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Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Carlos Escapa, Global AI/ML Practice Lead at AWSBy Jorge Lopez, Global Segment Lead – Big Data at AWSAdvanced analytics and data products have become a primary source of value generation. Customers and AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners need better, faster, and more relevant insights from their data in order to stay ahead of the competition. But using data effectively requires a data architecture, where raw data can effectively be collected, categorized, and transformed into valuable insights. A data lake architecture can provide a solid foundation and allow you to store ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Mattijis Ten Seldam. By Ben Bridts, APN Ambassador at CloudarBy leveraging services like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to host content, our team at Cloudar has a cost effective way to build websites that are highly available. Cloudar is an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Consulting Partner with AWS Competencies in both DevOps and Government. If we store content in a single Amazon S3 bucket, all of our content is stored in a single Amazon Web Services (AWS) region. To meet regulatory compliance, we can replicate objects for regionally distributed computing, minimize ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The U.S. Air Force migrated the Air Force Portal, which posts officer promotional lists and other information, to the cloud. With a pay-as-you-go model, the Air Force only has to pay if the portal is being used, instead of a flat fee upfront. This model leads to savings when traffic is down.Migrating applications to a commercial cloud eliminates the need for the government to manage and sustain enough servers in times of maximum traffic such as staff sergeant promotion release days. “Now our services are running at a cost of about ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Jon Ruggles, Director of Client Strategies at Five TalentAs an Amazon Web Services (AWS) authorized reviewer, Five Talent is redesigning its business from traditional software development to solutions architecture based on the 5 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework. The move is transforming our consulting approach, from how we onboard clients and projects to how we recruit and train cloud architects. In this post, we’ll discuss how leveraging the AWS Well-Architected Framework Review accelerates new business opportunities for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners and gives customers a holistic, comprehensive process ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The U.S. federal government has been migrating to the cloud for a long time. See the full timeline here. Their cloud journey began with email services and websites, and now virtually any type of workload is running in the AWS Cloud. From websites to mission-critical apps, the cloud is helping government agencies accomplish things they never thought possible.With nearly every department and virtually every sub-agency working in the cloud, the question is – what’s next? Watch this video to hear from Brett McMillen, Senior Manager for U.S. Federal Civilian at AWS, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. AWS services are used throughout the United States by state, local, and federal law enforcement agencies. Customers can create customized cloud-based environments for CJI workloads with training and helpful resources provided by AWS to meet CJIS requirements. Backed by the secure and tested AWS network, customers can feel comfortable putting sensitive workloads in AWS.Many customers that manage sensitive data – including law enforcement agencies, child welfare agencies, motor vehicle departments, financial institutions, and healthcare organizations – are comfortable deploying workloads on AWS GovCloud (US) as the region is designed to meet ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Renata Melnyk. Industrial companies in process and discrete manufacturing leverage highly-specialized software solutions to increase product innovation while decreasing production and operational costs in their value chain.We are excited to announce the AWS Industrial Software Competency Program, highlighting our top AWS Partner Network (APN) Partner solutions for an end-to-end Industrial Software toolchain. AWS Industrial Software Competency Partners provide solutions targeting one or more of the primary steps in discrete manufacturing or process industries: Product Design, Production Design, and Production/Operations. These solutions follow Amazon Web Services (AWS) best practices for building the most secure, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Renata Melnyk. We just announced the new AWS Industrial Software Competency Program for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners.Launch Partners in this program have built solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS) targeting one or more of the primary steps in discrete manufacturing or process industries: Product Design, Production Design, and Production/Operations. These solutions follow AWS best practices for building the most secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure for industry applications. The AWS Competency Program helps customers identify and choose the world’s top APN Partner for their AWS projects and workloads. To give you ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Law enforcement applications are increasingly becoming integrated with the cloud. Whether through computer-aided dispatch, records management, or data analytics, the cloud is enabling officers to accomplish new tasks, including:Uploading, storing, and securing massive quantities of data directly from mobile devices; Accessing records from multiple databases at once; Deploying and tracking emergency response units; Enhancing situational awareness; Dictating and submitting incident reports from the field; and Automating and accelerating transcription and data collection services. To understand the value of cloud computing for police investigations, let’s first compare the traditional way police departments ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Barry Tait, Director of Modernization and Cloud Strategies at Modern SystemsMainframe modernization has shifted to go well beyond simple cost-cutting measures. Mainframe legacy owners now expect additional gains such as conversion to maintainable object-oriented languages, shift of infrastructure to leverage elastic Amazon Web Services (AWS), and development of agile-based processes. Demand has driven increased adoption of rules-based automated conversion of legacy languages to Java or C#, or a longer-term strategic refactor to cloud-native architectures. Typical modernization projects see vendor-skilled resources use specialized migration tools, while customers focus primarily on ... Read More