AWS Architecture Blog
New Amazon Virtual Andon 3.0 – Automate Issue Resolution via APIs and Predictive Services
Developing a modern manufacturing enterprise requires careful thought and attention to several priorities. Predictive maintenance and issue resolution automation are likely high on your list. Maximizing your operational efficiency and optimizing output are critical in this competitive global market. As demand grows, manufacturers are under pressure to fulfill increased production needs. A recent report from […]
Architecture Monthly Magazine: IoT for the Edge
Internet of Things (IoT) for the Edge encompasses so many devices and industries, that we couldn’t pick just one photo for our cover. We include IoT use cases from manufacturing, fitness, ocean research, and agriculture. And these represent only a fraction of what is possible. By moving certain workloads to the edge, your devices communicate […]
Disaster Recovery with AWS managed services, Part 1: Single Region
This 3-part blog series discusses disaster recovery (DR) strategies that you can implement to ensure your data is safe and that your workload stays available during a disaster. In Part I, we’ll discuss the single AWS Region/multi-Availability Zone (AZ) DR strategy. The strategy outlined in this blog post addresses how to integrate AWS managed services […]
Building Resilient Well-Architected Workloads Using AWS Resilience Hub
AWS Resilience Hub is a new service that helps you understand and improve the resiliency of your workloads using AWS Well-Architected best practices. As the lead for the Reliability Pillar of AWS Well-Architected, I am eager to share with you how you can use Resilience Hub to ensure your workload architecture is as reliable as […]
Field Notes: Clear Unused AWS SSO Mappings Automatically During AWS Control Tower Upgrades
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 […]
IBM Hackathon Produces Innovative Sustainability Solutions on AWS
This post was co-authored by Dhana Vadivelan, Senior Manager, Solutions Architecture, AWS; Markus Graulich, Chief Architect AI EMEA, IBM Consulting; and Vlad Zamfirescu, Senior Solutions Architect, IBM Consulting Our consulting partner, IBM, organized the “Sustainability Applied 2021” hackathon in September 2021. This three-day event aimed to generate new ideas, create reference architecture patterns using AWS […]
Migrating Microsoft APS PDW to Amazon Redshift Cloud Data Warehouse
Before cloud data warehouses (CDWs), many organizations used hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) for data analytics. HCIs pack storage, compute, networking, and management capabilities into a single “box” that you can plug into your data centers. However, because of its legacy architecture, an HCI is limited in how much it can scale storage and compute and continue […]
Running a Cost-effective NLP Pipeline on Serverless Infrastructure at Scale
Amenity Analytics develops enterprise natural language processing (NLP) platforms for the finance, insurance, and media industries that extract critical insights from mountains of documents. We provide a scalable way for businesses to get a human-level understanding of information from text. In this blog post, we will show how Amenity Analytics improved the continuous integration (CI) […]
Batch Inference at Scale with Amazon SageMaker
Running machine learning (ML) inference on large datasets is a challenge faced by many companies. There are several approaches and architecture patterns to help you tackle this problem. But no single solution may deliver the desired results for efficiency and cost effectiveness. In this blog post, we will outline a few factors that can help […]
Migrate your Applications to Containers at Scale
AWS App2Container is a command line tool that you can install on a server to automate the containerization of applications. This simplifies the process of migrating a single server to containers. But if you have a fleet of servers, the process of migrating all of them could be quite time-consuming. In this situation, you can […]









