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Streamlining AWS Application Migration Service Replication Agent deployment using MGN connector

AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is AWS’s recommended service for migrations to AWS. It simplifies and expedites migrating your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure platforms to run natively on AWS. Over the last year, we’ve shared with you several major updates to the MGN service, focusing on offering customers more ways […]

Learn how to design landing zone architectures with new AWS Control Tower training

Do you or your organization need solutions to help reach your Cloud Governance objectives as you migrate to AWS? How do you stay agile and innovate faster while staying secure?Designing and building a landing zone is a key step in the migration journey to the AWS cloud. A well-architected landing zone helps accelerate migration and […]

AWS Health Events Intelligence Dashboards & Insights

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 […]

Choice Hotels adopts Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus for operational excellence and cost efficiency

This post was co-written with Stephen Cihak, Senior Director , Abhiram Madadi, Principal Engineer and Gopi Akula, Senior Manager at Choice Hotels Who is Choice Hotels? Choice Hotels International is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. A challenger in the upscale segment and a leader in midscale and extended stay, Choice has […]

Using AWS AppConfig to Manage Multi-Tenant SaaS Configurations

Using AWS AppConfig to Manage Multi-Tenant SaaS Configurations

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 […]

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, […]

Automate insights for your EC2 fleets across AWS accounts and regions

Automate insights for your EC2 fleets across AWS accounts and regions

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 […]

Provision sandbox accounts with budget limits to reduce costs using AWS Control Tower

Provision sandbox accounts with budget limits to reduce costs using AWS Control Tower

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 […]

Accelerating development with AWS CDK plugin – CfnGuardValidator

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 […]