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Many of our customers manage multiple AWS accounts in AWS Organizations and utilize Service Control Policies (SCPs) to centrally manage permissions in their organization. SCPs offer central control over the maximum available permissions for every account in your organization and can be applied to an account, organization units (OUs), or the organization as a whole […]

When you migrate mainframe applications to the cloud, you will usually have to migrate mainframe job schedules too. In this post, I’ll show you how to migrate mainframe CA7 job schedules to a cloud native job scheduler in AWS, how to trigger off event-based jobs, how to run streaming jobs, how to migrate CA7 database, […]

Organizations want their developers to provision resources that they need to build applications while maintaining compliance with security, operational, and cost optimization best practices. Most solutions today inform customers about noncompliant resources only after those resources have been provisioned. These noncompliant resources exist until they are deleted or modified and increase security risk, operational overhead, […]

AWS PrivateLink is a highly available, scalable technology that lets you connect your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to supported AWS services without requiring public internet traversal. It also lets you privately connect to services hosted by other AWS accounts (VPC endpoint services) and supported AWS Marketplace partner services. Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is a […]

AWS Systems Manager lets you safely automate common and repetitive IT operations and management tasks. Furthermore, Systems Manager Automation lets you use predefined playbooks, or you can build, run, and share wiki-style automated playbooks to enable AWS resource management across multiple accounts and AWS Regions. Snowflake, the Data Cloud, is an APN Partner that provides […]

In this post we will provide guidance to assist customers responding to the recently disclosed Log4j vulnerability by detailing how to use AWS Systems Manager Inventory to locate Log4j JAR files on Linux and Windows Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and hybrid managed nodes. A hybrid managed node includes on-premises servers, edge devices, and virtual […]

Managing AWS billing, support and service team notifications, and potential security events are critical for customers to ensure security, cost optimization and operational monitoring for their AWS deployments. Alternate contacts allow us to contact another person about issues with your account at the right time, even if you’re unavailable. AWS will send you operational notifications such […]

With Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) you can spin up a virtual server or instance of various sizes that run on system composed of server, storage, and network hardware. AWS uses status checks to monitor the system on which an EC2 instance runs and detects underlying problems with your instance. These checks are performed […]

Amazon CloudWatch Alarms is natively integrated with Amazon CloudWatch metrics. Many AWS services send metrics to CloudWatch, and AWS also offers many approaches that let you emit your applications’ metrics as custom metrics. CloudWatch Alarms let you monitor the metrics changes when crossing a static threshold or falling out of an anomaly detection band. Furthermore, […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the sunsetting of CloudEndure Migration and AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS), both used primarily for accelerating lift-and-shift (re-host) migrations to AWS. AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) simplifies and accelerates your re-host migrations to AWS. You can quickly migrate your virtual, physical, or cloud-based servers to AWS with minimal […]