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Migrate from mainframe CA7 job schedules to Apache Airflow in AWS

When you migrate mainframe applications to the cloud, you will usually have to migrate mainframe job schedules too. In this post, I’ll show you how to migrate mainframe CA7 job schedules to a cloud native job scheduler in AWS, how to trigger off event-based jobs, how to run streaming jobs, how to migrate CA7 database, […]

Quantify custom application metrics with Amazon CloudWatch Logs and metric filters

Customers have valuable metrics emitted to their logs. Examples include web server response times, slow queries, purchases by partners, custom application metrics, and cache hits or misses. This data has unrealized potential value for increasing observability. Consumed by Amazon CloudWatch Logs and extracted using metric filters, customers can translate this data into actual CloudWatch metrics, […]

Avoid zero-day vulnerabilities with same-day security patching using AWS Systems Manager

This post was co-authored by Jordan Koch at Veradigm. Applying operating systems patches is one of the easiest ways to secure a system from ever-changing cybersecurity threats. However, for many organizations it is one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks. Many organizations deploy operating system patches through their various environments, first applying to Development, […]

Publish the Standardized EKS cluster and container resources using AWS Service Catalog

Publish the Standardized EKS cluster and container resources using AWS Service Catalog The pace of application development in modern cloud native environments is continuing to grow faster along with business innovation. Many companies are having difficulty figuring out how to maintain their governance best practices and compliance requirements while sustaining agile innovation culture. AWS Service […]

Automate time series network visualizations for AWS PrivateLink using Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights

AWS PrivateLink is a highly available, scalable technology that lets you connect your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to supported AWS services without requiring public internet traversal. It also lets you privately connect to services hosted by other AWS accounts (VPC endpoint services) and supported AWS Marketplace partner services. Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is a […]

Use AWS Systems Manager Automation to automate Snowflake storage integrations with Amazon S3

AWS Systems Manager lets you safely automate common and repetitive IT operations and management tasks. Furthermore, Systems Manager Automation lets you use predefined playbooks, or you can build, run, and share wiki-style automated playbooks to enable AWS resource management across multiple accounts and AWS Regions. Snowflake, the Data Cloud, is an APN Partner that provides […]

How CloudFix uses AWS Systems Manager Change Manager to deliver cost savings

For years, the CloudFix team has managed and maintained 120+ AWS hosted SaaS products across hundreds of AWS accounts. Although this model follows established AWS best practices, the team’s scope introduced operational challenges. Their team needed a way to identify cost-saving opportunities across their applications without making architectural compromises or introducing service disruption. The team […]

Organizing your AWS Control Tower landing zone with nested OUs

AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way for you to set up and govern your AWS environment, or landing zone, following prescriptive AWS best practices managed on your behalf. AWS Control Tower orchestrates multiple AWS services (AWS Organizations, AWS CloudFormation StackSets, Amazon S3, AWS Single Sign-On, AWS Config, AWS CloudTrail) to build a landing zone […]

Manage AWS account alternate contacts with Terraform

Managing AWS billing, support and service team notifications, and potential security events are critical for customers to ensure security, cost optimization and operational monitoring for their AWS deployments. Alternate contacts allow us to contact another person about issues with your account at the right time, even if you’re unavailable. AWS will send you operational notifications such […]

Monitoring underlying hardware failures for EC2 instances by logging them with Amazon OpenSearch Service

With Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) you can spin up a virtual server or instance of various sizes that run on system composed of server, storage, and network hardware. AWS uses status checks to monitor the system on which an EC2 instance runs and detects underlying problems with your instance. These checks are performed […]