ZKTeco announced its strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services to enhance its cloud capabilities and launch the innovative Minerva IoT platform.
ZKTeco, a global leader in biometric recognition technology, has announced its strategic partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to enhance its cloud capabilities and launch the innovative Minerva IoT platform. This collaboration aims to harness the robust cloud infrastructure of AWS to develop a secure and scalable IoT platform enriched with advanced features.
Founded in 2007, ZKTeco has consistently been at the vanguard of biometric recognition innovation. The company's journey towards cloud transformation began in 2021, with AWS as a key partner. The development of the Minerva IoT platform on AWS's cloud infrastructure signifies a pivotal achievement in this ongoing partnership.
The Minerva IoT platform by ZKTeco is designed to facilitate seamless integration between smart devices and applications, support computer vision computing at the edge, and provide SaaS cloud services built around the platform. Incorporating big data, IoT, and 5G technologies, Minerva IoT delivers comprehensive intelligent solutions to its users.
The Minerva IoT platform’s architecture is structured in three layers, utilizing an array of AWS services. The first layer, the IoT platform layer, employs AWS Fargate, AWS IoT Core, AWS Kinesis Video Stream, AWS Lambda, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon SageMaker to manage device connectivity, data processing, video streaming, and machine learning tasks.
The second layer, known as the authentication services layer, offers critical support services, including location, organization, identity services, and data management, overseeing user and device management, as well as data storage and access protocols.
The third layer, the storage layer, presents diverse data storage solutions, featuring AWS S3, Amazon Aurora, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, and Amazon Redshift, to accommodate the varied storage demands of the platform.
Adopting a modular architecture, the Minerva IoT platform optimally leverages AWS's hosting capabilities to ensure security, scalability, and high-performance operation. The serverless architecture diminishes management overhead, while machine learning capabilities enhance the platform's intelligence, and big data analytics provide insightful findings. Additionally, the platform's decoupled design supports agile iterations and future growth.
In pursuit of a secure and robust cloud ecosystem, ZKTeco has employed the Cloud Foundations solution in alliance with AWS, which is steered by the AWS Well-Architected Framework's best practices. This approach guarantees outstanding operational, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability.
The Cloud Foundations solution delineates thirty essential capabilities for a robust cloud environment, encompassing governance, risk management, compliance, operations, security, business continuity, financial management, and infrastructure. This enables ZKTeco to swiftly deploy a cloud-ready framework, complete with foundational landing zones, security baselines, and DevOps capabilities.
Benefits of the Cloud Foundations solution include:
Fast Delivery: The solution propels ZKTeco towards rapid value realization, lowers implementation costs, and embeds security best practices, allowing the company to allocate its IT resources to high-value tasks such as large-scale migrations, next-generation serverless app development, and cloud-based business process reinvention.
Enhanced Security: Utilizing a centrally managed codebase enhances solution quality and security. The Cloud Foundations solution integrates baseline security and compliance configurations, with the flexibility to swiftly incorporate new requirements, thus continuously fortifying the cloud environment's security.
Simplified Processes: The solution eases ZKTeco's construction process across multiple AWS accounts, with infrastructure-as-code pre-developed and tested for cloud resources and configurations, mitigating common implementation errors and significantly expediting deployment.
ZKTeco and AWS have also established collaborative investigatory and corrective measures to manage security risks. Services like Amazon GuardDuty and Amazon Security Hub enable comprehensive cross-resource and cross-account assessments, facilitating prompt responses and corrective actions.
Through its alliance with AWS in developing the Minerva IoT platform and implementing the Cloud Foundations solution, ZKTeco demonstrates its dedication to delivering secure, dependable, and cutting-edge solutions. This partnership lays a solid groundwork for ZKTeco's future business expansion and solidifies its status as a leader in biometric recognition technology.
For more information about the partnership and the achievement of ZKTeco and Amazon Web Services, please visit
https://aws.amazon.com/cn/blogs/china/zkteco-builds-a-secure-and-robust-cloud-infrastructure-with-aws-cloud-foundations-solution/.
About ZKTeco
ZKTeco, established in 2007, is a renowned enterprise specializing in biometric technology development. Centered on innovation and customer-focused solutions, ZKTeco has emerged as a global leader in the sector, offering sophisticated biometric systems for a wide array of applications. For additional information, please visit:
www.zkteco.com.