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Amazon Q, is a new generative artificial intelligence- (AI)-powered assistant designed for work that can be tailored to your business. You can use Amazon Q to have conversations, solve problems, generate content, gain insights, and take action by connecting to your company’s information repositories, code, data, and enterprise systems. Amazon Q provides immediate, relevant information […]

Introduction In this post, we explore the approach of integrating mainframe IBM MQ with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), to migrate your applications into a cloud-based consumer model. Amazon MSK is a fully managed Apache Kafka service from AWS that makes it simpler to set up and operate Kafka in the cloud. […]

The recent rise of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) solutions presents challenges to migrations that are in flight and to migrations that are just beginning. The business problem is that generative AI complicates cloud migrations by introducing additional risks related to data isolation, data sharing, and service costs. For example, the US Space Force has […]

This post is co-authored with Andy Suarez and Kevin Breton (from KnowBe4). For any successful growing organization, there comes a point when the technical architecture struggles to meet the demands of an expanding and interconnected business environment. The increasing complexity and technical debt in legacy systems create pain points that constrain innovation. To overcome these […]

Customers often look for options to capture and centralized storage of application logs from Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service on Fargate (Amazon EKS on Fargate) Pods to investigate root causes or analyze security incidents. Customers also like the capability to easily query the logs to assist with security investigations. In this blog post, we show you […]

We are delighted to announce the release of the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Lens. The M&A Lens consists of a Mergers and Acquisitions Lens whitepaper and an AWS-created lens available in the new Lens Catalog of the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool). The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent approach to evaluate architectures and […]

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD); a day of awareness intended to draw attention to accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities around the world. It is a perfect time to reflect on the importance of accessibility in the cloud. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), our guiding principle of customer obsession extends to our […]

We are excited to announce support for Grafana version 10.4 in Amazon Managed Grafana. You can now run Grafana version 10.4 on a secure, scalable, highly available, and fully managed service. This update gives you access to key features introduced in the open-source Grafana versions 9.5 to 10.4, including Correlations, Subfolders, Transformations redesign, and new visualization panels. It […]

Join us in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 10-12, 2024 for AWS re:Inforce, a cloud governance, compliance, and security conference. Attendees can expand their cloud security knowledge through hundreds of technical and non-technical sessions, engage with AWS experts and certified partners in the expo hall, and hear from AWS security leaders during keynotes. Whether you are […]

Introduction Keeping a watchful eye on your Kubernetes infrastructure is crucial for ensuring optimal performance, identifying bottlenecks, and troubleshooting issues promptly. In the ever-evolving world of cloud-native applications, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) has emerged as a popular choice for deploying and managing containerized workloads. However, monitoring Kubernetes clusters can be challenging due to their […]