AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
Category: Migration & Transfer Services
Manage migrations to multiple AWS Accounts using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) and AWS Organizations
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 […]
How TMAP Migrated their large Oracle Database to Amazon Aurora MySQL using AWS DMS
Launched in 2002, TMAP Mobility is South Korea’s leading mobility platform with 20 million registered users and 14 million monthly active users. TMAP provides navigation services based on a wide range of real-time traffic information and data. TMAP is growing vertical offerings to its users that add value to navigation services, such as user profiles, […]
Using Single Sign-on with Azure Active Directory and Cloud Migration Factory for simplified identity management
In this blog post we’ll look at how to configure the AWS Cloud Migration Factory (CMF) solution to use SAML authentication. We will use an existing identity provider (in this case Azure Active Directory). However, this can be replicated with any IDP that offers SAML authentication. By federating existing logins and accounts with CMF, the […]
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 […]
Achieve testing success with the AWS Application Migration Service for painless and simplified cut-overs
Many customers utilize the AWS Application Migration Service to rehost their environments to AWS. A crucial aspect of testing for successful migration involves identifying dependencies on shared services. Connectivity to Microsoft Active Directory, integrations with other services and backup servers could cause unexpected behaviors during your testing and cut-over. This blog post will focus on […]
MagellanRx Modernizes Claims Adjudication Application from AIX Oracle platform to Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Oracle RDS
Customers desiring to modernize enterprise workloads from on-premises IBM AIX System p environments into AWS face portability concerns. AIX workloads do not lend themselves to a lift and shift type of migration pattern and require re-platforming or refactoring. This is due to operating systems and processor architectures in Power AIX systems and x86 Linux systems […]
Learn how the Flexibility of AWS Opens New Doors for Business Continuity
A guide for IT practitioners The “criticality” of technology that impacts our day to day lives is more pertinent and broader reaching than ever before. Nowadays, we’ve become accustomed to reliability and always on systems and can see the impact on our lives when things go wrong. Therefore, to meet customer expectations in the face […]
Migrating and automating patching at scale with AWS Application Migration Service
Since AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) has been positioned as the recommended service for (rehost) migrations to AWS, we have seen an astounding speed of new feature releases, multiple enhancements, and continuous innovation aimed to address customer needs. AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is a highly automated move and improve (rehost) solution that […]
How to test your AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery implementation
Maintaining application and data resilience in the face of an ever-evolving risk landscape is a challenge for applications with legacy architectures. These risks can include ransomware attacks, natural disasters, user error, hardware faults, and many others. Organizations want to recover workloads within appropriate timescales with minimal loss of data from an unforeseen event. Organizations seek […]
AWS Application Migration Service best practices
Introduction Large-scale cloud migrations present challenges such as multiple tasks, scaling complexities, manual processes, numerous tools, and stakeholders involvement that could be difficult to integrate at times. AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is designed to overcome these challenges for large and complex migrations that require re-hosting (also referred to as “lift and shift” migration). […]