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Category: Technical How-to

AWS Application Migration Service best practices

Introduction Large-scale cloud migrations present challenges such as multiple tasks, scaling complexities, manual processes, numerous tools, and stakeholders involvement that could be difficult to integrate at times. AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is designed to overcome these challenges for large and complex migrations that require re-hosting (also referred to as “lift and shift” migration). […]

Monitoring best practices for AWS Outposts

Monitoring best practices for AWS Outposts

AWS Outposts allows you to run AWS infrastructure and services on-premises for a consistent fully managed hybrid experience. Outposts supports workloads and devices requiring low latency access to on-premises systems, local data processing, data residency, and application migration with local system inter dependencies. Outposts offers customers Amazon CloudWatch metrics and AWS Health events to effectively […]

Estimating AWS Config recorder costs and usage using AWS CloudTrail

AWS Config is a service that tracks configuration changes of AWS resources in your AWS account.  AWS Config uses the configuration recorder to create a configuration item whenever it detects a change to a resource type that it is recording. For example, if AWS Config is recording Amazon S3 buckets, AWS Config creates a configuration […]

Report and visualize your AWS Service Catalog estate

AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalog of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. In addition, organizations can centrally manage deployed IT services, applications, resources, and metadata. This helps you […]

Reduce incident management response times for container workloads using AWS Chatbot

One of the key focus areas for customers running their mission-critical container workloads on AWS, is to be able to analyze and act on operational events quickly. Getting real-time visibility into performance issues, traffic spikes, infrastructure events and security threats can enable teams to quickly address issues and prevent potential downtime. AWS Chatbot helps teams […]

Automating Amazon CloudWatch Alarm Cleanup at Scale

Automating Amazon CloudWatch Alarm Cleanup at Scale

Do you have thousands of Amazon CloudWatch alarms across AWS Regions and want to quickly identify which ones are low-value alarms or misconfigured alarms across regions? Are you looking for ways to identify alarms which are in ‘ALARM’ or ‘IN_SUFFICIENT’ state for several days and need to be revisited? Do you need a cleanup mechanism […]

Tracking and remediating non-compliant resources by integrating AWS Config and Atlassian Jira Service Management through automated webhooks

Tracking and remediating non-compliant resources by integrating AWS Config and Atlassian Jira Service Management through automated webhooks

Organizations require their cloud environment to be secure and compliant according to their governance policies. AWS Config provides customers configuration details of their resources in AWS accounts. Customers can make use of AWS Config managed rules, AWS Config custom rules or conformance packs to get to know the configuration details of their resources quickly. Being aware of […]

AWS Mainframe Modernization – Refactor Legacy code base to Java using AWS Blu Insights

According to Reuters , there are 220 billion lines of code in customers’ production environments running Cobol and other legacy languages. Customers are looking to modernize their mainframe-based applications to take advantage of the AWS Cloud. These advantages help them to increase their agility, their capacity to innovate, and to benefit from the continual trends […]

Build AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks using AWS CDK

AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks let you deploy, configure, and manage AWS resources safely and at scale. You can use AWS-published runbooks or build your own to enable AWS resource management across multiple accounts and regions. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK v2) is an open-source framework that can build applications with the expressive power of […]

AWS Organizations, moving an organization member account to another organization: Part 3

In part one, we identified different features of AWS Organizations requiring guidance and consideration when you move an account from one organization in Organizations to another. We focused on Organizations Polices, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) shares, and AWS global condition context keys. In part two of the series, we identified behavior and actions when you want […]