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Take an in-depth view of the cloud migration and data platform modernization process for Flipboard, which engaged Mactores Cognition for a thorough assessment of the self-managed platform and help migrating existing data workloads to a fully managed Amazon EMR serverless big data platform. The process streamlined Flipboard’s distributed database capabilities, allowing the social media platform to support user spikes at scale, maximize throughput performance, and prepare to expand the user base exponentially.

Learn how the Heimdall Database Proxy can be configured to provide customer query routing for Amazon RDS for Postgres, although any SQL database type including Amazon Redshift can be supported. This provides a single Heimdall Proxy endpoint to access data for multiple customers from multiple databases, transparently. Heimdall Data provides functionality needed to support many complex database environments, and solves many of the challenges in scaling database access.

Featurization is one of the most difficult problems in machine learning. Learn how graph features engineered in Neo4j can be used in a supervised learning model trained with Amazon SageMaker. These novel graph features can improve model performance beyond what’s possible with more traditional approaches. Together, these components offer a graph platform that can be used to understand graph data and operationalize graph use cases.

The modern API lifecycle does not end once your CI/CD pipeline pushes a deployment to production and the API becomes available to clients. They still have to access documentation, try out different parts of the API, or get notifications about changes. API developer portals have become standard for businesses offering APIs to their partners and end users. Learn how to integrate ReadMe.com with Amazon API Gateway to make sure your documentation is up to date and gets changed every time you change the API.

Most applications require a form of identity service to manage, authenticate, and authorize users. In SaaS applications, multi-tenancy adds specific challenges to this task. To meet these needs, SaaS builders must consider integrating with an identity service provider. AWS services such as Amazon Cognito or AWS Partner services like Auth0 provide deep expertise in the field and allow you to focus on your SaaS application’s value proposition while relying on a secure, feature-rich identity provider.

A digital journey is of strategic importance for many organizations, and digital transformation enabled by cloud technologies has increased efficiency and raised productivity with improved stakeholder experiences. To achieve these outcomes, transformation initiatives need to be holistic, interlinked, and inclusive. Learn how to supercharge customer experiences and make your contact center future-ready by leveraging HCLTech’s Fluid Contact Center Intelligence (Fluid CCI) and AWS AI/ML services.

Cloud security is the top priority at AWS and the security partner ecosystem plays a critical role in building and executing security capabilities. Learn how Infopercept is leveraging Shuffle, an open-source general purpose security automation platform that can be used for building security playbooks. The key elements of Shuffle are ease of integration with AWS services, as well as open source-like integration with Yara malware analysis.

Multi-region architectures improve latency for applications with global user bases and optimize RTO across the broadest set of potential failure events. However, creating and maintaining these architectures can add significant cost and complexity. Learn how to build and deploy a multi-region serverless application while minimizing cost and complexity using AWS Step Functions and Fauna, an AWS Partner and distributed document-relational database delivered as a cloud API.

Federation using SAML 2.0 enables customers to use their existing external IdP and avoid managing multiple sources of identities when accessing AWS accounts. This post builds on the recommendation of using regional SAML endpoints for failover by showing how you can configure Okta‘s federation with IAM to increase its availability. Learn how to configure Okta, an AWS Security Competency Partner, to utilize multiple regional AWS SAML sign-in endpoints that can be deployed at setup by the Okta admin.

Since the release of Amazon EC2 Mac instances, AWS customers have been able to access on-demand Apple Mac devices in the AWS Cloud. In collaboration with Jamf, an AWS Partner and leader in Apple device management, AWS has developed integration between the Amazon EC2 Mac instances and Jamf Pro to simplify managing, securing, and configuring EC2 Mac instances. Learn how to configure AWS and Jamf accounts to automatically enroll EC2 Mac into Jamf Pro EC2 Mac instances when they are launched.