AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog

Category: Management Tools

Leveraging Infrastructure as Code for AWS Mainframe Modernization with AWS CloudFormation

AWS Mainframe Modernization service supports AWS CloudFormation templates to manage environments and applications, allowing customers to leverage best practices of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and DevOps. This post defines the architectural improvements fostered by CloudFormation for mainframe applications modernized with AWS cloud. We’ll then cover the benefits of IaC in specific contexts for modernized mainframe applications. We’ll […]

Manage continuous compliance by using AWS Config Configuration Recorder resource type

AWS Config recently added support for configuration recorder as a resource type. The AWS::Config::ConfigurationRecorder resource is a configuration item (CI) for configuration recorder that tracks changes to the state of AWS Config configuration recorder (configuration recorder). You can use this CI to check if the state of the configuration recorder has changed (drifted), from its […]

Optimizing alarm lifecycle with Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights alarms

Optimizing alarm lifecycle with Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights alarms

Do you have entire fleets of dynamically changing resources that you are struggling to easily monitor and set alarm on? Do you have a ton of dangling alarms that you are paying for and that is cluttering your view? Are you looking for a simplified way to create alarms that automatically adjusts to resources that […]

Increase visibility and governance on cloud with AWS Cloud Operations services – Part 2

Introduction This blog post is a continuation of Part 1. To recap, as your organization adopts AWS, you will likely leverage multi-account architectures to meet your requirements. We introduced some foundational patterns to prepare the environments for centralized operations and governance using AWS Cloud Operations services. In this blog (Part 2), we will show you […]

Increase visibility and governance on cloud with AWS Cloud Operations services – Part 1

Keywords: AWS Systems Manager, Best Practices, Customer Solutions, Management & Governance, Management Tools, Technical How-to, Amazon Quicksight, AWS Backup. Many customers are migrating to AWS to leverage cost reduction, boost staff productivity, improve operational resilience, and increase business agility. As they adopt AWS, they will leverage multi-account architectures to meet business, governance, security and operational […]

Automate migrated servers to automatically join an Active Directory domain using AWS Application Migration service and AWS Systems Manager

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) simplifies and expedites your migration to AWS by automatically converting your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. The post-launch actions feature in MGN allow you to control and automate actions performed after your servers have been launched in AWS. You can use predefined […]

Migrating to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus with the Prometheus Operator

The Prometheus Operator allows cluster administrators to manage Prometheus clusters running in Kubernetes. It makes it easy to deploy and manage Prometheus via native Kubernetes components. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how you can deploy Prometheus via the Prometheus Operator, and how you can easily migrate your monitoring workloads to take advantage of […]

Enhance observability for Network Load Balancers using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor

Enhance observability for Network Load Balancers using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now provides internet performance and availability measurements for user traffic that accesses specific Network Load Balancers. Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor (Internet Monitor) now provides the ability to get internet performance and availability measurements for user traffic to specific Network Load Balancers (NLBs). This blog post describes how this new capability can […]

Use AWS Systems Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) operations management

A hybrid cloud strategy creates management and governance challenges for our customers. These challenges include maintaining consistent cloud security and compliance policies across hybrid VMC and cloud environments, 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. VMware […]

Best Practices for the Custom Lens Lifecycle: Measure and Improve

In this blog post, we present best practices and resources to help you build, validate, and improve an AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens. The AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens is a feature of the AWS Well-Architected Tool that lets you bring your own content and best practices complementing the existing Well-Architected Framework that allow you to assess […]