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Six strategies from AWS to quickly and successfully start migrating applications to the cloud

Migrating applications to the cloud: 6 strategies from AWS for quick start

Prologue Organizations use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to store, manage, and access the rapidly increasing quantities of data that accompany digital innovations for evolving customer needs. Enterprises such as GE, the Coca-Cola Company, BP, Enel, Samsung, NewsCorp, and Twenty-First Century Fox have successfully migrated their on-premises workloads to AWS. By doing so, they benefitted from […]

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The Future of Generative AI is Secure

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When AI leads, security concerns follow Generative artificial intelligence (AI) holds big promise for the enterprise. Developed to produce text, images, and other media, generative AI is democratizing content creation, summarization, and document processing. Services like ChatGPT and DALL-E are simple yet extremely powerful tools used within organizations around the world. And as generative AI

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Artificial Intelligence for Small and Medium Businesses

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The power and promise of AI While businesses have been embracing artificial intelligence (AI) for decades, it’s now easier and more cost-effective than ever for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) to adopt and leverage its capabilities as they scale. A broad, deep suite of AI tools allows businesses in any industry to analyze and garner

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Building an End-to-End Data Strategy

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Now more than ever, data is at the center of every application, process, and business decision. It’s the genesis for modern invention, and in today’s fast changing and complicated landscape, how you put your organization’s data to work can be the golden ticket to accelerating innovation and accomplishing your organizational goals. The stakes are high.

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Most common cloud objections and how to handle them? (AWS perspective)

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When you work with companies, you will often encounter objections that they will want to address in a way that can build trust and awareness. Understanding their underlining challenges and concerns is critical in providing them with the appropriate solution. The common objection categories selected here are So now, let’s dive a little deeper into

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How to understand the operations perspective in AWS Cloud Adoption Framework?

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Operations perspective The operations perspective focuses on ensuring that cloud services are delivered at a level that is agreed upon with business stakeholders. Automating and optimizing operations will allow to effectively scale while improving the reliability of workloads. This perspective comprises nine capabilities. Common stakeholders include infrastructure and operations leaders, site reliability engineers, and information

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How to understand security perspective in AWS Cloud Adoption Framework?

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Security perspective The security perspective helps achieve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data and cloud workloads. It comprises nine capabilities. Common stakeholders include CISO, CCO, internal audit leaders, and security architects and engineers. 1. Security governance Develop, maintain, and effectively communicate security roles, responsibilities, accountabilities, policies, processes, and procedures. Ensuring clear lines of accountability

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How to understand platform perspective in AWS Cloud Adoption Framework?

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Platform perspective The platform perspective focuses on accelerating the delivery of cloud workloads via an enterprise-grade, scalable, hybrid cloud environment. It comprises seven. Common stakeholders include CTO, technology leaders, architects, and engineers. 1. Platform architecture Establish and maintain guidelines, principles, patterns, and guardrails for cloud environment. A well-architected cloud environment will help accelerate implementation, reduce

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How to understand governance perspective in AWS Cloud Adoption Framework?

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Governance perspective The governance perspective focuses on orchestrating cloud initiatives while maximizing organizational benefits and minimizing transformation-related risks. It comprises seven capabilities. Common stakeholders include chief transformation officer, CIO, CTO, CFO, CDO, and CRO. 1. Program and project management Deliver interdependent cloud initiatives in a flexible and coordinated manner. Complex, cross-functional cloud transformation initiatives require

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How to understand the people perspective in AWS Cloud Adoption Framework?

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People perspective The people perspective serves as a bridge between technology and business, accelerating the cloud journey to help organizations more rapidly evolve to a culture of continuous growth and learning, where change becomes business-as-normal. In addition to culture, the focus is on organizational structure, leadership, and workforce. This perspective comprises seven capabilities.Common stakeholders include

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