Importance of an Effective Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategy

Abhinav Anand | March 11, 2022 | 285 views

Importance_of_an_Effective

What Is Cloud Disaster Recovery?

To understand cloud disaster recovery, one must know what disaster recovery is. As the name suggests, it has everything to do with the aftermath of a disaster. Ideally, disaster recovery is the process where organizations prepare for disasters and are fully equipped to recover from them. Therefore, it is undoubtedly an integral part of any business and helps maintain business continuity for any organization. In addition, disaster recovery is focused on securing an organization’s assets. Hence, cloud disaster recovery plans are a group of procedures and measures that ensure an organization is functioning smoothly with the help of dedicated cloud service providers.

Understanding Why Cloud Disaster Recovery Is Important

Business continuity is an essential component for every functioning organization. A business that has a break in functioning due to a disaster can hamper almost everything. This is precisely where a cloud disaster recovery plan comes into action. Using the amount of flexibility available, cloud technologies vastly aid in efficient disaster recovery, irrespective of the intensity of the workloads. With data being stored in a secured cloud environment that is curated to provide high availability, managing and setting it up isn’t a humongous task.

The possibility of your business being affected by a disaster is never too small, and with the current rise in cyber-crime, is it worth the chance? Disaster recovery in cloud computing can help your business deal with ransomware, cyber-attacks, and other such disasters. These are threats that have the potential to completely destroy your files and present your business with a painful downtime.

Most organizations know the value and importance of having an effective disaster recovery plan, and if you don’t have one in place yet, you already have a late start. But it’s never too late to implement effective disaster recovery strategies and benefit from cloud-based solutions.

Understanding cloud disaster recovery benefits:
  • Offers great flexibility
  • Drastically reduces downtime
  • Provides reliability
  • Ensures simplification and efficiency
  • Easy to deploy
  • Highly cost-effective


How to Formulate an Effective Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategy?

With the help of cloud computing, disaster recovery has ideally become just another task that can be taken care of using some simple steps. Before formulating a cloud disaster recovery plan, it is suggested that you look into all the possible threats that might affect your organization. In the event of a disaster, you can figure out how much money will be needed and where your infrastructure is at risk by taking into account all the risk factors.

To effectively formulate a cloud disaster recovery strategy, it is best to follow the steps below:
  • Outline your possible risks and understand your infrastructure
  • Conduct a business impact analysis
  • Parameters of assessment:
  • Recovery Time Objective (RTO)
  • Recovery Point Objective (RPO)
  • Establish a disaster recovery plan based on your RTO and RPO
  • Choose the right cloud partner
  • Focus on building your cloud disaster recovery infrastructure
  • Standardize your disaster recovery plan on paper
  • Constantly test your disaster recovery plan

As data security becomes more important, the global disaster recovery cloud services market has increased dramatically. It is predicted to grow from $4.35 billion in 2019 to $23.3 billion in 2027.88% of enterprises say the public cloud will play a role in their backup plans in the future.


Factors to Weigh While Assessing the Ideal Cloud Partner

Strategic cloud disaster recovery assessment and planning is something that not everyone can take up.Also, why stress on this when you can engagewith a provider with great experience. The right cloud partner should ideally help you conduct a thorough business impact analysis to aid in the familiarization of the potential operational limitations you would encounter during a disaster.

Hence, choosing a cloud partner who is intelligent, pragmatic, and solution-oriented should be of the utmost priority. Such a cloud partner will have all the necessary tools and help you carry out a better assessment of the potential danger to your data.

While formulating the cloud disaster recovery plan, keep in mind:
  • Design your strategy according to your recovery goals
  • Implement control measures
  • Prepare your software
  • Implement your security and compliance controls
  • Use cloud storage as your daily backup routine


Conclusion

In today’s age and time, disaster recovery should be a priority for every organization. While some calamities are unforeseen and highly impactful, successful organizations are always the ones that are capable of getting back up, and this is exactly where a cloud disaster recovery plan comes into action. Once you have assessed every aspect of your recovery strategy, you’d only have to pick the service provider who’s capable of implementing your requirements seamlessly. Once you have all these points in place, your business will be well equipped for almost any possible disaster.

Make ‘business continuity’ ‘business as usual’ and imbed it into your management routines as decisions are made, instead of an afterthought check off the box exercise later.”

Bobbie Garrett


FAQ

 

What Is a Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan?

Cloud-based recovery plans help the organization recover its critical systems after a disaster and also provideremote access to your system using a secure virtual environment.

 

Why Is a Cloud Disaster Recovery Plan Essential?

When an organization does not have an effective disaster recovery plan, it puts the organization at risk of high financial costs, reputation loss, and an even greater risk of losing clients and customers.


What Are the Benefits of Having an Effective Cloud Disaster Recovery Strategy?

Using a cloud disaster recovery strategy, organizations can benefit from:
  • Cost efficiency
  • ncrease employee productivity
  • Greater customer retention

Spotlight

Miracle Software Systems, Inc

Miracle Software Systems, Inc. is a Global Systems Integrator specializing in SOA and Connectivity, Process Integration, Commerce and Digital Experience, Cloud, Mobile and Big Data and Digital Experience. Headquartered in Novi, MI, Miracle has built its global presence over 4 continents after being founded in 1994. The company boasts of large Global Development Centers in the US, India and Canada with over 1500 professionals spread across the globe.

OTHER ARTICLES
CLOUD SECURITY

What Is Cloud-Native and Why Does it Matter for CI

Article | June 29, 2022

Continuous intelligence (CI) relies on the real-time analysis of streaming data to produce actionable insights in milliseconds to seconds. Such capabilities have applications throughout a business. In today’s dynamic marketplace, new CI applications that use data from various sources at any given time might be needed on very short notice.The challenge is how to have the flexibility to rapidly develop and deploy new CI applications to meet fast-changing business requirements. A common approach employed today is to use a dynamic architecture that delivers access to data, processing power, and analytics capabilities on demand. In the future, solutions also will likely incorporate artificial intelligence applications to complement the benefits of traditional analytics. Increasingly, cloud-native is the architecture of choice to build and deploy AI-embedded CI applications. A cloud-native approach offers benefits to both the business and developers. Cloud-native applications or services are loosely coupled with explicitly described dependencies.

Read More
CLOUD SECURITY

Why Microsoft Should Spinoff Its Cloud Business

Article | July 6, 2022

Microsoft currently features old-school solutions that are growing relatively slowly (Office and Windows) and new cloud solutions that are growing tremendously (Dynamics 365 and Azure). If the company stays in its current form, Microsoft stock will keep steadily advancing. But because the company’s total top and bottom lines are never going to increase much more than 30% or 35% per year, the shares are never going to deliver truly huge returns. But that would change if the company was to spin off its rapidly growing cloud businesses. In such a scenario, the current owners of Microsoft stock would receive shares in a cutting edge cloud services company (let’s call it Azure), and shares in a company focused on providing old, mostly PC-based software to businesses and consumers.

Read More
CLOUD SECURITY

Intelligence Giant Upgrading its Cloud Technology

Article | July 6, 2022

With the huge amounts of data in all fields, a future in the cloud is imperative to help deal with this explosion of data, especially in the field of intelligence technology. This is the reason why the US Central Intelligence Agency is updating its cloud technology. The agency has recently released a draft request for proposal for its Commercial Cloud Enterprise contract.The C2E tens of billions contract will be a multi-award commercial cloud computing contract with a five-year base period and two five-year options for a period of performance of up to 15 years, according to nextgov.com.In a March 2019 presentation by the Directorate of Digital Innovation, a division of the CIA, the department outlined its vision for C2E. It would be broad and include infrastructure, platform and software cloud services supporting a broad range of users, with a variety of security clearances and a worldwide presence, as reported by techcrunch.com. The principal C2E Program objective is to acquire cloud computing services directly from commercial cloud service providers with established records for innovation and operational excellence in cloud service delivery for a large customer base,the department stated in the presentation.Apparently, the agency prefers to avoid all the attention that the Pentagon’s JEDI cloud procurement process got, and quietly go about its business.

Read More

AWS tags US$235 million to expand its cloud infrastructure in Latin America

Article | February 10, 2020

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is raising its stake on cloud computing infrastructure in Latin America. Proof of this is that the IT company will use R$1 billion (around US$235 million) to expand its data center in Sao Paulo. These millions will be used for its Data Processing Center located in that part of Brazil. In addition, a portion of these US$235 million will also be used to increase the services it offers to both public and private parties.The move gives reason to suggest that AWS is upping the ante in the future of startups and tech in the region that rely on cloud services to develop their own products.It launched its cloud center in Brazil in 2011 but it’ll be getting some beefing up thanks to these funds. Moreover, AWS has two Edge networks in São Paulo and two in Rio de Janeiro. As well as one in each of the following cities: Bogotá (Colombia), Buenos Aires (Argentina), and Santiago (Chile).The objective of all of this is to be the region’s prime provider of cloud infrastructure and beat out its competition AKA, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft’s Azure.

Read More

Spotlight

Miracle Software Systems, Inc

Miracle Software Systems, Inc. is a Global Systems Integrator specializing in SOA and Connectivity, Process Integration, Commerce and Digital Experience, Cloud, Mobile and Big Data and Digital Experience. Headquartered in Novi, MI, Miracle has built its global presence over 4 continents after being founded in 1994. The company boasts of large Global Development Centers in the US, India and Canada with over 1500 professionals spread across the globe.

Related News

CLOUD APP DEVELOPMENT, CLOUD SECURITY, CLOUD DEPLOYMENT MODELS

New Wiz Runtime Sensor Pioneers a Unified Approach to Cloud Security

Globenewswire | June 06, 2023

Wiz, the leading cloud security platform, today announced the public preview for the Wiz Runtime Sensor, which helps organizations further protect cloud workloads by detecting and responding to potential threats in real-time. The Runtime Sensor deepens the value of Wiz’s top-ranked Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) by eliminating blind spots and siloes to provide better visibility, risk assessment and protection. To best secure cloud environments, security teams need to both proactively remove exploitable attack paths into their cloud and have a last line of defense in the event of an incident. By extending its platform with the Wiz Runtime Sensor, Wiz gives organizations a way to do this without having to rely on multiple, fragmented tools. Furthermore, organizations that rely exclusively on an agent-based workload protection approach leave as many as 80% of workloads unprotected with undiscovered vulnerabilities and attack paths, according to Wiz research1. The new Runtime Sensor extends Wiz’s existing agentless visibility with agent-based real-time detection, for the best of both worlds. "We promised the board world-class Cloud Security Posture Management and real time threat detections,” said Joel Bork, CISO at DoubleVerify. “Between what Wiz already brought to the table with agentless visibility, risk assessment and the rollout of the new Sensor, Wiz exceeds that promise and delivers additional forensics features as well. After months of robust review, it is by far the best offering on the market and enables us to drive our hybrid and multi-cloud security strategy from a single platform." “Wiz enables us to combine the reactive and proactive aspects of cloud security in a single source of truth,” said Joel Cardella, Director, Cybersecurity Engineering at Dexcom. “We rely on the visibility that Wiz provides to surface the unknowns and provide actionable signals from noise. With the Wiz Runtime Sensor, we are adding active, real-time telemetry that gives my team intelligent insight to drive better actions. Dexcom has a strategic goal of pushing hard and fast to scale our business. By leveraging Wiz, we can support and accelerate our cloud transformation without doubling the security team. My team is more efficient and able to focus on strategic work. Wiz simplifies our security challenges and will allow us to more than double our cloud environment over the coming years without scaling complexity.” The Wiz Runtime Sensor is a lightweight eBPF-based agent that can be deployed within Kubernetes clusters. It provides real-time visibility into cloud-native environments, full detection and threat mapping, enhanced remediation and prioritization, and helps organizations chase down the threats that matter to minimize disruptions to the business. Key benefits include: Real-time monitoring and detection of threats and malicious behavior: Wiz detects known and unknown threats including remote code execution, malware, cryptomining and other forms of resource theft, lateral movement or worms, rootkits seeking persistence or privilege escalation and container escape. Full end-to-end visibility into attacks for faster, more efficient response: Wiz extends its Cloud Detection & Response capabilities by correlating threats across real-time signals, cloud activit, and audit logs in a unified, contextual view to uncover attacker movement within a cloud environment so cloud defenders can rapidly respond to limit the impact of a potential incident. Extended attack path analysis for better risk prioritization: Enriches Wiz’s agentless vulnerability assessment using runtime workload signals to identify vulnerabilities affecting active packages that are being used by the workload, so security teams can focus remediation efforts on vulnerable active packages. Out-of-the-box detections to ensure readiness for the latest attacks: The Wiz Threat Research team constantly adds coverage for the latest cloud and Kubernetes attacks seen in the wild. The Wiz detection engine is updated with heuristics-based rulesets that provide transparent and consistent detections, including complex detections that require correlation across cloud layers. “Today’s launch is instrumental in our quest to simplify cloud security” said Yinon Costica, Co-Founder and VP Product, Wiz. “The Wiz Runtime Sensor expands Wiz to a ‘defense in depth’ approach, which spans prevention to real-time detection and response. We are committed to continue to innovate our CNAPP so that it supports customers across their cloud security journey, particularly as they look to consolidate and optimize value from technology investments." Read our blog to learn more about the Wiz Runtime Sensor. About Wiz Wiz secures everything organizations build and run in the cloud. Founded in 2020, Wiz is the fastest-growing software company in the world, scaling from $1M to $100M ARR in 18 months. Wiz enables hundreds of organizations worldwide, including 35 percent of the Fortune 100, to rapidly identify and remove critical risks in cloud environments. Its customers include Salesforce, Slack, Mars, BMW, Avery Dennison, Priceline, Cushman & Wakefield, DocuSign, Plaid, and Agoda, among others. Wiz is backed by Sequoia, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Salesforce, Blackstone, Advent, Greenoaks, Lightspeed and Aglaé. Visit https://www.wiz.io/ for more information.

Read More

CLOUD SECURITY, CLOUD APP MANAGEMENT, AWS MANAGEMENT

Automation Anywhere and AWS Bring the Power of Generative AI to Mission Critical Mainstream Enterprise Processes

Prnewswire | June 05, 2023

Automation Anywhere, the #1 leader in cloud-native intelligent automation, today announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring intelligent automation and generative AI innovations to market. Leveraging Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a service that delivers open-source, pre-trained models and Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service from AWS that makes pre-trained Foundation Models (FMs) easily accessible via an API, Automation Anywhere will offer customers with greater choice, flexibility and reliability for their generative AI deployments. "Our vision has always been to make automation accessible to everyone, anywhere," said Mihir Shukla, CEO, and Co-Founder. "Putting our cloud-native Automation Success Platform on AWS was the first step, and now through intelligent automation fused with generative AI on AWS we enable every employee in every company with the potential to transform business and reshape the way we live and work." Working together since 2017, Automation Anywhere previously launched its cloud-native RPA solution on AWS. The years-long relationship between Automation Anywhere and AWS has evolved from core infrastructure to the application layer with AI. Automation Anywhere will now develop generative AI powered solutions in customer experience, document processing and contact center intelligence using Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart, Amazon Bedrock, and other AWS AI and ML services, further strengthening the go-to-market relationship. "At AWS, our goal is to make it easy, practical, and cost-effective for customers to use generative AI capabilities across their business," said Vasi Philomin, Vice President, Generative AI at AWS. "We are excited for customers to take advantage of our generative AI innovations to help reimagine customers experiences, boost productivity, and bring creative ideas to life." "We already have deployed thousands of Automation Anywhere cloud native bots running on AWS," said Luciano de Carvalho, Automation Executive Manager at ITAU Bank, the largest bank in Brazil and LATAM. "We are very excited that AWS and Automation Anywhere are working together to combine Generative AI with Intelligent Automation." Automation Anywhere has joined the AWS Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners that provides software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS. The program helps AWS Partners drive new business by directly connecting participating ISVs with the AWS Sales organization. The AWS ISV Accelerate Program provides Automation Anywhere with co-sell support and benefits to meet customer needs through collaboration with AWS field sellers globally. Co-selling provides better customer outcomes and assures mutual commitment from AWS and its partners. About Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere is the No. 1 cloud automation platform, delivering automation and process intelligence solutions across all industries to automate end-to-end business processes for the fastest path to enterprise transformation. The company offers the world's only cloud-native platform combining RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics to automate repetitive tasks and build enterprise agility, freeing up humans to pivot to the next big idea and build deeper customer relationships that drive business growth. For additional information, visit www.automationanywhere.com.

Read More

CLOUD SECURITY, AWS INFRASTRUCTURE, AWS MANAGEMENT

Aquia Launches Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Security Assessment Offering, Pairing Automation With Deep Cloud Security Expertise

Prnewswire | June 02, 2023

Aquia Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) specializing in cloud and cybersecurity professional services, today announced the availability of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Security Assessment. The offering will pair automation with deep cloud security expertise to provide customers with contextualized, relevant findings from their assessment. "Often, when an organization seeks to assess the holistic security posture of its AWS account, they receive outputs that lack the context needed to drive decision-making without placing an undue burden on their team," said Dustin Whited, director of security engineering at Aquia. "We are removing ambiguity from the process by pairing automation with industry-leading subject matter expertise to analyze outputs and provide meaningful insights into the risks and priorities most relevant to each customer." By leveraging Aquia's AWS Cloud Security Assessment, organizations can proactively identify and address security gaps, reducing the risk of security incidents and enhancing the overall security of their AWS account. Benefits include: Identifying weaknesses within your AWS account proactively and taking corrective actions before they are exploited by malicious actors. Ensuring proper access controls, encryption mechanisms, backup strategies, and other security measures are in place to safeguard valuable information. Reducing the risk of unauthorized access and subsequent security incidents. Minimizing the impact of potential security breaches or incidents that may occur with an effective response plan. Embracing continuous improvement. For more information or to request a consultation, visit aquia.us/aws-cloud-security-assessment. About Aquia Inc. Securing The Digital Transformation® Aquia Inc. is a developer-centric company passionate about the intersection of security and velocity. We maintain a strong bias towards transformational work that disrupts the status quo — delivering elegant, modern solutions to cutting-edge cybersecurity problems. Founded by military veterans in 2021, we are a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). Our team has decades of experience driving transformational change across the public sector, enterprise businesses, and top-tier technology companies. We value trust, accountability, transparency, diversity, and continuous learning; and we've built these tenants into the DNA of our company. For more information, visit www.aquia.us.

Read More

CLOUD APP DEVELOPMENT, CLOUD SECURITY, CLOUD DEPLOYMENT MODELS

New Wiz Runtime Sensor Pioneers a Unified Approach to Cloud Security

Globenewswire | June 06, 2023

Wiz, the leading cloud security platform, today announced the public preview for the Wiz Runtime Sensor, which helps organizations further protect cloud workloads by detecting and responding to potential threats in real-time. The Runtime Sensor deepens the value of Wiz’s top-ranked Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) by eliminating blind spots and siloes to provide better visibility, risk assessment and protection. To best secure cloud environments, security teams need to both proactively remove exploitable attack paths into their cloud and have a last line of defense in the event of an incident. By extending its platform with the Wiz Runtime Sensor, Wiz gives organizations a way to do this without having to rely on multiple, fragmented tools. Furthermore, organizations that rely exclusively on an agent-based workload protection approach leave as many as 80% of workloads unprotected with undiscovered vulnerabilities and attack paths, according to Wiz research1. The new Runtime Sensor extends Wiz’s existing agentless visibility with agent-based real-time detection, for the best of both worlds. "We promised the board world-class Cloud Security Posture Management and real time threat detections,” said Joel Bork, CISO at DoubleVerify. “Between what Wiz already brought to the table with agentless visibility, risk assessment and the rollout of the new Sensor, Wiz exceeds that promise and delivers additional forensics features as well. After months of robust review, it is by far the best offering on the market and enables us to drive our hybrid and multi-cloud security strategy from a single platform." “Wiz enables us to combine the reactive and proactive aspects of cloud security in a single source of truth,” said Joel Cardella, Director, Cybersecurity Engineering at Dexcom. “We rely on the visibility that Wiz provides to surface the unknowns and provide actionable signals from noise. With the Wiz Runtime Sensor, we are adding active, real-time telemetry that gives my team intelligent insight to drive better actions. Dexcom has a strategic goal of pushing hard and fast to scale our business. By leveraging Wiz, we can support and accelerate our cloud transformation without doubling the security team. My team is more efficient and able to focus on strategic work. Wiz simplifies our security challenges and will allow us to more than double our cloud environment over the coming years without scaling complexity.” The Wiz Runtime Sensor is a lightweight eBPF-based agent that can be deployed within Kubernetes clusters. It provides real-time visibility into cloud-native environments, full detection and threat mapping, enhanced remediation and prioritization, and helps organizations chase down the threats that matter to minimize disruptions to the business. Key benefits include: Real-time monitoring and detection of threats and malicious behavior: Wiz detects known and unknown threats including remote code execution, malware, cryptomining and other forms of resource theft, lateral movement or worms, rootkits seeking persistence or privilege escalation and container escape. Full end-to-end visibility into attacks for faster, more efficient response: Wiz extends its Cloud Detection & Response capabilities by correlating threats across real-time signals, cloud activit, and audit logs in a unified, contextual view to uncover attacker movement within a cloud environment so cloud defenders can rapidly respond to limit the impact of a potential incident. Extended attack path analysis for better risk prioritization: Enriches Wiz’s agentless vulnerability assessment using runtime workload signals to identify vulnerabilities affecting active packages that are being used by the workload, so security teams can focus remediation efforts on vulnerable active packages. Out-of-the-box detections to ensure readiness for the latest attacks: The Wiz Threat Research team constantly adds coverage for the latest cloud and Kubernetes attacks seen in the wild. The Wiz detection engine is updated with heuristics-based rulesets that provide transparent and consistent detections, including complex detections that require correlation across cloud layers. “Today’s launch is instrumental in our quest to simplify cloud security” said Yinon Costica, Co-Founder and VP Product, Wiz. “The Wiz Runtime Sensor expands Wiz to a ‘defense in depth’ approach, which spans prevention to real-time detection and response. We are committed to continue to innovate our CNAPP so that it supports customers across their cloud security journey, particularly as they look to consolidate and optimize value from technology investments." Read our blog to learn more about the Wiz Runtime Sensor. About Wiz Wiz secures everything organizations build and run in the cloud. Founded in 2020, Wiz is the fastest-growing software company in the world, scaling from $1M to $100M ARR in 18 months. Wiz enables hundreds of organizations worldwide, including 35 percent of the Fortune 100, to rapidly identify and remove critical risks in cloud environments. Its customers include Salesforce, Slack, Mars, BMW, Avery Dennison, Priceline, Cushman & Wakefield, DocuSign, Plaid, and Agoda, among others. Wiz is backed by Sequoia, Index Ventures, Insight Partners, Salesforce, Blackstone, Advent, Greenoaks, Lightspeed and Aglaé. Visit https://www.wiz.io/ for more information.

Read More

CLOUD SECURITY, CLOUD APP MANAGEMENT, AWS MANAGEMENT

Automation Anywhere and AWS Bring the Power of Generative AI to Mission Critical Mainstream Enterprise Processes

Prnewswire | June 05, 2023

Automation Anywhere, the #1 leader in cloud-native intelligent automation, today announced it is working with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to bring intelligent automation and generative AI innovations to market. Leveraging Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, a service that delivers open-source, pre-trained models and Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service from AWS that makes pre-trained Foundation Models (FMs) easily accessible via an API, Automation Anywhere will offer customers with greater choice, flexibility and reliability for their generative AI deployments. "Our vision has always been to make automation accessible to everyone, anywhere," said Mihir Shukla, CEO, and Co-Founder. "Putting our cloud-native Automation Success Platform on AWS was the first step, and now through intelligent automation fused with generative AI on AWS we enable every employee in every company with the potential to transform business and reshape the way we live and work." Working together since 2017, Automation Anywhere previously launched its cloud-native RPA solution on AWS. The years-long relationship between Automation Anywhere and AWS has evolved from core infrastructure to the application layer with AI. Automation Anywhere will now develop generative AI powered solutions in customer experience, document processing and contact center intelligence using Amazon SageMaker Jumpstart, Amazon Bedrock, and other AWS AI and ML services, further strengthening the go-to-market relationship. "At AWS, our goal is to make it easy, practical, and cost-effective for customers to use generative AI capabilities across their business," said Vasi Philomin, Vice President, Generative AI at AWS. "We are excited for customers to take advantage of our generative AI innovations to help reimagine customers experiences, boost productivity, and bring creative ideas to life." "We already have deployed thousands of Automation Anywhere cloud native bots running on AWS," said Luciano de Carvalho, Automation Executive Manager at ITAU Bank, the largest bank in Brazil and LATAM. "We are very excited that AWS and Automation Anywhere are working together to combine Generative AI with Intelligent Automation." Automation Anywhere has joined the AWS Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Accelerate Program, a co-sell program for AWS Partners that provides software solutions that run on or integrate with AWS. The program helps AWS Partners drive new business by directly connecting participating ISVs with the AWS Sales organization. The AWS ISV Accelerate Program provides Automation Anywhere with co-sell support and benefits to meet customer needs through collaboration with AWS field sellers globally. Co-selling provides better customer outcomes and assures mutual commitment from AWS and its partners. About Automation Anywhere Automation Anywhere is the No. 1 cloud automation platform, delivering automation and process intelligence solutions across all industries to automate end-to-end business processes for the fastest path to enterprise transformation. The company offers the world's only cloud-native platform combining RPA, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and analytics to automate repetitive tasks and build enterprise agility, freeing up humans to pivot to the next big idea and build deeper customer relationships that drive business growth. For additional information, visit www.automationanywhere.com.

Read More

CLOUD SECURITY, AWS INFRASTRUCTURE, AWS MANAGEMENT

Aquia Launches Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Security Assessment Offering, Pairing Automation With Deep Cloud Security Expertise

Prnewswire | June 02, 2023

Aquia Inc., a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) specializing in cloud and cybersecurity professional services, today announced the availability of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Security Assessment. The offering will pair automation with deep cloud security expertise to provide customers with contextualized, relevant findings from their assessment. "Often, when an organization seeks to assess the holistic security posture of its AWS account, they receive outputs that lack the context needed to drive decision-making without placing an undue burden on their team," said Dustin Whited, director of security engineering at Aquia. "We are removing ambiguity from the process by pairing automation with industry-leading subject matter expertise to analyze outputs and provide meaningful insights into the risks and priorities most relevant to each customer." By leveraging Aquia's AWS Cloud Security Assessment, organizations can proactively identify and address security gaps, reducing the risk of security incidents and enhancing the overall security of their AWS account. Benefits include: Identifying weaknesses within your AWS account proactively and taking corrective actions before they are exploited by malicious actors. Ensuring proper access controls, encryption mechanisms, backup strategies, and other security measures are in place to safeguard valuable information. Reducing the risk of unauthorized access and subsequent security incidents. Minimizing the impact of potential security breaches or incidents that may occur with an effective response plan. Embracing continuous improvement. For more information or to request a consultation, visit aquia.us/aws-cloud-security-assessment. About Aquia Inc. Securing The Digital Transformation® Aquia Inc. is a developer-centric company passionate about the intersection of security and velocity. We maintain a strong bias towards transformational work that disrupts the status quo — delivering elegant, modern solutions to cutting-edge cybersecurity problems. Founded by military veterans in 2021, we are a Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). Our team has decades of experience driving transformational change across the public sector, enterprise businesses, and top-tier technology companies. We value trust, accountability, transparency, diversity, and continuous learning; and we've built these tenants into the DNA of our company. For more information, visit www.aquia.us.

Read More

Events