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Fraud Detection for the FinServ Industry with Redis Enterprise Cloud on AWS
In the financial services industry, detecting fraud is a complex process. For any given transaction or activity, the system needs to decide whether it’s fraudulent or not and take action within seconds. With Redis Enterprise Cloud‘s sub-millisecond latency speeds, up to five 9’s of availability, linear scalability, and multiple data model support coupled with the global cloud infrastructure support of AWS, organizations can benefit from building a real-time fraud detection system to manage and control fraud.
Automate AWS Architecture Reviews Using CloudCheckr’s Well-Architected Readiness Advisor
SMBs with limited resources are often challenged with time and resource constraints to perform AWS Well-Architected Reviews on a regular basis. CloudCheckr CMx gives you the visibility and intelligence you need to lower costs, maintain security and compliance, and optimize resources in single or multi-cloud infrastructure. CloudCheckr’s Well-Architected Readiness Advisor report leverages the AWS Well-Architected Tool to map CloudCheckr’s best practice checks to the 6 pillars of AWS Well-Architected.
DXC Technology Enables End-to-End Tracing for Microservice Architecture Using AWS X-Ray
When a DXC Technology customer wanted a complete view of requests traveling through an application so they could compare trace sets with different conditions, DXC deployed distributed tracing using AWS X-Ray. This helped monitor and debug distributed applications within the workflow to aid in swift identification of performance issues or errors. Explore the solution’s reference architecture and follow a step-by-step how to enable AWS X-Ray for different AWS products.
Simplify and Secure Terraform Workflows on AWS with Dynamic Provider Credentials
The HashiCorp Terraform AWS provider has surpassed more than one billion downloads, and every single Terraform apply starts with a provider credentials setup. The new dynamic provider credentials feature offers the ability to generate dynamic, short-lived credentials for Terraform Cloud runs using OIDC. This feature is now available for all Terraform Cloud tiers. Terraform Cloud is HashiCorp’s managed service offering and eliminates the heavy lifting for practitioners, teams, and organizations to use Terraform in production.
SaaS Data Isolation with Dynamic Credentials Using HashiCorp Vault in Amazon EKS
Tenant data isolation is a core SaaS concept, verifying that tenant resources remain in isolated environments. There are a number of ways to achieve this isolation, and one common approach is to use a token vending machine that issues tenant-scoped credentials at runtime. Explore an alternate approach to vending tokens that uses Amazon EKS and open-source HashiCorp Vault, simplifying access to the credentials and streamlining the overall management of tenant-scoped policies.
Using OpsWatch to Create a Single Pane of Prometheus Metrics from Multiple Non-Native Sources
Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit which many companies and organizations have adopted. OpsWatch from Arvato Systems helps to bridge the gap between Prometheus native and non-native Amazon CloudWatch metrics and Amazon GuardDuty events. OpsWatch does this by consuming metrics, transforming and enriching them. They can be displayed in dashboards and/or trigger alerts. This gives the operator a single pane of Prometheus with powerful monitoring capabilities.
Understanding Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda Event Source Mapping for Efficient Message Processing
To make the best use of an Amazon SQS and AWS Lambda integration using event source mapping, it’s important to understand how the integration works. The SQS-Lambda integration is a powerful feature, and for small to medium-sized queues you don’t have to think much about the integration as it works out of the box. Serverless Guru is an AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner that helps companies build, migrate, and train teams on AWS serverless development.
Expanding VMware Cloud on AWS Multi-Region Connectivity Using AWS Cloud WAN
VMware Cloud on AWS customers have requirements to interconnect their SDDCs across different AWS regions, but existing network design patterns require you to build a full-mesh topology with static routing to provide multi-region connectivity for SDDCs. Learn how AWS Cloud WAN helps address VMware Cloud on AWS multi-region connectivity challenges and requirements, and review a reference architecture with a real example for integrating VMware Cloud on AWS with AWS Cloud WAN.
Building a Solution for China Cross-Border VPC Connection
Many customers want to connect commercial regions to the China regions, but China’s compliance and infrastructure requirements are different than other countries. It requires isolation between VPCs in the China regions and VPCs in the other global regions. Learn about a solution that enables cross-border connectivity between six AWS commercial regions and China regions using a third-party marketplace solution that relies on AWS Direct Connect partners.
Automate Your Cloud Storage Security with AWS and IBC S6 from Ionburst
Ionburst in an AWS Partner that was founded in 2018 on the underlying principle that data privacy is a human right. Its mission is to provide data privacy as part of the cloud, not only as a default posture but as the only posture. Learn how Ionburst Cloud’s private-by-default storage solution, called IBC S6 (Simple Secure Sovereign Scalable Storage Service), is helping customers take advantage of Amazon S3 whilst reducing risk due to misconfiguration or malice.