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Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Communities across the country are searching for ways to end homelessness. Many experts point to disparate data as an inhibitor to understand and address the needs of individuals experiencing homelessness. Although the causes of homelessness vary, people who find themselves homeless often interact with multiple agencies – housing, healthcare, law enforcement, and nonprofits providing support services. But those organizations rarely share information with each other – a challenge that, if addressed, can be a game changer in the national efforts to prevent and combat homelessness.In Texas, state leaders recognize the challenge, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Phil de Valence. By Andy Jones, Senior Technical Representative at Treehouse SoftwareBy Joseph Brady, Director of Business Development at Treehouse SoftwareBy Phil de Valence, Solutions Architect for Mainframe Modernization at AWSCustomers that still have business-critical data locked in mainframes want to exploit this data with Amazon Web Services (AWS) agile services for analytics purposes, to create new communication channels, and for quickly developing new innovations. Fortunately, Treehouse Software’s tcVISION replicates data in real-time and bi-directionally between mainframes and AWS to allow for these new use cases. Treehouse Software is an AWS Partner Network ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Managing water crises is one of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and the decline in the available quality and quantity of fresh water is ranked as one of the top ten most serious societal risks by the World Economic Forum’s 2018 Global Risks report. Using satellite imagery available through the AWS Open Data Program and the AWS Cloud, BlueDot Observatory is establishing a global monitoring system for all at-risk water bodies. This monitoring reveals a sad truth – the total loss of water bodies is in the not-too-distant future.We invited ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Sagar Khasnis. By Sagar Khasnis, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Awaneendra Tiwari, Cloud Architect at BrillioSome of the customers we work with have a central database where they keep tag values, and they want to enforce tags at provisioning using the tag enforcement capability of AWS Service Catalog. For example, a customer can have a central location where they keep all of their constantly-updated cost center information, and they use that information as tag values in their AWS Service Catalog portfolios. In this post, we’ll show you how to implement tag options so the ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. The British Columbia Automobile Association (BCAA) started the mobility revolution in B.C. over 100 years ago when a small group of British Columbians, passionate about cars and mobility, joined together to form an auto club. A century later, BCAA continues to help new generations get to where they need to go, and Evo is one way BCAA meets their changing mobility needs. Evo Car Share is Vancouver’s free-floating car sharing service offering a full fleet of 1,500 four-door, hybrid vehicles.Improving Car Location to Maximize Customer Satisfaction Convenience is the primary driver ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Cities spend hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to do point-in-time traffic studies. Those studies assist cities in planning traffic signal timings and detours during street-closures. The City of Louisville, Kentucky, was paying every year for traffic studies and analysis and was getting static reports back. Instead, Louisville decided to use real-time congestion data freely available to governments through the Waze CCP (Connected Citizens Program). Combined with other information like built environment data and collision reports, Louisville could bring this together in the cloud for advanced analytics.Using AWS, Louisville’s Innovation ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Roy Rodan, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Mor Cohen-Tal, CTO Cloud at TurbonomicBy Murphy Vandervelde, Product Marketing Manager at TurbonomicMigrating existing workloads to the cloud and adopting infrastructure management allows businesses to leverage the scalability and rapid innovation of Amazon Web Service (AWS). This can also help you adopt new services as they’re released, and scale operations based on demand. In this post, we will cover how a Fortune 500 company achieved migration milestones and reduced their AWS spend by 40 percent using Turbonomic. Turbonomic is an AWS Partner Network ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. 2018 saw many natural disasters devastating areas of the United States. To enable disaster response organizations’ access to cloud services at the edge, even in the harshest conditions, we announced the launch of the AWS Disaster Response Program (AWS DRP).About the AWS DRP The AWS DRP team focuses on building strategic relationships with governments, non-governmental organizations (NGO), nonprofit organizations (NPO), and educational institutions focusing on disaster response. Additionally, the AWS DRP is developing a capability to deploy technical AWS staff during disasters and directly aid disaster-responding organizations in leveraging AWS technology ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Kishore Vinjam, Partner Solutions Architect at AWSBy Andreas Grabner, Director of Strategic Partner Enablement & Evangelism at DynatraceEngineers working in cloud operations or system administration are often tasked with manually updating scripts to remediate issues detected by performance monitoring tools. This can include process restarts, resource cleanup, memory outage, and CPU utilization, and these issues are frequent and take up precious time. In this post, we will demonstrate how using Dynatrace, AWS Lambda, and AWS Service Catalog, customers can build a workflow to initiate the required incident response action to the problems ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. 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 to easily identify specialized 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 top APN Partners that can provide value-added services and solutions. Guidance from these skilled ... Read More