Helping retailers navigate the future

By Dustin Ward

Each new year introduces new opportunities and challenges, but 2020 was exceptional. The pandemic massively disrupted retail organizations due to ongoing shelter-in-place orders and social distancing requirements. Consumers adapted, driving nine years’ worth of e-commerce growth in 90 days. Retailers responded by dramatically accelerating their digital transformation journeys to focus on prioritizing customer health and…

How to approach threat modeling

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedHow to approach threat modeling In this post, I’ll provide my tips on how to integrate threat modeling into your organization’s application development lifecycle. There are many great guides on how to perform the procedural parts of threat modeling, and I’ll briefly touch on these and their methodologies. However, the main aim…

The CDK Patterns open source journey

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedThe CDK Patterns open source journey This post was contributed by Matthew Coulter, Technical Architect at Liberty Mutual. In the summer of 2019, I successfully applied for a promotion to the position of account architect at Liberty IT Solutions, a part of Liberty Mutual Group. This changed everything, as I went from…

AWS Announces the global expansion of AWS CCI Solutions

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAWS Announces the global expansion of AWS CCI Solutions We’re excited to announce the global availability of AWS Contact Center Intelligence (AWS CCI) solutions powered by AWS AI Services and made available through the AWS Partner Network. AWS CCI solutions enable you to leverage AWS machine learning (ML) capabilities with your current…

Account and VPC Considerations for VMware Cloud on AWS

By Dustin Ward

Amazon Web Services FeedAccount and VPC Considerations for VMware Cloud on AWS By Schneider Larbi, Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS VMware Cloud on AWS is a service that is jointly engineered by VMware and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to allow customers to run VMware workloads on the global AWS infrastructure. During the deployment phase…