I simply returned from an excellent thrilling AWS re:Invent 2022 convention extra satisfied than ever about how the “One Team” we’ve assembled — Cisco + AWS + Our Partners — is heading in the right direction to resolve our mutual prospects’ most urgent challenges collectively. Our prospects want to us to assist them understand their strategic priorities, navigate the financial panorama, and innovate like by no means earlier than. They depend on us to assist them preserve their functions, workloads, and information safe from unhealthy actors. They’re additionally asking us about sustainability. Cisco is dedicated to web zero by 2040 throughout the worth chain — together with merchandise, operations, and provide chain — and Amazon is on a path to powering its operations with 100% renewable power by 2025, whereas additionally reaching net-zero carbon by 2040.
What is One Team, you ask? It begins with the longstanding strategic partnership between Cisco and AWS. Many of our prospects are the identical, and lots of function right now throughout on-premises and public-cloud environments. These mutual prospects need assistance to securely, quickly, and constantly join distant customers, distributed groups, functions, workloads, and information throughout their hybrid environments, which falls proper into the Cisco + AWS joint worth proposition.
However, assembly particular buyer outcomes typically requires extra providers and capabilities. This is the place our companions add distinctive worth as core members of the One Team.
Cisco and AWS share most of the similar companions, all who’re specialists in serving to our mutual prospects full the journey to optimally and securely function hybrid cloud environments. Our mixed treasure chest of know-how and providers allows us to be laser-focused on serving to our mutual prospects ship distinctive experiences that meet or exceed their final result aims, all whereas working in hybrid cloud environments.
Speaking of know-how, at this yr’s re:Invent convention, Cisco made 4 very thrilling AWS integration bulletins.
Amazon Security Lake with Cisco Secure Firewall
Amazon Security Lake mechanically centralizes safety information from cloud, on-premises, and customized sources right into a purpose-built information lake saved in a non-public account, permitting prospects to construct a safety information lake from built-in cloud and on-premises information sources, in addition to from their personal functions.
Cisco Secure Firewall, however, serves as a corporation’s centralized supply of safety data. It makes use of superior risk detection to flag and act on malicious ingress, egress, and east-west site visitors, whereas its logging capabilities retailer data on occasions, threats, and anomalies.
At re:Invent, we introduced the integration of Secure Firewall with AWS Security Lake. Through this integration, organizations will have the ability to retailer firewall logs in a extra structured and scalable method. This permits prospects to extra simply analyze safety information to get a extra full understanding of their safety posture throughout the complete group. They can even use their most well-liked analytic instruments to conduct risk detection, safety investigation, and response whereas retaining management and possession of their safety information.
AWS Verified Access with Cisco Duo
AWS Verified Access permits enterprises to allow native or distant safe entry for his or her company functions with out requiring a VPN. Built utilizing AWS Zero Trust guiding rules, AWS Verified Access helps prospects implement a work-from-anywhere mannequin in a safe and scalable method.
Cisco Duo offers multi-factor authentication, serving to prospects proactively scale back the danger of an information breach. With the mixing of Cisco Duo and AWS Verified Access, prospects can leverage this service to retailer and handle digital identities. This mixed service permits buyer staff and different customers to attach with the sources they want, offering a approach to handle entry and add or take away privileges, all whereas sustaining tight safety.
AWS Control Tower Account Factory Customization blueprint with Cisco Secure Firewall DC Edge Security
AWS Control Tower Account Factory Customization offers entry to pre-defined customization blueprints which can be constructed and managed by AWS companions, making it simpler to create and customise new accounts that adjust to a buyer’s safety tips.
With the AWS Control Tower blueprint for Cisco Edge Security, prospects can get an out-of-band atmosphere with Cisco Secure Firewall that offers them the identical safety capabilities within the cloud atmosphere as they might count on of their information facilities. Using this resolution, prospects can provision personalized AWS accounts in AWS Control Tower which can be enabled for community safety inspection use instances with Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense Virtual.
Cisco AppDynamics enterprise transaction insights for cloud-native functions on AWS
Cisco AppDynamics Cloud offers observability instruments for cloud-native functions. At re:Invent, Cisco introduced enterprise transaction insights for AppDynamics Cloud, which allows organizations to realize observability over cloud-native functions correlated to enterprise context throughout the complete hybrid-cloud atmosphere. Business transaction insights from AppDynamics Cloud make it simple for groups to watch functions the best way finish customers expertise them, take motion to remediate potential issues, and optimize efficiency at velocity. This new functionality will initially assist cloud-native functions and digital providers working on AWS.
Customer-first, partner-led
Cisco has been a partner-led firm for many years, and we perceive that as improbable as Cisco’s merchandise and applied sciences are, companions have the key sauce value-add that delivers distinctive options to satisfy buyer use instances extra exactly. With this standpoint, and particularly with the rise of hybrid cloud, Cisco’s partnerships with AWS and mutual channel companions proceed to get stronger, united as One Team and laser-focused on serving to our prospects exceed their final result aims.
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