AWS Architecture Blog

This is the third and final blog within a three-part series that examines how to optimize lift-and-shift workloads. A lift-and-shift is a common approach for migrating to AWS, whereby you move a workload from on-prem with little or no modification. This third blog examines how lift-and-shift workloads can benefit from an improved security posture with […]

Lift-and-shift is the process of migrating a workload from on premise to AWS with little or no modification. A lift-and-shift is a common route for enterprises to move to the cloud, and can be a transitionary state to a more cloud native approach. This is the second blog post in a three-part series which investigates […]

Many organizations begin their cloud journey with a lift-and-shift of applications from on-premise to AWS. This approach involves migrating software deployments with little, or no, modification. A lift-and-shift avoids a potentially expensive application rewrite but can result in a less optimal workload that a cloud native solution. For many organizations, a lift-and-shift is a transitional […]

A key component of enterprise multi-account environments is logging. Centralized logging provides a single point of access to all salient logs generated across accounts and regions, and is critical for auditing, security and compliance. While some customers use the built-in ability to push Amazon CloudWatch Logs directly into Amazon Elasticsearch Service for analysis, others would […]

By: Alexandr Moroz, Sr. Product Manager, Amazon Route 53; Madhuri Peri, Sr. IoT Architect, AWS Professional Services; Aaron Molitor, Sr. Infrastructure Architect, AWS Professional Services; and Sarma Palli, Sr. DevOps Architect, AWS Professional Services AWS Cloud Map enables you to map your cloud. You can define friendly names for any resource, such as Amazon S3 […]

By Matt Sidley, Senior Product Manager for S3 Customers have built archival workloads for several years using a combination of S3 storage classes, including S3 Standard, S3 Standard-Infrequent Access, and S3 Glacier. For example, many media companies are using the S3 Glacier storage class to store their core media archives. Most of this data is […]

Today we published a subtle but significant update to the AWS Well-Architected Framework. We looked to see where AWS Solutions Architects and customers diverged in how they judged something to be Well-Architected, and we restructured our questions and answers to help close that gap. There are many definitions of IT architecture, but, at its core, […]

Leveraging Analytics and Machine Learning Tools for Readmissions Prediction This blog post was co-authored by Ujjwal Ratan, a senior AI/ML solutions architect on the global life sciences team. In Part 1, we looked at various options to ingest and store sensitive healthcare data using AWS. The post described our shared responsibility model and provided a […]

Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise is a widely used enterprise resource planning (ERP) application. Customers run production deployments of various PeopleSoft applications on AWS, including PeopleSoft Human Capital Management (HCM), Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM), Interactive Hub (IAH), and Customer Relationship Management (CRM). We published a whitepaper on Best Practices for Running Oracle PeopleSoft on AWS […]

When I joined AWS last year, I wanted to find a way to explain, in the easiest way possible, all the options it offers to users from a compute perspective. There are many ways to peel this onion, but I want to share a “visual story” that I have created. I define the compute domain […]