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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 […]

Figure 1. Current Architecture with improved resiliency and standardized observability

Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #3 – Improved Resilience and Standardized Observability

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In the last blog, Maximizing System Throughput, we talked about design patterns you can adopt to address immediate scaling challenges to provide a better customer experience. In this blog, we talk about architecture patterns to improve system resiliency, why observability […]

Backup and restore DR strategy

Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part II: Backup and Restore with Rapid Recovery

In a previous blog post, I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS. These strategies enable you to prepare for and recover from a disaster. By using the best practices provided in the AWS Well-Architected Reliability Pillar whitepaper to design your DR strategy, your workloads can remain available despite disaster events […]

Figure 5. The Full Architectural Diagram

Reduce Operational Load using AWS Managed Services for your Data Solutions

As the volume of customers’ data grows, companies are realizing the benefits that data has for their business. Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers many database and analytics services, which give companies the ability to build complex data management workloads. At the same time, these services can reduce the operational overhead compared to traditional operations. Using […]

Figure 1. Enterprise customer engagement channels and corresponding AWS services

Architecting Cross-channel Intelligent Customer Engagements

Recently, we have had customers express the desire to build “omni-channels.” These omni-channels provide a centralized overview of digital engagement channels that help you better understand your customers and offer a more personalized experience. Many companies have tried or are trying to implement an omni-channel strategy. However, because most existing channels are built on different platforms and […]

Solution Architecture illustrating the Multi-Region architecture connected via Transit Gateway

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 […]

Full Stack SWIFT implementation on AWS

Architecting SWIFT Connectivity on Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The adoption of the ISO 20022 messaging standard by the financial industry will benefit all participants across the payments chain: banks, market infrastructures, corporate, and consumers. By moving the SWIFT messaging and communications infrastructure stack onto AWS, customers can speed their adoption of ISO 20022. At the same time, they can reduce costs, and improve […]

CloudFront events that can trigger Lambda@Edge functions

Dynamic Request Routing in Multi-tenant Systems with Amazon CloudFront

In this blog post, we will share how OutSystems designed a globally distributed serverless request routing service for their multi-tenant architecture. This will provide you ways to benefit from a managed solution that’s scalable and requires a low operational effort. Namely, we explain how to select the origin serving an HTTP/S request using Lambda@Edge, including […]

Current architecture with improved system resiliency

Journey to Adopt Cloud-Native Architecture Series: #2 – Maximizing System Throughput

In the last blog, Preparing your Applications for Hypergrowth, we talked about hypergrowth and the technical challenges it presents to companies. As a reminder, we presented an example ecommerce company running a monolithic application on Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). This application connects with Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS). The company recently experienced a […]

Corrosion Monitoring Architecture

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 […]