up and down as testing requires, and deliver the tools they need to improve the lives of their citizens. Why is failing important? Innovation is not easy. It doesn’t usually come on the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ian Scofield. This month, Partner Solutions Architects Tim Mattison, Roy Rodan, and Claudine Morales highlight offerings from AWS Technology Partners Cesanta, GorillaStack, and GuardiCore. Cesanta, by Tim Mattison In Internet of Things (IoT) systems, it is important to be able to build, test, and secure systems with minimal friction.  Customers need a way to get hardware that they can use to rapidly develop and test IoT solutions.  Cesanta, creator of Mongoose OS, which we highlighted in our May Partner SA Roundup, is in the business of providing streamlined tools that simplify the onboarding ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. School districts and State Departments of Education are managing an increasing number of technology products and services that impact students and faculty. As state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) integrate more of these tools into their operations, the amount of student data being generated grows.Because these systems remain largely disconnected from one another, SEAs and LEAs are unable to secure, store, analyze, and report on the data in a unified way. The Ed-Fi Alliance seeks to change that by providing a data standard that allows previously disconnected educational ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. As part of Cybersecurity Awareness month, we announced a joint agreement to advance cybersecurity education efforts with the Organization of American States (OAS), the world’s oldest regional organization that brings together all 35 independent states of the Americas and constitutes the main political, juridical, and social governmental forum in the hemisphere.The OAS uses a four-pronged approach to effectively implement its essential purposes, based on its main pillars: democracy, human rights, security, and development. A focus for the OAS has been on providing regional leadership, educational efforts, and policy engagement on cybersecurity throughout ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. on 12 OCT 2017 | in Public Sector | Permalink |  Share The AWS Quick Start for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) automates the deployment of a compliant AWS Cloud environment for healthcare workloads in just a few clicks. It builds a repeatable and auditable cloud reference architecture that addresses the 52 statutes of HIPAA Phase 1 and the 180 statutes of HIPAA Phase 2 that protect the privacy and security of health information. The Quick Start deploys a model environment that can help organizations with workloads that ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Tod Golding. Identity is not a new concept. There’s a large list of useful tools and technologies that effectively address the authentication and authorization needs of applications. However, for software as a service (SaaS) providers, the identity universe becomes a bit more complicated. SaaS extends the notion of identity, adding new kinds of roles and access considerations that shape and influence the fabric of your SaaS solutions.The SaaS Identity and Isolation with Amazon Cognito Quick Start, which was recently published, equips developers with a full working solution that digs into the nuances of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. on 11 OCT 2017 | in Public Sector | Permalink |  Share Dean Kleissas, Research Engineer working on the IARPA MICrONS Project at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), discussed the project, what makes it unique, and how the team leverages serverless technology in this blog post. From the team’s experience with building and testing their ingest workflow at scale, Dean had some lessons learned focused on AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. Here are some quick tips we learned while taking our ingest service from 0 to 4-5Gpbs, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sara Snedeker. by Sara Snedeker | on 10 OCT 2017 | in Amazon Connect, AWS for Windows, AWS Training and Certification | Permalink | |  Share We have a number of free in-person and online training resources designed specifically for APN Partners so you can more effectively help customers leverage the AWS Cloud. We regularly update and release new training courses so you can be sure you are learning the latest about AWS. AWS Solutions Training for Partners: Windows (Business): Updated Instructor-Led and Web-Based Training We’ve released a major update to our Solutions ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Renata Melnyk. Showcasing Innovative Solutions Focusing on Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) The Financial Services industry is highly regulated, with an increasing need to break the trade-off between compliance and innovation. With the surge in data and new business models, managing security, risk, and compliance have become increasingly complex, driving requirements for enhanced security mechanisms, complex financial calculations, and advanced analytics to simulate evolving market conditions. Faced with the limitations of their on-premises agility, storage, and computing capabilities, financial institutions of all sizes—FinTech startups, hedge funds and asset managers, insurers, commercial banks, and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. A guest post by John Brady, CISSP, VP Cyber Security/CISO, Financial Industry Regulatory AuthorityThe Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) oversees more than 3,900 securities firms with approximately 640,000 brokers. Every day, we watch over nearly 6 billion shares traded in U.S. equities markets—using technology powerful enough to help detect fraud, abuse and insider trading. In fact, FINRA processes approximately 6 terabytes of data and 37 billion records on an average day to build a complete, holistic picture of market trading in the U.S. On busy days, the stock markets can generate 75 ... Read More