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Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Richard Elberger. By Richard Elberger, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS By Johannes Lask, Software Developer and Product Manager at SEGGERSEGGER Microcontroller is a full-range supplier of software, hardware, and development tools for embedded systems. They offer support throughout the development process with high quality, flexible, and easy-to-use tools and components. SEGGER is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Standard Technology Partner and provides solutions for secure communication as well as data and product security, meeting the needs of the rapidly evolving Internet of Things (IoT) market. In this post, you will see what your IoT ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Vibhu Bithar. By Vibhu Bithar, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSAsset tracking is an area where the Internet of Things (IoT) has significant business impact. Asset tracking refers to the method of tracking physical assets, either by scanning barcode labels attached to the assets or by using GPS, BLE, or RFID tags that broadcast their location. These technologies can also be used for indoor tracking of persons wearing a tag. Coarse location tracking is a subset of location tracking where the approximate location of an asset (within a 20-mile radius) suffices the use-case requirements. In ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ian Kirkwood. By Ian Kirkwood, APN CSAT Program Manager at AWSThe AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and is focused on helping APN Partners build successful AWS-based businesses or solutions on behalf of AWS customers. We value the opinions and experiences of AWS customers, which is why we launched the AWS Partner Solutions Finder to help customers connect with, search for, and ultimately provide feedback on their engagements with APN Partners. If you’re an AWS customer and have worked with an APN Partner, reviewing your ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Renee Meisenbach. We have expanded and updated our AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner Learning Paths to make it easier for you to find the right training for your role.APN Partners can choose from AWS Business Professional, AWS Technical Professional Path, or a new AWS Professional Services learning path. Each path highlights where to get started, and then directs you where to find and enroll in the relevant training courses and AWS Certification to achieve your learning objectives. APN Partners can access this training at no cost, and many courses are available in both ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. When you plan your data center migration to the cloud, it’s critical to consider how workloads will run for maximum performance and availability. With Microsoft applications making up 60% or more of most on-premises data centers, more and more public sector customers are moving their Microsoft workloads to AWS to improve performance, increase availability, and improve their security posture.One of our customers, Kaplan, was running 12 different data centers across the organization and started moving its applications to AWS to consolidate its infrastructure. As part of the move to the cloud, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. No matter where you work, accounting for your costs can be complex. This is especially true in the public sector, where organizations, universities, and other entities are required to adhere to strict accounting constraints – particularly when accounting for grants and other forms of external funding. Oftentimes, customers use external funding to purchase cloud resources, so it is important that these funds are only allocated towards costs associated with the specific researcher or project for which the external funding was obtained.To help our customers better understand their cloud costs, AWS provides ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Our Canadian customers came together to showcase their latest artificial intelligence (AI) applications using machine learning (ML) on AWS. At Amazon, we’ve been investing in machine learning technology for over 20 years. Our mission is to put machine learning in the hands of every developer and data scientist.With tools likes Amazon SageMaker to vision, speech, and language application services like Amazon Rekognition, Polly, and Lex, our Canadian public sector customers are using machine learning to innovate on behalf of citizens and students. Read on to see the possibilities of machine learning ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS has developed the Well-Architected Framework to help customers architect their mission-critical applications on AWS with secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure. Well Architected can help you build and deploy faster, lower or mitigate risks, make informed decisions, and learn AWS best practices.Five Pillars of the Framework The AWS Well Architected Framework is based on five pillars: Operational Excellence: The operational excellence pillar focuses on running and monitoring systems to deliver business value, and continually improving processes and procedures. Key topics include managing and automating changes, responding to events, and defining ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Listen now on SoundCloud: AWS Public Sector Podcast: Ep. 8. June Roundup | A ‘cloud major’ is a thing, kids build Alexa Skills too & more School’s out for the summer for most students. And still, AWS Educate was top of mind for our readers. Learn about one of the first cloud computing degrees offered at community colleges, Alexa’s new badge, and a new Machine Learning Pathway available for AWS Educate members. Check out our top five posts from June, and listen as AWS Educate Content & Research lead, Shanika Hope, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Derek Belt. We are excited to release a major update to the SAP HANA on AWS Quick Start that supports Multi-AZ, single-node configurations with high availability.The Multi-AZ option uses two Availability Zones (AZs) for the SAP HANA environment on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It provisions two SAP HANA servers—primary and secondary—in separate, private subnets and configures them for high availability. You can choose to create a new virtual private cloud (VPC) for your deployment, or provision the SAP HANA servers in your existing infrastructure. The deployment takes about 35 minutes. The Multi-AZ, single-node, high-availability architecture ... Read More