Tag: AWS Well-Architected Framework

An AWS Well-Architected Review is the optimal way to measure your architecture against AWS best practices and to improve your architecture by addressing critical issues. Learn how the nOps cloud management platform allows customers and consulting partners to have a more accurate view of AWS service configurations in alignment with the Well-Architected Framework. We’ll also explore how nOps enables more prescriptive and real-time insights to continuously improve the architecture over time.

Most financial institutions are at different stages of their cloud journey. Many are challenged with delivering new and enhanced services, providing services faster, and driving operational efficiencies while facing increasingly competitive markets. Learn how Avaloq has laid a good foundation to help businesses ease the journey of testing and integrating new solutions by managing the complexities across various phases utilizing Avaloq’s sandbox solution powered by AWS.

From a wide range of AWS Partner success stories to new partner programs launched at AWS re:Invent, here’s a look at the most popular APN Blog posts we shared in 2021. Our goal with this blog has always been to share timely and relevant news, technical solutions, partner stories, and more from Amazon Web Services and the AWS Partner Network (APN) specifically. Thank you for reading the APN Blog, and Happy New Year to all our AWS Partners and customers!

A fundamental component of the Operational Excellence pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework is evolving your environment, incorporating continuous improvement over time. Moving to the cloud should be transformational for a business, by adding agility, and making it easier to innovate. Learn how DXC Technology, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, integrated their ServiceNow instances with AWS Support so they could accelerate ticket resolution via automating ticket processing.

A key challenge SaaS providers face is understanding the cost profile of their environment and the customers within it. Measuring the cost of each tenant in the system, understanding cost-effectiveness of product features, and accurately metering the margin in a SaaS solution are examples of abilities that are critical for SaaS success. Learn why breaking down the cost to different unit metrics, customers, features, segments, and business units is a requirement for any modern SaaS business.

Financial institutions need to keep up with fast-changing market conditions while increasing digital adoption. To provide an end-to-end digital experience to customers, they need capabilities to rapidly validate ideas and conduct experiments or PoCs with an ability to iterate quickly towards the final solution. Virtusa’s Open Innovation Platform (OIP) is hosted on AWS and helps banks and financial services firms to achieve these goals quickly, efficiently, and at low cost.

Customers across industries are looking to optimize business KPIs and outcomes throughout the product lifecycle. Enterprises can achieve this goal by using real-time insights from industrial assets provided by their digital twins, a unique data-driven approach has evolved to become a critical tool for accelerating enterprise digital transformation. Learn about the Atos Digital Twin Platform, its delivery methodology, the industry challenges it addresses, and the underlying reference architecture powered by AWS.

Maximizing performance is a key area of focus for all architects. Achieving optimal performance, however, can be challenging in SaaS environments where multi-tenant workloads can make it difficult to efficiently profile and scale your environment. This post dives deep into the challenges, opportunities, and best practices of efficiently managing performance in multi-tenant SaaS environments on AWS. We’ll review these topics through the lens of an example multi-tenant search application.

Digital Cloud Services (DCS) is a fully managed AWS landing zone-as-a-service from Atos, and the DCS solution offers a managed landing zone platform with enterprise-grade security. It provides customers with the ideal environment to start or continue their business transformation, at pace and scale in a self-service manner. With DCS, customers are safe in the knowledge the underlying platform is built to CIS benchmarks and AWS Well-Architected Framework standards.

The AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR) helps identify and mitigate technical risks in solutions built by AWS ISV Partners. The FTR focuses on a subset of AWS Well-Architected best practices and defines objective criteria for each requirement. In October 2021, we updated the FTR process for Partner Hosted solutions to make it faster, easier, and more accurate than before. In this post, learn how the updated FTR process works, benefits of the new process, and how you can get started.