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The AWS Shared Responsibility Model requires security architects to take proactive measures to detect and prevent zero-day risks and other malware at the perimeter of their network. Learn about the potential risks associated with cloud applications that handle file uploads and transfers, and explore best practices to help mitigate. This post provides guidance on modern threat prevention technologies such as OPSWAT MetaDefender that help augment and automate cybersecurity defense.

Many organizations are adopting data lakes to handle large volumes of data, and flexible pipelines to fit the needs of consuming services and teams (machine learning, business intelligence, and analytics). In this post, we’ll explore the modern data lake and how Fivetran can help accelerate time-to-value with HAQM S3 and Apache Iceberg. Fivetran offers pre-built connectors for 300+ data sources and employs ETL to land data in the warehouse or data lake.

As the world grows, concerns over pollution and climate change are forcing businesses to redesign how they produce and use energy. A notable approach for achieving this objective is through informing end users of their power usage patterns. Learn how IBM’s anomaly detection solution for energy and utilities helps companies increase energy efficiency leveraging a personalized AI paradigm and to calculate ESG metrics related to energy consumption.

Sapphire Systems is an AWS Partner and leading digital operating transformation provider that has made great strides in the expansion of its software and service offerings, and has collaborated with leading players such as AWS and SAP. Learn how Sapphire started an ambitious program to migrate to AWS and exit its two physical data centers in the UK. The migration, which had a large SAP Business One component, leveraged the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP) framework and investments.

Totogi is an AWS Partner that provides a Charging-as-a-Service platform that benefits from deployment on AWS and helps customers reduce the electricity used for their online charging system. In this post, we’ll compare the Totogi charging platform’s energy and carbon-emissions efficiency to traditional charging platforms, and investigate architectural patterns that telcos and other businesses can replicate to reduce their carbon footprint.

One of the biggest cloud security concerns is the lack of visibility and control over sensitive data. Learn about the need for multi-dimensional visibility into infrastructure resources, applications and user behavior, and the data associated with them, and how Solvo’s Data Posture Manager uses this approach to provide contextual, adaptive cloud security. Solvo is an AWS Partner whose platform provides contextual, application, and data-aware cloud infrastructure security.

Managing software development activities can be complex for enterprises, especially with the need for a single dashboard that provides insights into business, process, and people-centric metrics. Apexon’s COMPASS solution leverages machine learning to capture and integrate continuous data and intelligence across the software development lifecycle, providing a comprehensive view of resource performance and its impact on KPIs.

Ness Digital Engineering works with organizations to ensure AWS infrastructure supports strategic initiatives. In this post, we outline an approach for enterprises seeking a mechanism to align cloud costs with their business value. We’ll discuss various change management challenges that such efforts may encounter and share ways to address them, and explore how a robust FinOps function can solve chronic issues that plague cloud cost management at large enterprises.

IBM’s watsonx is an artificial intelligence and data platform designed to scale and accelerate the impact of AI with trusted data. As a part of watsonx, IBM has launched watsonx.data, which enables customers to scale analytics and AI with a fit-for-purpose data store, built on an open lakehouse architecture. It provides querying, governance, and open data formats for easy data access and sharing. Customers can connect to their data within minutes, gain trusted insights quickly, and reduce data warehouse costs.

Traditional security approaches are often unable to detect and stop complex API attacks. It was for exactly this purpose that Salt Security was established in 2018. Salt’s founders have a unique patent to use big data and AI/ML that allows Salt to spearhead the growing industry of dedicated API security solutions. Learn how the Salt Security platform allows for the analysis of API traffic that exposes complex attacks, including those identified in the OWASP API Security Top 10 list.