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Cellular IoT offers reliable, low-power, wide-area connectivity and its rapid growth is driven by increasing connected device demand across industries. Producing IoT devices at scale requires months of preparation, and Semtech’s AirVantage Device Control leverages hardware roots of trust to enable zero-touch provisioning, seamlessly binding devices to AWS IoT Core. This lowers manufacturing costs through single global SKUs, improves security, and accelerates time-to-market by eliminating provisioning customization.

Enterprises are seeking mainframe modernization to drive efficiency, agility, and innovation. A Kyndryl survey revealed that 95% are migrating mainframe applications to the cloud, with 37% of workloads being relocated on average. Despite challenges like workforce shortage, businesses report increased profitability and millions in average annual savings through modernization. Kyndryl offers expertise, tools, and solutions to assist clients in navigating this complex journey seamlessly while enhancing operational efficiency.

With increasing cloud innovation, distributed teams need visibility into their deployed cloud resources, dependencies, and budgets when architecting new applications or reconfiguring existing solutions. Cloudcraft by Datadog helps companies achieve this cross-team alignment and enables teams to visualize and document architectures, analyze costs, run compliance audits through shareable diagrams, and automate diagram updates as infrastructure evolves.

Many enterprises still rely on the Adabas database and Natural programming language for critical workloads, facing rising license costs and a shrinking talent pool. To reduce reliance on these aging technologies and enable digital transformation, companies are modernizing to AWS with Advanced’s solutions. Advanced offers automated refactoring of Natural code to Java/C# and replatforming to execute Natural on Windows, along with migrating Adabas databases to modern relational databases.

Comprinno migrated a fitness app’s databases from Google Cloud to AWS to reduce costs. Challenges included migrating large PostgreSQL databases without downtime and accessing Google’s managed subnets. Comprinno established a VPN between clouds, used a SQL proxy to enable the AWS Database Migration Service, and parallelized data loading to meet the tight migration window. By moving to Graviton-based Amazon RDS, the customer reduced database costs by 30%.

Explore how LenelS2, a Carrier company, transformed its existing OnGuard thick-client application into a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution on AWS utilizing the multi-session feature of Amazon AppStream 2.0. With this approach, LenelS2 successfully streamed the OnGuard desktop application to users via the internet without the need to redesign the core application.

In the dynamic digital landscape, enterprises are embracing cloud computing for its scalability and high availability. As cloud migration becomes a strategic priority, efficient cloud management is crucial. Tech Mahindra’s iCOPS (Intelligent Cloud Operations and Subscription Management Services) is a comprehensive platform designed to streamline cloud operations, enhance security, and optimize costs on AWS. iCOPS automates tasks like provisioning and deployment to help maximize their AWS investments.

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.

Many European customers face data sovereignty challenges due to regulations and want to adopt cloud while meeting requirements around data location, autonomy, and resilience. Eviden’s advisory services help define a tailored sovereignty framework. Its implementation services with AWS enforce technical, operational, and organizational compliance. Eviden guides customers’ full cloud journey adhering to their sovereignty needs leveraging AWS services.

Amazon Security Lake centralizes security data from multiple AWS sources into a customer-owned data lake. A New Relic integration provides a single pane for performance and security telemetry, ingests Amazon Security Lake data, and allows threat detection via curated dashboards and anomaly alerts. This solution improves cloud security posture by consolidating data, providing insights, and enabling automated response to potential threats.