Amazon Web Services (AWS) has officially launched AWS AppFabric, a service aimed at enhancing the functionality and security of top Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications. One notable adopter of AWS AppFabric is Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank, which is leveraging the solution to deliver exceptional digital banking services to a wide range of clients. This partnership highlights the significance of AWS AppFabric in enabling organisations to elevate their digital capabilities while safeguarding sensitive data.
Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) announced the general availability of AWS AppFabric, a no-code service that enhances companies’ existing investments in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications with improved security, management and productivity. Information technology (IT) and security teams can use AppFabric to add new capabilities that make their existing SaaS applications and productivity suites work better together. AppFabric aggregates and normalises log data from apps like Asana, Slack and Zoom, as well as productivity suites such as Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, to increase application observability and reduce operational costs associated with building and maintaining point-to-point integrations.
AWS also unveiled a generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) feature that will be available in a future release of AppFabric. Powered by Amazon Bedrock, this feature will use large language models (LLMs) and content from multiple SaaS applications from the common API layer to automatically make suggestions, execute tasks or generate insights across applications and return results within the user’s preferred application.
Bank Leumi, Israel’s largest bank, providing digital banking services to individuals, SMEs and large enterprises have taken on the solution. “We really like the easy integration and improved security visibility that AppFabric brings to our organisation,” said Dudi Levi, Head of Cyber Data at Bank Leumi. “By leveraging AWS AppFabric to aggregate logs from widely used SaaS enterprise applications and its support for the OCSF schema, we are able to reduce the time to deliver security logs to our advanced security operations centre. What took us days will now only take hours. The logs will be streamed to the bank’s Amazon Redshift and Amazon Aurora analytics services and ready for immediate consumption across analytics, rules and forensic workloads.”
“At AWS, our customers build and use powerful applications to support employee productivity, but we increasingly hear that integrating, managing and securing apps is a major pain point for IT and security teams,” said Dilip Kumar, Vice President of Applications at AWS. “Building dozens of custom point-to-point integrations and monitoring data and usage without normalisation isn’t practical in the long term. With AppFabric, customers now have a simple solution to deploy and scale the world’s most widely used applications in a way that helps organisations cut costs, increase productivity and improve security.”