AWS Cloud Operations Blog

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How Merck Automated AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Initialization and Monitoring

Blog is guest authored by Nasia Ullas of MSD. Enhancing the resilience and productivity of manufacturing processes is essential for pharmaceutical companies to meet business continuity objectives and innovate continuously. Merck & Co., Inc., also known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, a global bio-pharmaceutical company, mitigated resilience challenges by adopting AWS […]

Deploy AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup programmatically across your AWS Organization

AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup simplifies setting up AWS services, including Systems Manager, by automating common or recommended tasks in your AWS Organization across AWS accounts and Regions. These tasks include, creating required AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) instance profile roles and setting up operational best practices, such as periodic patch scans and inventory […]

Streamline AWS Support with AWS Chatbot and Microsoft Teams

ChatOps is a collaborative approach to operations that integrates chat platforms with automation tools and processes. It’s a way to bring together people, tools, and processes in a single chat interface to facilitate communication, collaboration, and execution of tasks within a team or organization. It is critical for an Operations team to act quickly and […]

Streamline Compliance Management with AWS Config custom rules and conformance packs

Streamline compliance management with AWS Config custom rules and conformance packs

In this blog post, we will show you how to manage your compliance controls with AWS Config custom rules (custom rules) written in AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard) domain-specific language (DSL) with use of conformance packs. AWS CloudFormation Guard, the language used to write custom policy rules is an open-source domain-specific language (DSL) and command line […]

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How to perform Failover and Failback using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) between VMware and AWS environments

Enterprises face a variety of threats such as natural disasters, cyber-attacks and technology failures that could severely disrupt operations. A comprehensive disaster recovery plan is crucial to quickly respond and recover from these events. In this blog post, we’ll show how to plan and implement a comprehensive disaster recovery solution between your VMware on-premises environment […]

Event Driven Architecture using Amazon EventBridge – Part 2

Event Driven Architecture using Amazon EventBridge – Part 2

This post is co-authored with Andy Suarez and Kevin Breton (from KnowBe4). This blog post continues the discussion from Event-Driven Architecture using Amazon EventBridge – Part 1. The previous post covered the adoption and design of an event-driven architecture by KnowBe4, a leading security awareness training provider. In this post, we highlight the development and […]

Empowering Manufacturing Innovation: How AI & GenAI Centers of Excellence can drive Modernization

Introduction Technologies such as machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and Generative AI (GenAI) unlock a new era of efficient and sustainable manufacturing while empowering the workforce. Areas where AI can be applied in manufacturing include predictive maintenance, defect detection, supply chain visibility, demand forecasting, product design, and many more. Benefits include improving uptime and […]

Accelerate testing with AWS Mainframe Modernization Application Testing

During the modernization of mainframe applications, testing is the most important and time-consuming phase. AWS Mainframe Modernization Application Testing is an AWS cloud-native service generally available and designed to reduce testing time and cost at scale. In this blog post, we will describe the testing approach, its benefits and show an Application Testing walkthrough. Mainframe […]

Optimize your cloud deployments with Prioritized Trusted Advisor recommendations in your operational workflows

AWS Trusted Advisor Priority helps you focus on the most important recommendations for optimizing your cloud deployments, improving resilience, and addressing security gaps. As an AWS Enterprise Support customer, you gain access to prioritized and context-driven recommendations, curated both by your AWS account team and machine-generated checks from AWS services. Note: AWS Trusted Advisor Priority […]

Get Disk Utilization of Your Fleet Using AWS Systems Manager Custom Inventory Types

Get Disk Utilization of Your Fleet Using AWS Systems Manager Custom Inventory Types

Some of my customers need assistance while operating their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) infrastructure. They need to: Review the disk usage of various volumes/ disks within an EC2 instance. To do it in a scalable way, one does not need to access the instance either through a Remote Desktop Session (RDP) or use […]