AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Category: Thought Leadership

Automate migrated servers to automatically join an Active Directory domain using AWS Application Migration service and AWS Systems Manager

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) simplifies and expedites your migration to AWS by automatically converting your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. The post-launch actions feature in MGN allow you to control and automate actions performed after your servers have been launched in AWS. You can use predefined […]

Organizational culture for Cloud Adoption

Maximize Cloud Adoption Benefits with a Well-Architected Organizational Culture

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 […]

Use AWS Systems Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) operations management

A hybrid cloud strategy creates management and governance challenges for our customers. These challenges include maintaining consistent cloud security and compliance policies across hybrid VMC and cloud environments, providing a single pane of glass for visualizing and acting on operational data, and providing deployment automation and control of cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud environments. VMware […]

Maximize Cloud Benefits by Modernizing with AWS ModAx

“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 […]

Accelerate Your Enterprise On-Premises Migration to AWS Cloud

In this blog post, we will explore the top five guiding principles that you need to address before starting a large-scale migration from on-premises to the AWS cloud. As the AWS Professional Services team, the authors bring their combined experience in leading large migrations involving thousands of applications in datacenter exit projects across Healthcare & Life […]

Managing Technical Diversity and Migration Capability in Mergers and Acquisitions

In Mergers and Acquisitions, the need to understand and manage technical diversity and migration readiness is paramount to ensure cohesion and continued success for the combined organization. This blog post discusses some of the considerations in this space and highlights existing AWS Mechanisms that can help organizations through this process across three phases: Assess, Mobilize, […]

A sneak peek at the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) sessions for re:Inforce 2023

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code secure150off to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. AWS re:Inforce is just around the corner and this post covers sessions on cloud governance, risk management, and compliance that you should add to your agenda. AWS re:Inforce is a security learning conference […]

Align Business and IT to achieve and sustain PCI DSS compliance

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) contains hundreds of individual requirements that apply to broad swaths of an organization’s personnel and IT landscape. PCI DSS compliance can be a challenge for customers involved with payments and for those that interact with credit and debit cardholder data. The PCI DSS refers to this […]

AWS Recognized as a Leader in the 2023 ISG Provider Lens for Mainframe Application Modernization Software

Industry analyst firm Information Services Group, Inc. (ISG) has published its annual ISG Provider Lens “Mainframes – Services and Solutions” reports. These reports assess the current market positioning of vendors offering mainframe application modernization software to enterprises, based on the depth of their service offerings and market presence. AWS Mainframe Modernization service has marked its […]