Category: Compute

Organizations can achieve robust cloud network security by combining Arista Network Detection and Response (NDR) with AWS traffic mirroring. This provides deep packet inspection and threat monitoring without disrupting traffic flow. Arista’s AI-driven NDR platform maps the attack surface and detects threats across networks. The solution automates enabling traffic mirroring as AWS instances spin up/down, ensuring seamless security coverage in dynamic environments.

SaaS relies on the cloud for efficient delivery, but faces data challenges like tenant isolation, high storage costs, and compliance requirements. Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP solves these by providing multi-tenancy, storage efficiencies, persistent Kubernetes storage, and more. It enables SaaS providers to enhance agility while managing data availability, protection, security and costs. Arcesium reduced dev/test refreshes by 80% and overall costs by 46% using FSx for ONTAP.

The Synopsys.ai electronic design automation (EDA) suite on AWS harnesses AI to optimize chip design. A key component is Synopsys DSO.ai, using reinforcement learning to enhance power, performance, and area. Benefits include faster optimization, better engineer productivity, design reuse, and faster process node migration. Deploying on AWS ParallelCluster provides auto-scaling, elasticity, and fast setup for massive EDA workloads. Testing showed 20% lower power, timing closure improvements, and significant cost savings.

Managing cloud costs is complex without enterprise-wide visibility, and FinOps provides financial accountability to maximize investments. Kyndryl’s approach to FinOps on AWS emphasizes transparent visibility for cultural transformation through continuous optimization, cost attribution, savings recommendations, anomaly detection, and role-based access across hybrid clouds. Customers can expect up to 30% savings through Kyndryl’s cost optimization expertise.

Amazon EC2 Mac instances provide Apple hardware to develop for iOS and macOS at scale. Dependencies for building apps require privileged access, normally needing manual user approval. By enrolling EC2 Macs into Mobile Device Management (MDM) with Jamf Pro, administrators can automate remote configuration and software deployment without per-instance interaction. After launching an instance and installing required profiles with Jamf, users should create an AMI to retain the instance state.

Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) allow quick deployment of EC2 instances, but managing multiple customized AMIs is complex. Stratus10’s Image Management Solution automates and streamlines AMI building, testing, and deployment using EC2 Image Builder. It provides consistency, integrates with current processes, reduces costs, and improves security. By eliminating manual processes, engineering teams can focus on innovation while hardened images ensure best practices.

Leveraging AWS Lambda response streaming functionality enables progressive data delivery from large datasets, enhancing web application performance. This post compares a traditional API implementation to a Lambda streaming API, demonstrating reduced time-to-first-byte latency and quicker, more dynamic client-side rendering. By incrementally sending data, response streaming eliminates lag from waiting on entire dataset transfers, vastly improving user experience for data-intensive applications.

Noventiq developed uDMS, a smart document management system hosted on AWS serverless architecture that removes the need to manage servers while ensuring scalability, cost-efficiency, and global accessibility. uDMS offers easy document tracking, metadata templating, workflow notifications, version control, and integrates well with other systems. It demonstrates how a serverless architecture can enable rapid deployment and modernization of legacy document management systems.

MemVerge Memory Machine Cloud (MMCloud) enables running bioinformatics pipelines cost-effectively on Amazon EC2 Spot instances. It seamlessly integrates with Nextflow pipelines through the nf-float plugin and simplifies migrating on-premises pipelines to the AWS cloud. Learn how Columbia University and MDI Biological Laboratory leveraged MMCloud to run intensive genomic analyses at 50-80% lower cost by utilizing spot instances.

Social media is an integral part of everyday life as billions use it to connect, share, and find entertainment. Hootsuite provides businesses with a secure, scalable platform to manage social media across channels, analyze performance, and deliver customer care. By leveraging AWS services, Hootsuite offers robust tools to help brands economically manage their digital footprint, better understand their audience, and optimize their social media investments.