AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
Category: AWS CloudFormation
Duplicating infrastructure on AWS
In large enterprise organizations, it’s challenging to maintain standardization across environments. This is especially true if these environments are provisioned in a self-service manner—and even more so when new users access these provisioning services. Once you have the resources deployed into an environment, it can be hard, or even impossible, to change it. In case […]
Using lifecycle events to track AWS Control Tower actions and trigger automated workflows
Many customers that I work with are creating and provisioning new accounts using AWS Control Tower. They prefer an AWS native solution for creating their environment knowing that it will be based upon documented AWS Best Practices. As customers scale their account creation, there exists an opportunity to use additional Control Tower features to perform […]
Building a fully automated Dow Jones Asset Tracking System on AWS
Dow Jones is a global provider of news and business information, delivering content to consumers and organizations around the world across multiple formats, including print, digital, mobile and live events. Dow Jones has produced unrivaled quality content for more than 130 years and today has one of the world’s largest news gathering operations globally. It […]
Introducing AWS Config Multi-Account, Multi-Region support for Advanced Query
I’m excited to introduce you to our latest feature addition, AWS Config Advanced Query. Advanced query, launched last year, makes it easy to query the resource configuration properties of your AWS resources for audit, compliance, or operational troubleshooting using simple SQL-like queries. With our latest release, you can now use Advanced query with configuration aggregators, enabling you […]
AWS CloudFormation: Signed, sealed, and deployed
State Street Corporation is a global bank that is responsible for managing over 10% of the world’s wealth. It also focuses on engineering better outcomes for its investors and customers, striving to bring innovative solutions to market and enhance customer value. To manage complexity and provide a stable agile platform, State Street uses Infrastructure as […]
Enabling self-service provisioning of AWS resources with AWS Control Tower
Customers provision new accounts in AWS Control Tower whenever they are on-boarding new business units or setting up application workloads. In some cases, organizations also want their cloud users, developers, and data scientists to deploy self-service standardized and secure patterns and architectures with the new account. Here are a few examples: A developer or cloud […]
How to take advantage of AWS Control Tower and CloudEndure to migrate workloads to AWS
June 22, 2021: This blog post describes CloudEndure Migration. AWS Application Migration Service, the next generation of CloudEndure Migration, is now the recommended service for lift-and-shift migrations to AWS. Most of the customers we work with want to migrate their existing workloads to an AWS environment. They prefer to follow documented AWS best practices, especially […]
Enabling experimentation and innovation in the cloud at SulAmérica Seguros
SulAmérica Seguros is Brazil’s largest independent insurer. The company offers one-stop shopping with a diversified business offering (healthcare; auto insurance; life insurance; pension plans; savings bonds; and asset management). Founded in 1895, SulAmérica is Brazil’s: Third largest insurer in the healthcare and dental market Fifth largest in the auto insurance market Ninth largest in the […]
Leveraging AWS CloudFormation to create an immutable infrastructure at Nubank
Bruno Halley Schaefer, software engineer, Nubank Hugo Carvalho, senior solutions architect, AWS Marcelo Nunes, senior technical account manager, AWS Enterprise Support Team Nubank, a Brazilian company that is one of the world’s largest independent digital banks, is innovatively transforming Latin America’s financial landscape by providing transparent, simple, and efficient services. The company fights complexity […]
How to Create an AWS Cross-Account Support Case Dashboard
At AWS, our customer obsession drives us to leave no stone unturned in helping our customers achieve success. Therefore, when a customer finds an interesting way to create valuable functionality using a combination of AWS services, we want to let our other customers know about it so they can also reap the benefits. A great […]