Customers can now streamline the purchase and management of AWS Direct Connect and private connectivity from within AWS Marketplace.

Active Directory (AD) is in many ways the lifeblood of your network, especially in terms of user and identity management. AD has become the core directory service for most enterprises, keeping track of users and IT assets, allowing all these to be identified and manipulated. Because Active Directory houses all these identities and logs the enterprise’s IT assets, IT can spot breaches and abnormal behavior through this directory data.

Continued cloud adoption is leading to an increasing reliance on internet services, and on a complex mix of external service providers and technologies to deliver those services. For network operations teams, these moves significantly reduce visibility into the performance of the underlying infrastructure that business services depend upon. In spite of this diminishing visibility and control, these teams remain responsible for network performance.

As our world becomes more connected, the number of network devices is growing at an unprecedented rate. This poses a challenge for network administrators who need to keep track of all the devices that are added to their network every day. Relying only on monitoring tools with a standard device repository may no longer be sufficient, leading to monitoring gaps and leaving the network vulnerable to potential security risks. Imagine that you have a device that appears as "unknown" in your monitoring tool.