Tag: Amazon EC2

As customers look to innovate with the cloud, AWS is focused on helping organizations grow by enabling them to securely run a wide range of applications with price performance benefits. AMD-powered instances are integral to these offerings, and with AMD’s announcement of fourth-generation AMD EPYC processors AWS plans to offer Amazon EC2 instances powered by the newly-introduced processors. These instances will expand customer choice of compute options available on EC2.

Federated learning (FL) addresses the need of preserving privacy while having access to large datasets for machine learning model training. The NVIDIA FLARE (which stands for Federated Learning Application Runtime Environment) platform provides an open-source Python SDK for collaborative computation and offers privacy-preserving FL workflows at scale. NVIDIA is an AWS Competency Partner that has pioneered accelerated computing to tackle challenges in AI and computer graphics.

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.

To reduce the technical complexity and manual processes needed to build pipelines that meet various security policies, Fivetran offers flexible connection options to securely and reliably move enterprise data from source to destination. Fivetran runs on AWS and can support customers syncing data from databases and to destinations hosted on AWS, including the Amazon Redshift data warehouse. Integration with AWS PrivateLink also allows customers to send data without using the public internet.

Enterprises require the ability to be proactive on modern governance challenges. The difficulty is knowing what data you have, where it’s located, its business value or risk to the organization, and how it can be protected. The Smarsh Enterprise Platform enables companies to capture, retain, analyze, and act on the “signals” in communications that are most critical to the business. These include compliance and brand risks and may expand to include security threats, cultural indicators, untapped revenue opportunities, and more.

Explore a migration where Vix Technology partnered with AWS ProServe and Stromasys, an AWS Migration and Modernization Competency Partner, to successfully migrating over 100 applications, including both x86 and SUN SPARC Solaris mission-critical workloads within nine months before a data center contract renewal with near-zero customer impact. Vix’s key business drivers for migration were to move to a more secure, cost effective, and resilient environment.

For many organizations, the cloud is considered a key enabler to purposeful digital transformations. The process of moving applications, data, and infrastructure to AWS with minimal impact on operational continuity, low risk, and reduced cost is the key to a well-defined migration strategy. LTI’s Infinity AppLens is a re-engineering assistant solution that identifies complexities and assesses the cloud readiness of application portfolios to coin an efficient cloud modernization roadmap.

We are excited to highlight 112 AWS Partners that received new designations in September for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Provectus, an AWS Premier Tier Services Partner with the Data and Analytics Competency, helps clients resolve issues of their legacy, on-premises data platforms by implementing best practices for the migration and optimization of Amazon EMR workloads. This post examines the challenges organizations face along the path to a successful migration, and explores best practices for re-architecting and migrating on-premises data platforms to AWS

Large enterprise customers depend heavily on commercial off the shelf (COTS) products for scheduling jobs or running batch jobs, but these COTS products are often not cloud-native which prevents them from taking advantage of the various cloud services. Learn how Resolution Life US collaborated with Cognizant and AWS to modernize its on-premises third-party enterprise job scheduler with an event-driven custom scheduler solution using Amazon FSx, AWS Step Functions, Amazon EventBridge, and AWS Lambda.