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Field Notes: Building an Industrial Data Platform to Gather Insights from Operational Data

Co-authored with Russell de Pina, former Sr. Partner Solutions Architect at AWS Manufacturers looking to achieve greater operational efficiency need actionable insights from their operational data. Traditionally, operational technology (OT) and enterprise information technology (IT) existed in silos with various manual processes to clean and process data. Leveraging insights at a process level requires converging […]

Figure 1. Data service solution architecture with default configuration

Field Notes: Building a Data Service for Autonomous Driving Systems Development using Amazon EKS

Many aspects of autonomous driving (AD) system development are based on data that capture real-life driving scenarios. Therefore, research and development professionals working on AD systems need to handle an ever-changing array of interesting datasets composed from the real-life driving data.  In this blog post, we address a key problem in AD system development, which […]

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Field Notes: Monitor IBM Db2 for Errors Using Amazon CloudWatch and Send Notifications Using Amazon SNS

Monitoring a is crucial function to be able to detect any unanticipated or unknown access to your data in an IBM Db2 database running on AWS.  You also need to monitor any specific errors which might have an impact on the system stability and get notified immediately in case such an event occurs. Depending on […]

Field Notes: Building On-Demand Disaster Recovery for IBM DB2 on AWS

With the increased adoption of critical applications running in the cloud, customers often find themselves revisiting traditional strategies that were adopted for on-premises workloads. When it comes to IBM DB2, one of the first decisions to make is to decide what backup and restore method will be used. In this blog post, we will show […]

Figure 1 - Architecture showing how AWS services are used to automatically remove the AWS SSO permission sets and mappings when you upgrade your AWS Control Tower environment

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 […]

Field Notes: Extending the Baseline in AWS Control Tower to Accelerate the Transition from AWS Landing Zone

Customers who adopt and operate the AWS Landing Zone solution as a scalable multi-account environment are starting to migrate to the AWS Control Tower service. They are doing so to enjoy the added benefits of managed services such as stability, feature enhancement, and operational efficiency. Customers who fully use the baseline for governance control provided […]

Figure 2- Spoke and hub architecture

Field Notes: Analyze Cross-Account AWS KMS Call Usage with AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Athena

Businesses are expanding their footprint on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are adopting a multi-account strategy to help isolate and manage business applications and data. In the multi-account strategy, it is common to have business applications deployed in one account accessing an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) encrypted bucket from another AWS account. When […]

Architecture outlining how Pinpoint intrgatios with various AWS services.

Field Notes: Understanding Carrier Codes, Message Structure, and Interaction Analytics with Amazon Pinpoint

IT developers are frequently looking for an analytics system that tracks app user behavior and engagement with various marketing campaigns. It can be challenging to differentiate between use cases and advantages of utilizing Long Codes, Short Codes and Toll-Free numbers to feed into interaction analytics. With Amazon Pinpoint, developers can learn how each user prefers […]

Field Notes: Perform Automations in Ungoverned Regions During Account Launch Using AWS Control Tower Lifecycle Events

This post was co-authored by Amit Kumar; Partner Solutions Architect at AWS, Pavan Kumar Alladi; Senior Cloud Architect at Tech Mahindra, and Thooyavan Arumugam; Senior Cloud Architect at Tech Mahindra. Organizations use AWS Control Tower to set up and govern secure, multi-account AWS environments. Frequently enterprises with a global presence want to use AWS Control […]

Field Notes: Building a Multi-Region Architecture for SQL Server using FCI and Distributed Availability Groups

A multiple-Region architecture for Microsoft SQL Server is often a topic of interest that comes up when working with our customers. The main reasons customers adopt a multiple-Region architecture approach for SQL Server deployments are: Business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) Geographically distributed customer base, and improved latency for end users We will explain the […]