AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog

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How Singlife used AWS Professional Services, AWS Managed Services and AWS Migration Programs to build and accomplish their Cloud Migration Plan

Singlife with Aviva or Singlife, is a Singaporean insurance company that announced in December 2022 they are going all in on AWS and will migrate their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud by end 2023. The depth and breadth of AWS services will enable Singlife to improve speed-to-market of new products and enhance the company’s […]

Audit Manager support for HIPAA Omnibus

The security of Protected Health Information (PHI) is at the center of the data universe for healthcare organizations. AWS Audit Manager helps healthcare companies manage their regulatory requirements with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) healthcare standard, gathering evidence using automation to support their compliance and audit needs. The current HIPAA pre-built framework […]

How Cloud-Mature Enterprises Succeed

In this blog, we will discuss the strategies employed by cloud-mature enterprises, examine key pillars of cloud maturity, and contrast how mature and aspiring enterprises operate in these areas. You will leave here being able to answer this question, “What does a mature cloud organization look like?” The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a change in the […]

How to receive notifications of AWS AppConfig deployment events

AWS AppConfig, a capability of AWS System Manager, allows you to quickly and confidently deploy new features using feature flags, or update your software behavior using operational flags, in a safer and validated way. Feature flags help teams move faster by decoupling a deployment of code from the release of a feature. Code can be […]

Build Cloud Operations skills using the new AWS Observability Training

Full-stack observability at AWS includes AWS-native, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and open-source solutions, giving you the ability to understand what is happening across your technology stack at any time. AWS Observability lets you collect, correlate, aggregate, and analyze telemetry in your network, infrastructure, and applications in the cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments so you can gain […]

Use AWS Systems Manager for Multicloud operations management

A multicloud strategy creates management and governance challenges for our customers. These challenges include maintaining consistent cloud security and compliance policies across cloud providers, providing a single pane of glass for visualizing and acting on operational data, and providing deployment automation and control of cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud environments. AWS Cloud Operations services lets […]

Enable management of your Amazon EC2 instances in AWS Systems Manager using Default Host Management Configuration

Update 01/2024: In October 2023, AWS Systems Manager announced the ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default for all EC2 instances in an organization using Systems Manager Quick Setup. You can begin utilizing the benefits of DHMC in just a few clicks from the Quick Setup console. For more information, see Default Host Management […]

A detailed overview of Trusted Advisor Organizational Dashboard

As your business grows on Amazon Web Services (AWS), so too does the need to ensure your resources are optimized and following AWS best practices. AWS Trusted Advisor identifies ways to improve your AWS infrastructure across 5 unique pillars: Security, Performance, Cost Optimization, Fault Tolerance, and AWS Service Quotas. The AWS Support API allows customers […]

Choose, create, and track your unit metrics for your applications

When you operate in the variable spend model of the Cloud, business growth can translate into a variable bill that reflects the activity of your workloads in your environment. For some customers, a monthly increase in their AWS bill is a normal part of growth, but for many, is an unwanted outcome. Therefore, it is […]

Centrally track Oracle database licenses in AWS Organizations using AWS License Manager and AWS Systems Manager

As you continue to run your business-critical workloads in hybrid environments, you’ll most likely face the challenges of license management of products, such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM due to limited visibility and governance. You’ll most likely eventually over-provision licenses to avoid the headache with third-party license providers or under-provisioning licenses, only to face […]