AWS Architecture Blog
Author: Lewis Tang
Lewis Tang is a Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services based in Sydney, Australia. Lewis provides partners guidance to a broad range of AWS services and help partners to accelerate AWS practice growth.
What to consider when modernizing APIs with GraphQL on AWS
In the next few years, companies will build over 500 million new applications, more than has been developed in the previous 40 years combined (see IDC article). API operations enable innovation. They are the “front door” to applications and microservices, and an integral layer in the application stack. In recent years, GraphQL has emerged as […]
Augmentation patterns to modernize a mainframe on AWS
Customers with mainframes want to use Amazon Web Services (AWS) to increase agility, maximize the value of their investments, and innovate faster. On June 8, 2022, AWS announced the general availability of AWS Mainframe Modernization, a new service that makes it faster and simpler for customers to modernize mainframe-based workloads. In this post, we discuss […]
Considerations for modernizing Microsoft SQL database service with high availability on AWS
Many organizations have applications that require Microsoft SQL Server to run relational database workloads: some applications can be proprietary software that the vendor mandates Microsoft SQL Server to run database service; the other applications can be long-standing, home-grown applications that included Microsoft SQL Server when they were initially developed. When organizations migrate applications to AWS, […]
Running hybrid Active Directory service with AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory
Enterprise customers often need to architect a hybrid Active Directory solution to support running applications in the existing on-premises corporate data centers and AWS cloud. There are many reasons for this, such as maintaining the integration with on-premises legacy applications, keeping the control of infrastructure resources, and meeting with specific industry compliance requirements. To extend […]