The most optimal cloud deployment model can significantly impact digital businesses. Understanding public, private, hybrid, and multi-cloud options is crucial for informed decision-making. Factors such as security, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and existing IT infrastructure influence the selection process. Partnering with an experienced cloud software development company can provide expert assistance for optimal deployment.
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How EverQuote Underwent a Serverless Transformation using AWS
EverQuote, a leading online insurance marketplace, faced challenges modernizing their primary website to drive innovation and customer experience improvements. After evaluating architectural options, they transitioned to a powerful serverless infrastructure using AWS Lambda and other AWS services. This transformation resulted in significant performance improvements, a 7-11% increase in conversion rates, and approximately 400% cost savings.
Deploying an EMR cluster on AWS Outposts to process data from an on-premises database
This post introduces deploying an Amazon EMR cluster on AWS Outposts to process data from an on-premises database. By leveraging local network communications and VPC endpoints, organizations can satisfy regulatory requirements while benefiting from the agility of cloud services. This architecture eliminates the need to transfer data to the cloud, ensuring compliance and efficiency.
Security Best Practices for GenAI Applications (OpenAI) in Azure
The content discusses best practices for securing GenAI applications in Azure, particularly focusing on Azure OpenAI. It emphasizes the importance of protecting data integrity, network security, access and identity security, application security, and governance security. These best practices include data classification, encryption, network segmentation, RBAC, multi-factor authentication, secure coding, and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements. The document provides a comprehensive overview of security considerations for GenAI applications in Azure.
Amazon ECS supports a native integration with Amazon EBS volumes for data-intensive workloads
Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) now integrates with Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), enabling easier running of various data processing workloads. You can provision EBS storage for ECS tasks running on AWS Fargate and Amazon EC2 without managing storage or compute, supporting high-performance, low-cost storage, the AWS service announcement confirmed.
Using Azure Application Gateway to map custom domain names to Private Endpoint enabled PaaS services
Azure Application Gateway is a versatile web traffic load balancer offering control over application traffic. The new Private Application Gateway allows deploying the gateway without a frontend IP configuration, enhancing traffic routing. It’s especially beneficial for the financial sector, offering solutions for routing requests through proxies and mapping custom domain names to Azure Private Endpoint enabled PaaS services.
How Zurich Insurance Group built their Scalable Account Vending process using AWS Account Factory for Terraform
Zurich Insurance Group, a global insurer, embarked on a digital transformation in 2022 by migrating 1,000 workloads to AWS. They established a Global Cloud Foundation to address migration challenges and adopted Scalable Account Vending (SAV) to standardize AWS environments. SAV streamlined account provisioning, improved scalability, and enhanced compliance, resulting in efficient resource management.
Using generative infrastructure as code with Application Composer
AWS Application Composer, available in the AWS Management Console and VS Code IDE with the AWS Toolkit, integrates generative AI to facilitate infrastructure as code (IaC) creation for over 1100 AWS CloudFormation resources. Users can benefit from AI-generated suggestions, validation against CloudFormation schema, and faster application development. For more information, visit the provided URLs.
From Planning to Execution – Harnessing AWS Migration Hub Journeys to Accelerate Migrations and Modernization
McKinsey research highlights increasing cloud budgets and migration plans. AWS Migration Hub Journeys offers structured guidance for AWS migration, streamlining complex processes and promoting collaboration. Templates, phases, tasks, and subtasks provide tailored support, reducing time and costs. The tool’s flexibility and systematic approach aim to optimize the migration and modernization journey for efficient AWS migrations.
What is Azure Policy: All You Need to Know
Azure Policy is a vital service within Microsoft Azure, enabling organizations to create, assign, and manage policies to ensure compliance and security. It involves two key components – policies and initiatives, and spans across various scopes like management groups, subscriptions, resource groups, and individual resources. This comprehensive tool ensures resource consistency, regulatory compliance, and enhanced security.
Custom Post-launch actions and Deployment scripting using AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CodeWhisperer
This series explores Blue/Green testing and deployment on AWS, emphasizing flexibility and control. Part 1 delves into live replication with AWS MGN and post-launch actions with AWS SSM Agent. Part 2 introduces custom post-launch actions and scripting with Amazon CodeWhisperer, streamlining software development with AI-enabled code suggestions. This empowers users to efficiently manage AWS resources and stay ahead in fast-paced software development.
Enabling data clean rooms with confidential computing
This content discusses the potential of data collaboration in a landscape of rapid data clean room adoption and the challenges faced by heavily regulated industries. It highlights the use cases in financial services and healthcare, the architecture and components involved in the solution, the considerations, security measures, and cost optimization.
How to centralize CloudWatch Alarms with Amazon EventBridge and AWS CloudFormation
Amazon CloudWatch streamlines monitoring and notifications for workload health. Users can create alarms to monitor metrics and receive notifications when thresholds are breached. This post details how to centralize CloudWatch alarms in a multi-account environment using Amazon EventBridge and AWS CloudFormation, providing an overview and CloudFormation StackSet deployment steps. Additionally, it offers guidance on cost, cleanup, and next steps.
Navigating the hybrid horizon: HPE GreenLake’s journey in the era of multicloud strategies
The article discusses the growing trend of blending private, on-premises, and public cloud solutions in the enterprise technology landscape, with a focus on HPE GreenLake’s hybrid-cloud strategy. It also highlights the company’s recent developments and collaborations, indicating the increasing role of artificial intelligence. Despite challenges, HPE’s future evolution for GreenLake remains promising.