Category: Management Tools

Using AWS Control Tower in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions The recent announcement of AWS Control Tower achieves FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions reminds us that it is a good time to review how to implement a well-architected multi-account strategy. This helps customers quickly build a baseline multi-account environment while having access […]

Organizations operating mission-critical workloads on AWS, need the ability to analyze and respond to AWS service events in a timely manner to maintain operational excellence. AWS Health sends AWS Health events on behalf of other AWS services with three main categories: notifications on account administration and security, operational issues that affect AWS services, and scheduled […]

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As a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, you can benefit from a SaaS operating model in a number of ways. One of the most impactful benefits you can realize is improvements to your operational efficiency, and one of the fundamental techniques you can leverage is to maintain a single software version for all your […]

Many customers have successfully migrated on-premises or cloud-based applications to AWS using the AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN). Customers commonly migrate their applications to a number of different AWS Accounts that are part of an AWS Organization, in line with the best practices of establishing a multi-account AWS environment. When using AWS MGN, the […]

Introduction Lambda@Edge is a powerful feature of Amazon CloudFront that allows you to execute serverless code closer to your application users, resulting in improved performance and reduced latency. By distributing Lambda@Edge functions to edge locations worldwide, AWS ensures that the code executes closer to end users, providing faster response times. Moreover, the serverless nature of […]

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers initiate large-scale cloud migrations to achieve specific business outcomes. The reasons for migration include consolidating or vacating data centres, adopting a cloud-first strategy, increasing agility and staff productivity, and reducing the total cost of ownership for IT. Using repeatable patterns for migrating workloads are a great way to jumpstart […]

Introduction Gaining insights and managing large Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) fleet that is spread across multiple accounts and regions can be a challenging task. It’s crucial to have a quick and efficient method to identify which instances are managed by AWS Systems Manager (SSM) and gather detailed information about the instances that are […]

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers struggle to keep cloud costs under control while allowing employees to innovate and develop their AWS skills. We talk to technology leaders every day who rank controlling cloud spend among their top concerns. Those same leaders don’t want to stifle innovation or restrict employee’s ability to learn AWS. Using […]

Customers can incorporate the CfnGuardValidator plugin into their AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) application to accelerate their application development process. This acceleration stems from ensuring that the deployed resources comply with both organizational policy and AWS best practices. Without the plugin, however, ensuing policy compliance can often be an iterative process. Organizations may implement […]