AWS Cloud Operations Blog

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 […]

Keywords: AWS Systems Manager, Best Practices, Customer Solutions, Management & Governance, Management Tools, Technical How-to, Amazon Quicksight, AWS Backup. Many customers are migrating to AWS to leverage cost reduction, boost staff productivity, improve operational resilience, and increase business agility. As they adopt AWS, they will leverage multi-account architectures to meet business, governance, security and operational […]

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, 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 […]

The Prometheus Operator allows cluster administrators to manage Prometheus clusters running in Kubernetes. It makes it easy to deploy and manage Prometheus via native Kubernetes components. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how you can deploy Prometheus via the Prometheus Operator, and how you can easily migrate your monitoring workloads to take advantage of […]

Introduction Ensuring resilience, the ability for a system to recover from a failure induced by load, attacks, and other issues, is a shared responsibility that underpins the reliability of your workloads. While AWS provides the resilient underlying cloud infrastructure, customers are tasked with maintaining the resilience of their applications. In this landscape of joint responsibility, […]

Many customers utilize the AWS Application Migration Service to rehost their environments to AWS. A crucial aspect of testing for successful migration involves identifying dependencies on shared services. Connectivity to Microsoft Active Directory, integrations with other services and backup servers could cause unexpected behaviors during your testing and cut-over. This blog post will focus on […]

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now provides internet performance and availability measurements for user traffic that accesses specific Network Load Balancers. Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor (Internet Monitor) now provides the ability to get internet performance and availability measurements for user traffic to specific Network Load Balancers (NLBs). This blog post describes how this new capability can […]

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 […]

In this blog post, we present best practices and resources to help you build, validate, and improve an AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens. The AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens is a feature of the AWS Well-Architected Tool that lets you bring your own content and best practices complementing the existing Well-Architected Framework that allow you to assess […]