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Founded in 2008, Dream11 is India’s leading sports-tech startup with a growing base of more than 45 million users playing multiple sports such as fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, and basketball. Dream11 uses Amazon Aurora with Amazon ElastiCache to serve 1 million concurrent users within 50ms response time, serving at an average 3 million requests per […]

During re:Invent 2019, AWS announced a new way to integrate external identity sources such as Azure Active Directory with auto provisioning of identities and groups in AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO). In March 2020, AWS SSO afforded customers the possibility to connect their Okta Identity Cloud to AWS Single Sign-On (SSO) in order to manage […]

Fundbox is a leading technology platform focused on disrupting the $21 trillion B2B commerce market by building the world’s first B2B payment and credit network. With Fundbox, sellers of all sizes can quickly increase average order volumes (AOV) and improve close rates by offering more competitive net terms and payment plans to their SMB buyers. […]

Cameras mounted in connected cars may collect a variety of video data. Organizations may need to redact the personal information (e.g. human faces and automobile license plates) contained in the collected video data in order to protect individuals’ privacy rights and, where required, meet compliance obligations under privacy regulations such as General Data Protection Regulation […]

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) brings automation to the provisioning process, which was traditionally done manually. Rather than relying on manually performed steps, both administrators and developers can instantiate infrastructure using configuration files. IaC helps avoid configuration drift through automation, and increases the speed and agility of infrastructure deployments. It also helps reduce errors and enhances […]

In this month’s issue of AWS Architecture Monthly, Worldwide Tech Lead for Agriculture, Karen Hildebrand (who’s also a fourth generation farmer) refers to agriculture as “the connective tissue our world needs to survive.” As our expert for August’s Agriculture issue, she also talks about what role cloud will play in future development efforts in this […]

Introduction This blog explains the benefits of using Amazon VPC endpoints and highlights a self-paced workshop that will help you to learn more about them. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) enables you to launch AWS resources into a virtual network that you’ve defined. This virtual network resembles a traditional network that you’d operate in […]

An AWS Transit Gateway enables you to attach Amazon VPCs, AWS S2S VPN and AWS Direct Connect connections in the same Region, and route traffic between them. Transit Gateways are designed to be highly scalable and resilient. You can attach up to 5000 VPCs to each gateway and each attachment can handle up to 50 […]

With the Internet of Things (IoT), what happens to your thing when there’s no internet? Johan Stokking, co-founder of The Things Network and The Things Industries, along with Matt Yanchyshyn from AWS, dig into this. About The Things Network and The Things Industries The Things Network is a community project building a global IoT data […]

This post was co-written by Andrew Alaniz , Technical Information Security Officer, and Brady Pratt, Cloud Security Engineer, both at BBVA USA. Introduction Data Loss Prevention (DLP) is a common topic among companies that work with any type of sensitive data. One of the challenges is that many people either don’t fully understand what DLP […]