Category: DynamoDB

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: 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: Kate Miller. Every month or so I work with our awesome Emerging Partner SA team to highlight the technical innovations we’re seeing from a range of APN Technology Partners. This month, we’re going to hear from Partner SAs Ian Scofield,  Juan Villa, and Erin McGill, as well as Partner Development Rep Makda Tesfa-George, who discuss solutions from APN Technology Partners Cesanta, Fugue, Bright Wolf, and FittedCloud!Cesanta, by Juan Villa Writing or porting real-time operating systems for different hardware platforms can be a complicated, lengthy, and error-prone process. Cesanta, an IoT software engineering company ... Read More

Feed: AWS Startup Collection - Medium. Author: AWS Startups. By Brent Rabowsky, Startup Solutions Architect, AWSWelcome to the second post in this two-part series about building serverless architectures on AWS, with emphasis on using Java 8 together with AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB. In the first post , I focused on data modeling with DynamoDB. Careful attention to data modeling before you start coding helps ensure that your back end service is architected for optimal performance.In this post, I continue the discussion by presenting an implementation of a back end service to support the example use case of the first post ... Read More

Feed: AWS Startup Collection - Medium. Author: AWS Startups. By Brent Rabowsky, Startup Solutions Architect, AWSIn a startup or any other company that must do fast prototyping and frequent production releases, serverless architectures that eliminate the need to deploy and manage servers provide a substantial development speed boost. In this blog post series, I describe a serverless architecture for a common use case on AWS: a Java-based API backed by Amazon DynamoDB as its data store. By using AWS Lambda to implement the API together with DynamoDB, you don’t have to deploy or manage servers for either the application tier ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. BI and analytics are at the top of corporate agendas. Competition is intense, and, more than ever, organizations are demanding faster access to insights about their customers, markets, and internal operations to make better decisions. However, they are also facing challenges in powering real-time business analytics and systems of engagement. Analytic applications and systems of engagement need to be fast and consistent, but traditional database approaches, including RDBMS and first-generation NoSQL solutions, can be challenging to maintain, and costly, according to Aerospike CTO and co-founder Brian Bulkowski.In Bulkowski's view, companies should aim ... Read More

Feed: Database Trends and Applications : All Articles. The second day of Data Summit 2017 began by focusing on the current state of big data analytics as it meets information governance.The keynote was presented by Linda G. Sharp, associate general counsel at ZL Technologies, and Bennett B. Borden, chief data scientist at Drinker Biddle & Reath.Their session, titled “Information Governance Meets Big Data Analytics” underscored the importance of maximizing the value of information while minimizing risks and costs.Analytics in the marketplace is being used to determine trends regarding how people use things and what they like in order to gain ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Tod Golding. Tod Golding is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS. He is focused on SaaS. The move to a software as a service (SaaS) delivery model is often motivated by a fundamental need for greater agility and customer responsiveness. SaaS providers often succeed and thrive based on their ability to rapidly release new features without compromising the stability of their solutions. Achieving this level of agility starts with a commitment to building a robust DevOps pipeline that includes a rich collection of automated tests. For SaaS providers, these automated tests are at ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Ian Scofield. Ian Scofield is a Partner Solutions Architect (SA) at AWS. In a previous post in our series, we showed how to use an AWS CloudFormation launch stack URL to help customers create a cross-account role in their AWS account. As mentioned in an earlier APN Blog post, a cross-account role is the recommended method to enable access to a customer account for partner integrations, and creating the role using a CloudFormation template instead of following a long series of manual steps can reduce failure rates and improve the customer onboarding experience. In ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Kate Miller. Introduction by Terry Wise, Global Vice President, Channels & Alliances at AWSWhat can your data do for you? More importantly, how can insights derived from your data help you drive additional value for end customers? Our APN partners offer services and solutions that complement what AWS has to offer. As an example, many customers are choosing to build a data lake on AWS. NorthBay is a Big Data Competency Consulting partner that helped architect and implement a data lake on AWS for Eliza Corporation. You can read details of the solution ... Read More