This article introduces a solution for secure and privacy-compliant collaboration on sensitive data in the media and advertising industry. It leverages Data Clean Rooms powered by Confidential Computing, offering a secure workflow for joint analysis while ensuring data confidentiality. The architecture utilizes various Azure services, highlighting compliance, control, and potential use cases in a cost-effective manner.
ISVs are increasingly adopting multi-cloud strategies, leveraging the capabilities of platforms like Azure, AWS, and GCP to cater to diverse customer needs. This trend helps enhance scalability, security, and flexibility of services. However, challenges such as management complexity, data transfer and latency, and security compliance exist. Effective solutions range from automation tools to unified security management. Emphasis is given to database deployment models and technology choices for multi-cloud and multi-tenant SaaS solutions in a dynamic market.
Implementing digital transformation is key for businesses to remain competitive. Modernization, or updating legacy systems with new technologies, is a focal strategy. This blog discusses how the Amazon VPC Lattice service aids modernization efforts for monolithic applications. It simplifies networking structures, improves developer productivity, aids in application deployment practices, and can potentially lower operational costs. Understanding this service is useful for companies dealing with complex cloud environments and planning to modernize their digital infrastructures.
The blog post discusses the modernization of WebLogic Monolith applications to AWS cloud native applications. It details various migration strategies and steps to rehost, refactor or lift-and-shift these applications to the cloud. Key components of WebLogic and their AWS equivalents, such as Load Balancer, Queue Features or Database Connection Pooling, are provided. The goal of modernization is to achieve increased agility, reduced operational costs, and improved response to market changes.
Control planes are critical in software as a service (SaaS) and multitenant solutions, facilitating scalable management. Key components include a tenant catalog and processes for managing environmental changes. Control plane design options range from manual, suitable for fewer tenants, to low-code and fully custom solutions that provide more automation and scalability. The choice depends on operational overhead, frequency of lifecycle events, implementation complexity, and management responsibility. Hybrid and gradual implementation can also be considered.
Microsoft offers two complementary frameworks, the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and the Well-Architected Framework (WAF), to help businesses successfully transition to Azure. The CAF offers a comprehensive guide for businesses to confidently navigate cloud adoption, while the WAF provides best practices for implementing reliable, secure, and cost-effective cloud-based solutions. Together, they can help businesses avoid common pitfalls in cloud migration and optimize investments for maximum value, ultimately facilitating innovation and growth in the digital landscape.
This blog post outlines best practices for designing a disaster recovery strategy for remote enterprises using AWS, specifically the Snowball Edge device. Critical workloads should be identified and architected to run both in the cloud and locally. The differences in foundational capabilities between cloud and local sites, as well as data replication strategies, need to be accounted for. Redundancy within the local site and well-thought-out operations and maintenance plan are crucial. The aim is to harness cloud’s power even in remote locations with limited connectivity.
OpenTelemetry is a merger of OpenTracing and OpenCensus, providing APIs, libraries, and agents for capturing and managing telemetry data in cloud-native software. Key features include language-agnostic instrumentation, manual and automatic instrumentation, integration with existing tools, and customizable framework. It can be used for application performance monitoring, distributed tracing in microservices architectures, resource and network monitoring. Effectiveness in cloud monitoring involves implementing effective instrumentation, utilizing context propagation, optimizing data collection, and establishing alerting and anomaly detection.
The blog post discusses using Amazon CodeWhisperer for writing and deploying code for custom CloudWatch dashboards for AWS. Highlighting the AI software’s capability to provide real-time code suggestions in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), the authors explain how users can utilize it to create, configure, and deploy widgets, Lambda functions, and even manage resources like S3 buckets. The walkthrough underscores the ease of using AI-aided coding to streamline the software development and infrastructure management process.
AWS has launched re:Post Private, a managed service aimed at promoting cloud adoption and increasing collaboration by providing tailored technical resources. This version of re:Post, which is private to an organization and its AWS account team, aids the development of an internal cloud community of practice. The service also offers encryption for data transit and storage and includes features for knowledge management and AWS Support interaction.
This narrative provides guidance for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) stakeholders on using AWS Audit Manager to support compliance and risk assessments during technical due diligence. It highlights the implications of compliance on transaction success and the common challenges in M&A compliance due diligence. The AWS Audit Manager can automate processes, structure data, and facilitate stakeholder collaboration, ensuring efficient continuity in compliance, risk assessment, and innovation scaling.
The selection presents an in-depth discussion on the processes and benefits of converting a stateful application to a stateless one. Stateful applications save session data on servers for improved performance but are less scalable, while stateless applications, which do not preserve session data, cater to dynamic workloads and offer enhanced scalability and flexibility. Adopting a stateless architecture allows for greater scalability, reliability, cost-effectiveness, performance and extensibility. The article concludes stating that the choice of architecture depends on specific application needs.
AWS has publicly previewed its Integrated Application Test Kit (IATK), a software library designed to write automated tests for cloud-based applications. IATK simplifies locating resources for tests, creating test harnesses for event-driven architectures, and establishing service level agreements for asynchronous features. Currently supporting Python, IATK has future plans to support other languages. While enabling detailed testing through AWS X-Ray, IATK also efficiently manages communication between applications and features.
Subham Rakshit and Ismail Makhlouf, Senior Specialist Solutions Architects, discuss enabling Lambda functions from cross-account Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) clusters in a multi-account strategy for stream processing applications. The post outlines how Amazon MSK supports two deployment types and how multi-VPC private connectivity simplifies connections with Kafka consumers hosted on different accounts. It also provides a detailed implementation guide, including step-by-step instructions for setting up accounts and verifying output.
