First Technology are one of the largest Systems Integrators in South Africa with representation in each major region. They provide products and value-added services related to Information Technology environments and business processes.

First Technology are one of the largest Systems Integrators in South Africa with representation in each major region. They provide products and value-added services related to Information Technology environments and business processes.

CBS Africa is a leading provider of marketplace solutions. AWS plays a significant part in our technology stack. As part of our effort to continuously innovate, we constantly explore the use of new AWS services. First Distribution’s technical service teams are engaged with us to assist us to constantly modernise our infrastructure and implement new […]

Join First Distribution and AWS as we bring you the“Its so easy” weekly serieswhere we will take you through tutorials to help you with your journey to the cloud. This week we explore Amazon GuardDuty. Amazon GuardDuty is a threat detection service that continuously monitors for malicious activity and unauthorized behavior to protect your AWS accounts, workloads, and […]

When Blue Pearl came up with a game-changing idea for the consultant employment market, First Distribution and AWS came to the party with the support and encouragement needed to make the vision a reality. The result is that the Blue App (www.blueapp.blue) was up and running in just a few short months and is already […]

Join First Distribution and AWS as we bring you the “Its so easy” weekly series where we will take you through tutorials to help you with your journey to the cloud. This week we explore AWS WAF Comprehensive logging. AWS WAF now supports full logging of all web requests inspected by the service. Customers can store these […]

Pattern Matched Technologies™ Recognised as a Select Technology Partner in the Amazon Web Services Partner Network. A technology agreement with AWS enables delivery of advanced consumer services. Pattern Matched Technologies™ (PMT) has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary cloud provider and has signed up to the AWS Partner Network (APN) as an APN […]

Join First Distribution and AWS as we bring you the “It's so easy" weekly series where we will take you through tutorials to help you with your journey to the cloud. This week we explore AWS services and pricing for your architecture needs with the New AWS pricing calculator from AWS. This tool makes planning […]

The Problem CBS License Central needed a stable, highly available, and secure infrastructure to host their server. This system was the gateway to many difference vendors, via APIs. All license reporting with Microsoft etc. was done via this server. Due to the critical nature of this server, and the lack of on-premise hardware to host […]

Fostering the right partnerships can be a tricky path to walk. For AWS, First Distribution (FD), and Silicon Overdrive, the partnership has seen nothing but success.  In a fast-changing cloud environment, staying on top of new developments is key to remaining competitive. And thanks to AWS and FD, Silicon Overdrive has become a foremost expert […]