AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog

Accelerate Modernization outcomes with Automation

Introduction As organizations move towards modernizing their workloads in the cloud, there are key capabilities that need to be in place to enable the success of the modernization journey. The capabilities include organization structure, modernization strategy, automation, team readiness, and stakeholder sponsorship. Out of these, automation plays an outsized role in realizing the benefits of […]

Using Puppet to automate AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery for Amazon EC2 instances at scale

Customers improve their disaster recovery posture with automation. Automation reduces the operational overhead of managing source servers and automatically implementing your disaster recovery strategy. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery replicates your servers, such as Amazon EC2 instances. In the case of a disaster, you can use AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery to recover your application servers. It […]

The Mergers & Acquisitions Cloud Center of Excellence (M&A CCoE) – Part 2: Roles and Responsibilities

This blog post is part 2 of a series focused on the Mergers & Acquisitions Cloud Center of Excellence (M&A CCoE). In part 1, we introduced the concept of the M&A CCoE. In this blog post, we discuss different roles and responsibilities associated with CCoEs. This post is written from the perspective of a buy-side […]

The Mergers & Acquisitions Cloud Center of Excellence (M&A CCoE) – Part 1

The purpose of this two-part blog post series is to provide high-level guidance and principles to Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) stakeholders on M&A Cloud Centers of Excellence (CCoEs). In this blog post, we introduce the concept of an M&A CCoE. In Part 2 of this series, we detail specific roles and responsibilities for M&A CCoEs. […]

Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake one-year extendable retention pricing option

In 2022 Amazon Web Services (AWS) released AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed audit and security lake that allows you to aggregate, immutably store, visualize, and query your activity logs for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting.  Working backwards from our customers we have added capabilities to CloudTrail Lake such as the ability to copy CloudTrail events into […]

Monitoring MongoDB Atlas with AWS Managed Grafana and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Monitoring MongoDB Atlas with AWS Managed Grafana and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Many customers use MongoDB Atlas to store data from their modern business-critical applications. MongoDB Atlas provides highly a scalable, secure, highly-available and fully managed data platform. Operational monitoring of MongoDB Atlas clusters has a number of benefits. It helps prevent application downtime and customer disruptions, ensuring healthy functioning of MongoDB Atlas clusters. MongoDB Atlas supports […]

Extend your Amazon Managed Grafana experience with Grafana community plugins

Today, Amazon Managed Grafana announces a new self-service plugin management experience for Grafana community plugins, that enables you to unify data from a wider variety of data sources with visualizations tailored to analyze your unique datasets. Grafana community plugins provide an expansive array of tailor-made solutions to address diverse visualization use cases. With this release, […]

Use AWS Config inventory and compliance dashboards for a unified view of resource inventory and compliance

We recently announced AWS Config compliance and inventory dashboards, a new AWS Config feature, that provides unified dashboards for AWS resource configurations and compliance across AWS accounts, AWS regions, or an AWS Organization. In this blog post, I will walk you through the dashboards and widgets that are included as of today for this launch. […]

Analyzing Amazon Lex conversation log data with Amazon Managed Grafana

To support business and internal processes, organizations are increasing their use of conversational interfaces. They offer opportunities for more availability, improved service levels, and reduced costs. As these conversational services become more important, so, does the need to monitor performance and effectiveness of these interfaces with analytics and dashboards. This analysis is used to drive […]

Top considerations for Flash sale events

Introduction Flash sale events happen when online stores offer deep discounts, promotions on their products or sell unique inventory for a short period, and product launches. The inventory behind these sales is usually low, high demand and the promotions are valid for only the short sale period. Flash sales often see a steep increase in […]