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COTS Software with AWS for Batch Processing

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 […]

Figure 1. Architecture for Customizations for AWS Control Tower

Fast and Secure Account Governance with Customizations for AWS Control Tower

Organizations around the world value a secure, well-architected, AWS environment that provides a strong foundation for their cloud operations. They seek a multi-account strategy that delivers operational excellence, security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization of their AWS resources now and into the future. AWS Control Tower delivers on this multi-account strategy by orchestrating various AWS […]

Figure 3 serverless monitoring solution architecture showing an AWS Lamba function scheduled by EventBridge rule.

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 […]

Architecture Monthly Magazine: Travel and Hospitality

In our Travel and Hospitality issue, we feature several customers: Southwest Airlines, American Airlines, Wyndham, Meliá, Just Eat Take Away, Domino’s, KFC, and more. We also have some great articles from NLX, IBS, Elenium, Datalex – our T&H competency partners. Through blogs and case studies, you’ll see how the double challenge of the pandemic and […]

Figure 2. Pilot light DR strategy

Disaster Recovery (DR) Architecture on AWS, Part III: Pilot Light and Warm Standby

In this blog post, you will learn about two more active/passive strategies that enable your workload to recover from disaster events such as natural disasters, technical failures, or human actions. Previously, I introduced you to four strategies for disaster recovery (DR) on AWS. Then we explored the backup and restore strategy. Now let’s learn about […]

Figure 2. DLT architecture diagram

Ensure Optimal Application Performance with Distributed Load Testing on AWS

As a modern enterprise, your customers expect 100% availability of your critical web and mobile applications. Unforeseen events such as COVID-19, have necessitated many customer engagements to become virtual. This has made web and mobile applications even more critical. Distributed Load Testing on AWS (DLT) helps you automate the performance testing of your software applications […]

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Managing Asynchronous Workflows with a REST API

While building REST APIs, architects often discover that they have particular operations that have to run in the background outside of the request processing scope. Some of these may be “fire and forget”—there is no need to report back to the client—for example, when initiating a shipment. For others, the client may need a response, […]

AWS Control Tower Architecture

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 […]

Figure 4. Discovering Hot Topics using Machine Learning solution architecture

Discovering Hot Topics using Machine Learning

Successful businesses not only have great products and services; they also have a deep understanding of their customers. Companies that can use behavioral analytics in marketing automation platforms are better equipped to deliver real-time marketing efforts. According to a research case study from Deloitte, companies with a customer-centric business model are 60% more profitable. Knowing […]

Interior of KFC restaurant

The Technology Behind KFC’s Finger Lickin’ Good Success

This post was written by Jaime Hall of KFC At Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), our platform has constantly evolved over the past four years. Since the shift to bring all development in house, we’ve been making great progress. During this time, KFC has grown dramatically within the digital space. Underpinning it all, we aim to […]