Category: Best Practices

Many of our customers are scaling their AWS environment to meet the growing needs of their businesses. They are building multi-VPC environments and interconnecting them with on-premises through AWS Site-to-Site VPN connection or AWS Direct Connect. As the number of projects grow customers have also adopted multi-account strategy using AWS Control Tower. This has helped […]

The AWS pay-as-you-go model is ideal for customers looking to optimize their infrastructure costs in the cloud. A simple way to achieve significant savings is to stop Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances when they aren’t being used, for example, outside of business hours. This approach can reduce EC2 instances utilization and reduce the […]

Organon has been exploring Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide a simple, efficient way to their end users to easily provision cloud infrastructure across multiple accounts and regions. Additionally, they needed to ensure security, management, governance and compliance on the AWS services to follow GxP regulations. Organon uses ServiceNow as the enterprise IT Service Management […]

AWS Audit Manager is a fully-managed service that provides prebuilt frameworks for common industry standards and regulations, and that automates the continual collection of evidence to help you prepare for an audit. The continuous and automated gathering of evidence related to your AWS resource usage helps simplify risk assessment and compliance with regulations and industry […]

Are you looking for ways to optimize your costs on AWS? Are you ensuring that you are taking advantage of all the cost-saving features and services that AWS offers? If not, you should be! In this blog post, we will discuss how to use AWS Well-Architected  and AWS Trusted Advisor to achieve data-driven insights that […]

When you have an application that relies on a specific Windows service being up and running, knowing the status of this service can be a useful part of your observability solution. This service status data can be displayed on dashboards, used to create alarms, or used to trigger automated resolutions. This post presents a solution […]

Mainframe applications often execute business critical functions which have to be resilient, scalable, and cost efficient. When migrating and modernizing these applications with AWS, it is important to design an application and infrastructure architecture meeting the performance requirements while optimizing the cost and satisfying availability and scalability needs. This applies to both online and batch […]

This blog post was jointly contributed by Kanishk Mahajan, AWS and Dominic Medsker, Moody’s Customers routinely leverage 3rd party agent-based packages and vulnerability management tools, such as CrowdStrike, TrendMicro, and Tenable, to securetheir AWS environments. AWS supports distribution of third-party agents with AWS Systems Manager Distributor (Distributor). Distributor lets you package your own software or […]

In this blog post, learn how to scale out an operational readiness review (ORR) in your organization by using the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool) and its Custom Lens capability. The AWS WA Tool ‘Custom Lens’ feature was launched in Nov 2021 and makes it a single place for you to review and measure best practices across your […]

EC2 Image Builder is a fully-managed AWS service that simplifies the creation, management, and deployment of golden server and container images. The images are built using an automation pipeline that is customizable for customers, enabling them to create images that are pre-installed and pre-configured with software and packages to meet specific IT requirements. The service […]