AWS Architecture Blog
Category: Technical How-to
Field Notes: How to Integrate Your Non-Cloud-Native COTS Software with AWS for Batch Processing
This post was co-written by Ashutosh Pateriya, AWS Partner Solutions Architect, GSI and Verny Quartara, Technology Architect, Infosys Ltd. Integrating legacy or non cloud-native products and tools inside cloud-native applications is a common requirement for enterprise customers looking to migrate their applications to AWS. Many legacy applications such as CRM, accounting, billing or supply chain […]
Field Notes: Monitor Your Couchbase Performance and Logs with Amazon CloudWatch
Cloud architects leverage AWS compute services to run customer-managed workloads like Couchbase clusters. While customer-managed workloads may come with their own monitoring metrics and dashboards, customers miss the same level of deep integration with Amazon CloudWatch that the AWS managed services provide. In this post, we show you how to achieve higher levels of observability […]
Field Notes: AWS Control Tower Governance on Selected Regions and Improved Account Provisioning
Co-written by Kalyan Ghatak, Senior Technical Product Manager and Kishore Vinjam, Partner Solutions Architect at AWS AWS Control Tower is available in 13 AWS Regions today. As we continue to expand to additional Regions, customers have asked to provide the ability to choose the Regions that AWS Control Tower manages. By only selecting the actively […]
Field Notes: Automate SAML 2.0 Federation using AWS Control Tower and Azure Active Directory
Some AWS Control Tower customers have adopted Azure Active Directory as their Identity Provider (IdP) and wish to keep authentication and authorization within the IdP. When setting up federation from Azure Active Directory a tutorial is often consulted which describes how to integrate Azure AD single sign-on with AWS. The tutorial uses an IAM user […]
Field Notes: Designing Multi-Region AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory for Hybrid Environments
Previously, customers with large and complex Microsoft Active Directory deployments across geographies faced challenges when migrating their on-premises Active Directory to AWS. Integrating with AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory also proved difficult. The AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory Multi-Region feature that was released last year simplifies global deployment for these customers and mitigates their migration […]
Field Notes: Building Automated Pipeline Corrosion Monitoring with AWS IoT Core
This post was authored by Venkatesh Muthusami, Principle Consultant, Infosys Technologies, Sudharsan Chinnappan, Analyst, System Development, Infosys Technologies, Kenneth Francis Dias, Technology Architect, Infosys Technologies, and Ashutosh Pateriya, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS Pipelines are crucial to the oil and gas industry across upstream, midstream, and downstream sectors. For industries like oil and gas, the pipeline […]
Field Notes: Connecting Industrial Assets and Machines to the AWS Cloud
One of the challenges faced by manufacturers who are building a smart factory, is how to securely connect to and ingest data from operational data sources. These include machines and industrial assets connecting into their industrial data platform. The ‘industrial edge’ is a foundational architectural building block that addresses this and enables OT/IT integration (operational […]
Field Notes: Launch Amazon EMR with a Static Private IP in a Private Subnet
Organizations across every industry and sector are looking to easily and cost-effectively process vast amounts of data. Amazon EMR offers a way to instantly provision as much or as little capacity as needed to perform data- intensive tasks. When launching Amazon EMR, the IPs of the primary (master) and core node are automatically assigned at […]
Field Notes: How FactSet Balances Developer Velocity with Governance using AWS IAM
This post was co-written by FactSet’s Cloud Infrastructure team, Gaurav Jain, Nathan Goodman, Geoff Wang, Daniel Cordes, Sunu Joseph and AWS Solution Architects, Amit Borulkar and Tarik Makota. At FactSet, their goal for cloud platform on AWS Cloud is to have high developer velocity alongside enterprise governance. They wanted application teams to have a frictionless […]
Field Notes: Scaling Browser Automation with Puppeteer on AWS Lambda with Container Image Support
This post is contributed by Bill Kerr, SHI and Raj Seshadri, Global SA Lead, AWS. Imagine you are launching a brand new website selling goods and services. You are expecting a huge amount of traffic due to the seasonality of the product. You would like to test 100K simultaneous connections to the website and make […]