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Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ian Scofield. By Ian Scofield. Ian is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS. Over the course of three blog posts (Parts 1, 2, and 3), we’ve been discussing a new way for APN Partners to onboard customers, focusing on the creation of cross-account roles.  Throughout this series, we’ve proposed the usage of AWS CloudFormation for the creation of this role, to provide an automated process that can seamlessly integrate into an existing onboarding workflow. In this post, we’ll recap the components discussed so far, put it all together, and show you the completed ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kate Miller. By Michael Barrow, Technical Alliance Architect, Cloud Providers, Commvault. Commvault is an Advanced APN Technology Partner and AWS Storage Competency Partner.Cloud data management is an important part of your cloud journey, but it doesn’t have to be overly complicated. When your cloud strategy includes automated, repeatable processes for data migration, data management, and using data in the cloud, you can more quickly realize the benefits of your cloud projects. Commvault: evolved data protection for a cloud-first world Commvault, a comprehensive data management platform for both on-premises and cloud data, provides holistic ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. From computer vision systems for autonomous driving to FDA-approved medical imaging, artificial intelligence (AI) is driving public sector innovation. Governments, defense agencies, and other public sector organizations are adding AI into their platform, solutions, and products to perform tasks that usually require human-level intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision making, or translation.In order to change the way services are delivered to the blind or to inspire the next generation of space explorers, organizations need to overcome hurdles related to the scale of data, scale of compute, and variety of ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Erin McGill. By Erin McGill. Erin is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS. Throughout this series, we’ve talked about easing cross-account role creation with AWS CloudFormation and a custom stack URL.  We’ve also discussed how to dynamically generate CloudFormation templates to populate a unique external ID. But once your cross-account role is created, how does the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) for the generated cross-account role in the customer account get back to your company’s onboarding portal? Asking the customer to cut and paste the output ARN is possible, but it’s a manual step ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Aaron Rallo. By Aaron Rallo, CEO, TSO Logic.This is a guest post from TSO Logic, an Advanced APN Technology Partner and AWS Migration Competency Partner. Let’s say you’re considering migrating to the AWS Cloud, but first want to get a solid grasp on the economics. Maybe your team hasn’t had the time to identify how much compute you actually are using so they can evaluate potential migration costs. Or maybe your team is running numbers based on limited, static data and they have concluded that migration would be more expensive. If you are ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. Seminole County Public Schools (SCPS), the 12th largest school district in Florida with more than 67,000 students and 10,000 employees, required a secure and mobile responsive website that could keep up with the growth in Seminole County.As a premier district nationally, they wanted a website that reflected their high standards. Their old website, created in house by their IT department almost five years ago, was filled with outdated information (wrong numbers and incorrect contact information) and spanned over 2,000 pages. The dated aesthetic, combined with a cumbersome back-end system for web ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Tim Mattison. Enhancing IoT security with Mongoose OS, Espressif, Microchip, and AWS IoTBy Tim Mattison. Tim is a Partner SA focused on IoT. Background Our previous post, AWS IoT on Mongoose OS, Part 1, described how Mongoose OS can connect an Espressif ESP8266 or ESP32 to AWS IoT. It explained how AWS IoT sets the bar very high for security with Transport Layer Security (TLS) mutual authentication that assures both the client and server that they’re communicating with the correct system. How can continue to optimize? In this post, I will explain how ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. We just wrapped the AWS Public Sector Summit in Washington D.C with over 10,000 registrations, 100 business and technical sessions, and 95 partners participating.At the Summit, Werner Vogels, Amazon’s CTO, and Teresa Carlson, AWS’s VP of Worldwide Public Sector, took the main stage at the Summit to share announcements affecting our public sector customers. Read about the announcements below: AWS GovCloud (US) Heads East – New Region in the Works for 2018: AWS GovCloud (US) gives AWS customers a place to host sensitive data and regulated workloads in the AWS Cloud ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kate Miller. At re:Invent 2016, we launched the AWS Public Sector Program to recognize APN Partners with solutions and experience delivering government, education, and nonprofit customer missions globally. The goal of the AWS Public Sector Program is to provide specific guidance and resources to help APN Partners build a successful business while focusing on serving the specific needs of public sector customers.The AWS public sector customer base continues to grow at a rapid pace. In the Education space specifically, higher education, K-12, and Research IT teams worldwide are using the AWS Cloud to ... Read More

Feed: AWS Government, Education, & Nonprofits Blog. Author: publicsector. On-demand compute, storage, and database services help higher education, K-12 and research IT teams build secure environments for mission-critical applications, freeing them to focus on student success. As more educational institutions move to the cloud, it is important for our customers to be able to identify specialized APN Partners to assist them in this segment. We are pleased to announce the AWS Education Competency, a recognition of the highest bar for AWS Partner Network (APN) Partners who provide solutions to meet the needs of education customers. AWS Education Competency Partners have demonstrated ... Read More