Category: Management & Governance

Refactoring legacy applications and infrastructure can be daunting. From navigating legacy codebase, identifying domains to decompose, where to start, what patterns to adopt, teams can quickly find themselves paralyzed even before they start. AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces is the new starting point for incremental app refactor that makes it easy to manage the refactoring […]

As a Solution Architect at AWS, my customers regularly ask how to automate everyday operations within their cloud environment. Their use cases include a variety of operational needs, such as provisioning new resources within an AWS account, and patching/updating managed Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. They are also focused on cost management with […]

[Update on May/14/2024] Minor update to the services that depend on AWS Config recorder and why this change should be thought through carefully. [Update on July/26/2023] AWS Config recorder has recently provided support for excluding resource types from configuration change tracking, prior to this change all resource types needed to be explicitly listed. This blog […]

In this post, you’ll learn how to utilize AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) and AWS Resilience Hub to refactor a simple serverless application. Resilience Hub lets you define, validate, and track the resiliency of your AWS application. Resilience Hub integrates with AWS FIS, a chaos engineering service, to provide fault-injection simulations of real-world failures. These […]

Monitoring AWS services comprising of a customer workload with Amazon CloudWatch is important for resiliency of a workload. Customers can bring their CloudWatch data alongside their existing Prometheus data sources to improve their ability to join or query across for a holistic view of their systems. The Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless […]

“Everything fails, all the time”, a famous quote from Werner Vogels, VP and CTO of Amazon.com. When you design and build an application, a typical goal is to have it working, the next is to keep it running, no matter what disruptions may occur. It is crucial to achieve resiliency, but you need to consider […]

Customers operating in highly-regulated spaces often tell us about the compliance challenges that they face when procuring commercial software in the cloud. This is especially true for federal customers subject to the GSA Schedule , or state and local customers operating under NASPO Value Point. Procurements in this space often require negotiated purchasing agreements and […]

Introduction AWS customers consider Lift & Shift as the first increment of value delivery in their cloud adoption journey. Following this strategy customers will have benefits of speed, cost reduction, business agility, operational resiliency, and staff productivity. As part of the migration plan they will adopt a multi-account strategy to establish their AWS foundation at […]

This year, AWS was recognized for the first time as a Challenger in the 2022 Gartner Application Performance Monitoring and Observability (APM) Magic Quadrant. This is the first time AWS is recognized in the report’s 12-year history. The report is published annually and assesses vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. […]

To establish a strong foundation for efficiently and safely operating your workloads in the cloud, you must consider how you will monitor the health of your workloads. As described in the AWS Well-Architected Operational Excellence pillar, one of the cloud’s design principles for operational excellence is “Anticipate Failure.” Therefore, design your cloud operations with proactive […]