Category: Customer Solutions

AWS CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing user and API activity on AWS for audit, security, and operational purposes. You can aggregate and immutably store your activity events, and run SQL-based queries for search and analysis. In Jan 2023, AWS announced the support of ingestion for activity events […]

Does your organization have custom configuration requirements for your resources? Do you find it challenging to compare actual resource configuration settings against your configuration requirements? Today, you can leverage a new public repository of sample AWS Config custom rules using AWS CloudFormation Guard to help you address these challenges. AWS Config allows you to evaluate actual […]

AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) allows customers to provision and customize their account in AWS Control Tower using Terraform. AFT can also import existing AWS Control Tower managed accounts into AFT management, allowing you to manage the global and account-specific customization at scale using Terraform. We hear from customers that they want […]

Introduction Monitoring is a critical aspect of maintaining the health and performance of any distributed system. In the case of Apache Kafka-based applications, configuring robust monitoring on kafka clusters becomes more crucial due to the real-time nature of data processing. This blog is intended for individuals or organizations utilizing Apache Kafka-based applications, specifically those facing […]

Do you have entire fleets of dynamically changing resources that you are struggling to easily monitor and set alarm on? Do you have a ton of dangling alarms that you are paying for and that is cluttering your view? Are you looking for a simplified way to create alarms that automatically adjusts to resources that […]

Introduction This blog post is a continuation of Part 1. To recap, as your organization adopts AWS, you will likely leverage multi-account architectures to meet your requirements. We introduced some foundational patterns to prepare the environments for centralized operations and governance using AWS Cloud Operations services. In this blog (Part 2), we will show you […]

Organizational culture, often described as the “personality” of an organization, determines how people work, interact, and respond to change and challenges. There is strong recognition, supported by evidence, that an organization’s culture is a powerful determinant of transformation success. Culture’s impact is magnified in cloud transformation, where the cloud’s extraordinary capabilities are limited only by […]

“Lifting and shifting” your on-premises workloads to the cloud is a great option to move to the cloud quickly. Organizations that take this approach are in a good position to take advantage of the benefits of modernization in the cloud. While the initial move to the cloud may provide cost savings and improved scalability, modernizing […]

Introduction Do you have AWS resources deployed with Terraform where you would like to perform specific operations on schedule while avoiding drift in state? Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that helps you build, change, and version cloud and on-premise resources safely and efficiently. This post describes a pattern that can be used to […]

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 […]