I love traveling to Barcelona for conferences. Between Gaudi’s architecture and tech architectures, there’s really not much more I can ask for. Walking into Cisco Live!, the first thing I encountered was the huge indoor fountain called the “Rain Wall”, which was built to raise awareness and celebrate Cisco’s Corporate Social Responsibility program.

AWS offers a variety of services to solve specific needs. There are some core services, like EC2 and VPC, that let you create an infrastructure for your applications that scales easily. But if you’re new to AWS and also new to infrastructure, you might need to invest some time reading before you deploy your application to AWS. I remember my first time using AWS; the sysadmin explained to me what systems we were using in AWS to run the company’s main application.

At Unravel, we have been working with AWS for some time to help our joint customers simplify data migrations to the cloud. Announced at AWS re:Invent, we are proud to be partnering with AWS on the newly created AWS Partner Network Global Startup Program. Unravel provides detailed insights and recommendations to help enterprises of all sizes slice and dice application workloads to ensure an effective cloud migration strategy.

Whether you stopped by to visit us in person at AWS re:Invent last week or you planned on it but didn’t get a chance, here are some of the most important key points and takeaways.

Sales and marketing analytics is one of the most high-profile focus areas for organizations today, and for good reason – it’s the place to look to boost revenues.

Over the last few years, there has been a mad rush within enterprise organizations to move big data workloads to the cloud. On the surface, it would seem that it’s a bit of a keeping up with the Joneses syndrome with organizations moving big data workloads to the cloud simply because they can.

Our customers tell us they don’t just want to migrate their applications from point A to point B, they want to modernize their applications with cloud-native technologies and techniques, wherever those applications may be. Today, we’re excited to tell you about a variety of new customers that are using Anthos to transform their application portfolio, as well as new cloud migration, API management, and application development offerings:

At Kong, we leverage many tools to protect our services and customers. Terraform from HashiCorp allows us to automate the process with Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Another important tool is Amazon Web Services (AWS) GuardDuty, a continuous monitoring service for security threat detection in your AWS accounts.