Month: October 2022

AWS Launches Program to Shift Windows Workloads To Its Cloud Amazon Web Services (AWS), has launched an offshoot from its larger Migration Acceleration program (MAP) that is specifically designed to help organizations move their Windows environments to AWS. AWS announced that MAP for Windows is a Windows migration service that “provides best practices and tools to help customers save costs, accelerate migrations, and modernize their Windows workloads in AWS.” Customers can access the service via the AWS Professional Services team or third-party migration service providers in the AWS Partner Network. Fred Wurden, general manager for enterprise engineering at AWS, stated Monday that these partners had “reproved their ability to successfully complete multiple large-scale migrations into AWS.” They have been awarded the APN Migration Competency Partners and the Microsoft Workloads Competency designations. The program’s goal is to assist organizations in migrating their Windows workloads to AWS. This service will also offer open-source and cloud-native alternatives for customers’ legacy SQL Server or Windows Server applications. The three-step migration process will be explained to customers.

- October 28, 2022 - Chavez

An organization readiness assessment to identify potential problems before moving on to the next stage of the migration process. This stage also includes a review and discussion of the different …

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AWS Launches Partner Competency for SaaS Experts A new AWS Partner Network (APN) competency turns the spotlight on consulting firms with expertise in building software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. AWS SaaS Competency is available to APN consulting partners who have been subject to rigorous technical validation by AWS Partner Solutions Architects, and have demonstrated customer success, AWS partner executives stated in a blog posting this week. The AWS SaaS Competency offers two types of partner categories. Depending on their focus, consulting partners may qualify for either one or both of the two categories. The Design Services category is reserved for partners who are skilled in using AWS infrastructure to create SaaS applications. According to the announcement, these partners “have the ability design, implement, integrate AWS infrastructure to support SaaS application architectures.” The Builders category is for partners who are skilled in software development. These partners are able to create multi-tenant software code for tier-1 SaaS apps using object-oriented programming and software development lifecycles (SDLC) agile methodologies. According to AWS spokespersons, the APN consulting partners go through a rigorous “vetting process” in order to earn the AWS SAAS Competency. The process generally consists of three areas:

- October 28, 2022 - Chavez

The APN Partner, AWS Solutions Architects, as well as a 3rd Party auditor, conduct deep dives into multiple SaaS customer use cases during the vetting process. This validation process determines …

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AWS Launches One Click React Native Starter Project. Now available on GitHub, the Amazon Web Services (AWS), “Mobile React Native Starter App” gives the rapidly growing React Native ecosystem a simplified entry point. React Native, a new open-source technology for native iOS or Android app development, is based on JavaScript. It follows a “learn one, write anywhere” philosophy rather than the elusive, one-size fits all, cross-platform approach of “write once and run anywhere”. The bootstrap project provides all the support and context for a Pet Tracker app. It includes authorization, user registration, image storage and access to relevant APIs and database operations. This week’s blog post provided additional details about how this functionality is provided. AWS stated that the project includes a starter application that can run in a single click using the Deploy From GitHub button capabilities of AWS Mobile hub. [Click on the image to see a larger view.] Project architecture (Source AWS) “After deployment finishes the starter can then be run locally using either npm, yarn on iOS or Android. The project shows user sign-up and sign in flows, as well as MFA [multifactor authentication] for a ‘Pet Tracker application. This allows you to upload photos of your pets, along with some data (names, breeds, and genders). The photos are saved in an S3 bucket. Only the user can access the bucket. The records that correspond to these images are also stored in an Amazon DynamoDB database on a per user basis. This serverless infrastructure uses AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway to protect it. Developers who are interested in the starter project need to have an AWS account, NodeJS and npm, and the React Native CLI (command line-tool). The optional AWS CLI, Watchman file-watching and optional AWS CLI may also be helpful. The Pet Tracker app (Source : AWS). “In addition to the starter app, which you can modify to suit your needs, there are several Higher Order Components, (HOCs), that you can use to build your own application,” AWS stated. “For example, you can add the sign-up, sign in, and MFA portions to your application using the WithAuth HOC. There are also HOCs that allow secure storage access and API access. Although it can seem overwhelming to set up a full-fledged cloud app, AWS claims that once you import the project, it automatically configures.

- October 28, 2022 - Chavez

Amazon Cognito User Pools & Federated Identities Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda and Amazon DynamoDB Amazon S3, including folder structures and bucket policies for private and public content IAM roles …

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Global Knowledge

- October 13, 2022 - Chavez

ITIL is one of the most sought-after certifications among IT professionals–nearly one in five is ITIL-certified.1 ITIL is a way to provide stability as IT resources become more scarce and …

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Global Knowledge

- October 13, 2022 - Chavez

An ITIL Foundation class is a great way to get started with ITIL best practices. Participants can expect to receive: * A comprehensive introduction to ITIL best practice. * Information …

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