In this episode of AWS Partners Unplugged, Tarek Makota, Senior Principal Solution Architect at AWS, discusses building resilient SaaS applications for ISV partners. We explore AWS fault isolation boundaries through regions and availability zones, explaining how proper application design can contain failures and prevent them from spreading across an entire customer base. We discuss the misconception that multi-region deployments automatically provide higher resilience, emphasizing that single-region architectures can achieve high availability when properly designed to honor fault boundaries between control planes and data planes. We cover key strategies including load shedding, careful retry implementation to avoid amplifying problems, identifying critical user journeys, and leveraging AWS services like Application Recovery Controller and its Zonal Auto Shift feature, along with Fault Injection Simulator for testing and recovery.

Links:

• https://aws.amazon.com/resilience-hub/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/resilience-analysis-framework/introduction.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/resilience-lifecycle-framework/introduction.html

Contact us:

• aws-partner-unplugged-podcast-hosts@amazon.com
• Tarik: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarik-makota/

In this episode of AWS Partners Unplugged, we explore the latest innovations from the AWS Partner Network, focusing on AI-driven solutions that are reshaping business operations. We discuss Amplitude's groundbreaking collaboration with Amazon Bedrock to revolutionize product growth through AI agents that proactively detect user friction points and implement real-time optimizations, transforming analytics from reactive to proactive processes. Our conversation also covers AWS Transform's breakthrough in mainframe modernization, which leverages specialized AI agents to reduce traditionally multi-year migration projects to just months, addressing the growing legacy skills gap. Additionally, we highlight the launch of the AWS European sovereign cloud, providing EU organizations with robust security and compliance while maintaining data sovereignty, and explore comprehensive security solutions including Superna Defender for cloud storage protection and updates to AWS competency programs that help customers find validated partners with specialized expertise.

Blog Links:

* https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/accelerate-product-growth-with-amplitude-ai-agents-and-amazon-bedrock/

* https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/accelerating-mainframe-modernization-learn-how-partners-are-leveraging-aws-transform/

* https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/empowering-european-innovation-partner-solutions-for-the-aws-european-sovereign-cloud/

* https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/new-categories-and-enhanced-benefits-for-aws-government-competency-partners/

* https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/strengthen-your-aws-cloud-storage-security-with-superna-defender/

* https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/updates-to-the-aws-mssp-competency-deliver-turnkey-security-solutions-for-customers/

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* aws-partner-unplugged-podcast-hosts@amazon.com

In this episode of AWS Partners Unplugged, we explore four innovative collaborations between AWS and its partners showcased in recent APN blogs. We highlight how Dynatrace provides comprehensive observability for generative AI applications built on Amazon Bedrock, ensuring reliable and compliant AI operations with features like guardrail analysis and audit trails. We then examine how AWS and Intel are making large language models more accessible and cost-effective through model distillation and CPU optimizations. We also discuss MongoDB Atlas's impressive 14x improvement in search indexing performance by leveraging Amazon S3 for index snapshots, and conclude with an exploration of an AI assistant for Splunk that transforms natural language queries into efficient search queries using Amazon Bedrock agents. Throughout the episode, we emphasize how these technical innovations deliver tangible business value by addressing real-world challenges for partners and their customers.

The blog links:

• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/elevating-llm-observability-with-amazon-bedrock-and-dynatrace/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/how-aws-and-intel-make-llms-more-accessible-and-cost-effective-with-deepseek/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/improving-mongodb-atlas-search-elasticity-with-amazon-s3/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/unlocking-the-power-of-splunk-with-amazon-bedrock-an-agentic-ai-approach-to-build-customized-splunk-assistants-using-bedrock-agents/

To reach us: aws-partner-unplugged-podcast-hosts@amazon.com