AWS Architecture Blog

Updated April 30, 2024: The information in this post is outdated and the solution has been retired. For more solutions using AWS services, see the AWS Solutions Library. The new version of the AWS Ops Automator, a solution that enables you to automatically manage your AWS resources, features vertical scaling for Amazon EC2 instances. With […]

As AWS product portfolios and feature sets grow, as an enterprise customer, you are likely to migrate your existing workloads and innovate your new products on AWS. To help you keep your cloud charges simple, you can use consolidated billing. This can, however, create complexity for your internal chargebacks, especially if some of your resources […]

This is the third and final blog within a three-part series that examines how to optimize lift-and-shift workloads. A lift-and-shift is a common approach for migrating to AWS, whereby you move a workload from on-prem with little or no modification. This third blog examines how lift-and-shift workloads can benefit from an improved security posture with […]

Lift-and-shift is the process of migrating a workload from on premise to AWS with little or no modification. A lift-and-shift is a common route for enterprises to move to the cloud, and can be a transitionary state to a more cloud native approach. This is the second blog post in a three-part series which investigates […]

Many organizations begin their cloud journey with a lift-and-shift of applications from on-premise to AWS. This approach involves migrating software deployments with little, or no, modification. A lift-and-shift avoids a potentially expensive application rewrite but can result in a less optimal workload than a cloud native solution. For many organizations, a lift-and-shift is a transitional […]

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. Note: This blog post was updated June 6, 2019. A key component of enterprise multi-account environments is logging. Centralized logging provides a single point of access to all salient logs generated across accounts and regions, and is critical for auditing, […]

AWS Cloud Map enables you to map your cloud. You can define friendly names for any resource, such as Amazon S3 buckets, Amazon DynamoDB tables, Amazon SQS queues, or custom cloud services built on Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, or AWS Lambda. Your applications can then discover resource location and metadata by friendly name […]

By Matt Sidley, Senior Product Manager for S3 Customers have built archival workloads for several years using a combination of S3 storage classes, including S3 Standard, S3 Standard-Infrequent Access, and S3 Glacier. For example, many media companies are using the S3 Glacier storage class to store their core media archives. Most of this data is […]

Today we published a subtle but significant update to the AWS Well-Architected Framework. We looked to see where AWS Solutions Architects and customers diverged in how they judged something to be Well-Architected, and we restructured our questions and answers to help close that gap. There are many definitions of IT architecture, but, at its core, […]

Leveraging Analytics and Machine Learning Tools for Readmissions Prediction This blog post was co-authored by Ujjwal Ratan, a senior AI/ML solutions architect on the global life sciences team. In Part 1, we looked at various options to ingest and store sensitive healthcare data using AWS. The post described our shared responsibility model and provided a […]