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Cisco Security Cloud uses Anchore to achieve FedRAMP compliance for its cloud solutions. Anchore integrates with Cisco's AWS CodePipeline, Amazon ECR registry, and Amazon EKS to scan containers throughout the pipeline, enforcing vulnerability policies. Its integration allowed Cisco to expand Anchore to Amazon ECS and generate software bill of materials for the cybersecurity executive order. The comprehensive Anchore solution on AWS strengthened Cisco's regulated security posture.

Organizations face increasing demands for transparency around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) matters. PwC's Unified Sustainability Hub helps access and manage ESG data, providing automated data ingestion, a centralized view of sustainability performance, intelligent data extraction, carbon accounting, reporting/analytics, forecasting capabilities, and a generative AI assistant. It accelerates sustainability transitions by integrating stakeholders, processes, and standards.

We are excited to highlight 135 AWS Partners that received new or renewed specializations in March 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.

Business intelligence (BI) teams aim to automate Amazon QuickSight asset deployment across environments. CyberCX developed a solution using AWS Step Functions to orchestrate exporting QuickSight analyses from one environment and importing them to another, simplifying migration. This reusable module integrates with CyberCX's broader serverless data platform but can standalone. The entire solution is designed with security in mind and follows the principles of least privilege access.

As organizations migrate applications to the cloud, they need tools to assess application portfolios for cloud readiness. CAST Highlight provides automated analysis of custom applications, identifying issues like outdated code, cloud migration blockers, and opportunities for cloud-native services. By integrating with AWS Migration Hub Journeys, CAST offers a template to orchestrate analysis of large portfolios across teams to accelerate cloud migration and modernization initiatives.

TextRay is an information extraction solution that automatically extracts data from scanned documents using deep learning models. It leverages AWS services to provide a scalable and cost-effective way to process documents while reducing errors and turnaround time. An AWS CloudFormation template simplifies deployment, while a pre-trained base model demonstrates TextRay's precision in extracting tabular and form data into structured CSV outputs.

Amazon Q and generative BI are transforming business operations, and AWS Partners like ZS Associates, Tiger Analytics, and Compass UOL are pioneering use cases leveraging these technologies to build industry-tailored solutions that improve decision making, operations, fraud detection, software development lifecycles, and more. AWS provides resources to help partners develop and deploy such transformative generative AI offerings.

The Amazon Athena Teradata Connector enables Athena to query data in Teradata Vantage using SQL, and comprises two AWS Lambda functions for metadata and record reading. This post describes deploying the connector, creating a Lambda layer for the Teradata JDBC driver, and running queries on Teradata from Athena, including a federated query joining Teradata and S3 data. This provides a scalable, serverless way to analyze data across different data stores without data duplication.

Connecting IoT devices securely to the cloud can be complex, but AWS IoT ExpressLink simplifies this by providing connectivity modules with built-in security from AWS Partners. Cardinal Peak used these modules to accelerate IoT product prototyping, avoiding hardware redesigns, simplifying firmware, using pre-installed certificates, streamlining manufacturing, and enabling efficient cloud onboarding. Overall, AWS IoT ExpressLink helped Cardinal Peak save over 6 months of engineering time.

NextBillion.ai provides mapping solutions for enterprises, aiming to deliver precise estimated time of arrival (ETA). It developed ENZYME, a system leveraging AWS services like Amazon SageMaker to evaluate map quality and improve ETA accuracy through machine learning. By feeding industry data into custom models, ENZYME reduces the mean absolute percentage error between estimated and actual arrival times by 10-20% compared to regular maps.

nOps Compute Copilot extends the capabilities of the open-source Karpenter Kubernetes cluster autoscaler, adding awareness of your AWS compute commitments like Reserved Instances and Savings Plans. It also analyzes Amazon EC2 Spot pricing data and termination risk to intelligently select the most cost-effective and stable Spot Instances for workloads. nOps automatically manages your Karpenter configurations, updating NodePools based on its cost optimization analysis and recommendations.

Companies often need to securely share digital resources when collaborating, and the extranet provides a mechanism for this using cloud platforms like AWS. Alkira's Extranet-as-a-Service (EaaS) solution enables secure global connectivity, network segmentation, NAT for overlapping IPs, and integrated security for partner access to AWS applications. Alkira reinvents networking for the cloud era and allows enterprises to build networks with cloud-like speed, agility, and scale.

As data volumes grow, visibility into key metrics becomes crucial for optimizing reliability, performance, and cost. Pariveda's observability solution leverages AWS services to build operational dashboards displaying AWS Glue job details like runtimes, status, and computational load. By unlocking deeper insights, users can pinpoint optimization opportunities, troubleshoot issues faster, and drive greater efficiency across their data pipelines as workloads scale.

Using the AWS console to manage cloud infrastructure can be convenient and user-friendly, especially for beginners or small projects. Yet, it also carries inherent challenges when used at scale. In this post, we will dive deep into how ControlMonkey can assist you with transitioning manually-created environments to an Infrastructure as Code approach, integrating seamlessly with GitOps and Hashicorp Terraform.

Generative AI adoption is rapidly growing to meet the massive data needs of modern machine learning models. Manually labeling data can be time-consuming but AWS has collaborated with Datasaur to offer solutions addressing data labeling challenges using generative AI. Datasaur's NLP Platform automates annotation tasks and integrates with AWS services, and its LLM Labs evaluates large language models' performance and cost for labeling.

Securing PII can be challenging with data scattered across repositories, as organizations often struggle to maintain robust security and compliance measures. Skyflow's Data Privacy Vault, available on AWS Marketplace, delivers security, compliance, and data residency for AWS workloads by isolating and tokenizing sensitive data. It integrates with Cloud Storage Security to automatically scan uploaded files for malware, further protecting infrastructure and easing sensitive file management.

In today's industrial landscape, smart manufacturing is pivotal for sustainability and efficiency gains. However, organizations face challenges in gathering and consolidating data from multiple, often outdated sources on the manufacturing floor. LTIMindtree's AWS-powered Digital Command Center (DCC) solution addresses this by enabling data acquisition, management, real-time KPI monitoring, and analytics-driven insights.

Learn how to apply the AWS Cloud Adoption Framework (AWS CAF) security perspective to VMware Cloud on AWS. This post covers the shared responsibility model between VMware, AWS, and the customer across areas like security governance, access management, threat detection, vulnerability management, and incident response. Understanding these distinct scopes is critical for maintaining a strong security and compliance posture when using VMware Cloud on AWS.

Cisco Duo integrates with AWS to establish and maintain zero-trust security. It helps to eliminate surface area through strict access policies, evaluate risk signals to require step-up authentication, and establish device trust through posture checks and compliance enforcement. Learn now to configure Duo's policies that enable risk-based authentication, deploy Duo Desktop for device trust, and integrate Duo with AWS via SAML and OpenID Connect to protect AWS services and applications.

Deloitte and AWS have expanded their collaboration to help organizations worldwide migrate to the cloud. Deloitte will invest in AWS Centers of Excellence, hiring over 800 AWS specialists across Sub-Saharan Africa, Spain, and Central Europe, providing cloud consulting, training, innovation labs, and managed services to empower digital transformations. This strategic agreement leverages Deloitte's industry expertise and AWS's leading cloud capabilities to overcome adoption barriers.