Category: Management Tools

This blog post was last reviewed/updated August, 2022. The updated version shown below is based on working backwards from a customer need to ensure data consistency post migration, to a modernized microservice architecture. A queuing system is composed of producers and consumers. A producer enqueues messages (writes messages to a database) and a consumer dequeues […]

A common hurdle to DevOps strategies is the manual testing, sign-off, and deployment steps required to deliver new or enhanced feature sets. If an application is updated frequently, these actions can be time-consuming and error prone. You can address these challenges by incorporating progressive delivery concepts along with the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) […]

Many AWS services have features to help you build and manage a multi-Region architecture, but identifying those capabilities across 200+ services can be overwhelming. In this 3-part blog series, we filter through those 200+ services and focus on those that have specific features to assist you in building multi-Region applications. In Part 1, we’ll build […]

The IoT (Internet of Things) has accelerated digital transformation for many industries. Companies can now offer smarter home devices, remote patient monitoring, connected and autonomous vehicles, smart consumer devices, and many more products. The enormous volume of data emitted from IoT devices can be used to improve performance, efficiency, and develop new service and business […]

Volotea is one of the fastest growing independent airlines in Europe, and has increased its fleet, routes, and number of available seats year over year. Volotea has already transported more than 30 million passengers across Europe since 2012, and has bases in 16 European capitals. The maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) application is a critical […]

Monitoring a is crucial function to be able to detect any unanticipated or unknown access to your data in an IBM Db2 database running on AWS.  You also need to monitor any specific errors which might have an impact on the system stability and get notified immediately in case such an event occurs. Depending on […]

Increasingly organizations are using AWS Control Tower to manage their multiple accounts as well as an external third-party identity source for their federation needs. Cloud architects who use these external identity sources, needed an automated way to clear the unused maps created by AWS Control Tower landing zone as part of the launch, or during […]

Caution: The solution covered in this blog post works on AWS Landing Zone 2.4.5 and lower, and AWS Control Tower 2.9 and lower. To use it in higher versions, you need to use a separate IAM password policy template for IamPasswordPolicy baseline and change the deployment target to a management account for the EnableNotifications baseline […]

Businesses are expanding their footprint on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are adopting a multi-account strategy to help isolate and manage business applications and data. In the multi-account strategy, it is common to have business applications deployed in one account accessing an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) encrypted bucket from another AWS account. When […]

In Part I: Compute and Part II: Storage of this series, we introduced strategies to optimize the compute and storage layer of your AWS architecture for sustainability. This blog post focuses on the network layer of your AWS infrastructure and proposes concepts to optimize your network utilization. Optimizing the networking layer of your AWS infrastructure When you […]