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Category: Best Practices

Continuously optimize your operational excellence posture through AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor continuously evaluates your AWS environment using best practice checks in the categories of cost optimization, performance, resilience, security, service limits, and operational excellence and recommends actions to remediate any deviations from AWS best practices in the AWS Well-Architected Framework. AWS Well-Architected Framework is a collection of architectural best practices and guidance to […]

Disaster Recovery (DR) Failover to the Disconnected Edge

Disaster Recovery (DR) Failover to the Disconnected Edge

Introduction Many enterprises rely on AWS to host the entirety of their infrastructure due to the inherent advantages of cloud computing. However, some enterprises operate mission critical workloads from remote areas at an increased risk to lose external network connectivity. For instance, a research facility located in a remote desert, an oil rig in international […]

How to drive the discussions around carbon footprint reduction to support modernization and migration to the Cloud?

A Gartner, Inc. survey revealed that 87% of business leaders expect to increase their organization’s investment in sustainability over the next two years. This blog aims to equip Information Technology (IT) teams with the necessary resources to start the conversation with business leaders and prepare a compelling business case that highlights the opportunity for carbon […]

Improving Mergers & Acquisitions Due Diligence with AWS Audit Manager

The purpose of this narrative is to provide guidance for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) Due Diligence stakeholders on how to leverage AWS Audit Manager to support compliance and risk assessments during technical due diligence. The target audience of this guidance includes practitioners that support diligence, integration, corporate development (CorpDev), technology/IT, auditing, and advisory activities during […]

Achieve domain consistency in event-driven architectures

Application modernization is an important and growing migration strategy for many businesses. Most applications begin as a monolith, focusing on a specific business use case. As businesses grow, so does the complexity and number of business use-cases that their monoliths must support. This causes monolith application components to be tightly coupled and less cohesive, making […]

Top considerations for Flash sale events

Introduction Flash sale events happen when online stores offer deep discounts, promotions on their products or sell unique inventory for a short period, and product launches. The inventory behind these sales is usually low, high demand and the promotions are valid for only the short sale period. Flash sales often see a steep increase in […]

Know Before You Go: AWS-re-Invent-2023, AWS Management Console

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS Management Console

New this year, the AWS Customer Experience team has tips to help you enhance your re:Invent experience and learn about various improvements that make AWS even easier to use. Meet us at our kiosks in the AWS Village and be sure to check out the sessions below. Our sessions will cover best practices for managing […]

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2023 Cloud Governance and Compliance

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2023, in Las Vegas from Nov 27 to Dec 1. Whether you’re a seasoned re:Invent veteran or a first-timer, the excitement and opportunities of AWS re:Invent never cease to amaze. With a total of 96 sessions covering the solution areas that […]

Monitoring GPU workloads on Amazon EKS using AWS managed open-source services

As machine learning (ML) workloads continue to grow in popularity, many customers are looking to run them on Kubernetes with graphics processing unit (GPU) support. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by NVIDIA GPUs deliver the scalable performance needed for fast ML training and cost-effective ML inference. Monitoring GPU utilization gives valuable information for researchers working […]

Know Before You Go — AWS re:Invent 2023 Monitoring and Observability, and Centralized Operations Management

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2023 Monitoring and Observability, and Centralized Operations Management

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas from Nov 27 to Dec 1. Whether you’re a seasoned re:Invent veteran or a first-timer, the excitement and opportunities of AWS re:Invent never cease to amaze. With a total of 96 sessions covering the solution areas that […]