AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog

How Unitary achieved automatic metric collection with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus collector

This post was co-authored with Nicolas Fournier, Platform Engineer at Unitary. Every day, over 80 years’ worth of video content is uploaded online. Some of this content can also be harmful. Unitary knows that human moderators are the current gold standard for moderation, but this manual approach does not scale. While automated systems can scale, […]

Multi-tenant monitoring across accounts and regions using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Multi-tenant monitoring across accounts and regions using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

In this guest blog post, Nauman Noor (Managing Director), Fabio Dias (Cloud Developer), and Dylan Alibay (Cloud Developer) from the platform engineering team at State Street discuss their use of Amazon Managed Prometheus and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry to enable monitoring in a multi-tenant, multi-account, and multi-region environment. In the ever-evolving financial services landscape, State […]

Custom Post-launch actions and Deployment scripting using AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CodeWhisperer

In Part 1 of this series, you learned about Blue/Green testing and deployment on AWS, a key strategy that increases application availability and reduces deployment risk by simplifying the rollback process if a deployment fails. We explored live replication using AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) and introduced prebuilt post-launch actions with AWS Systems Manager […]

Accelerating Blue/Green Deployments with AWS MGN Post-Launch Actions

Customers are becoming more aware of the benefits of migrating to AWS in a world increasingly pivoting towards cloud adoption. A recent whitepaper by IDC found that customers who migrate to AWS can experience a 51% reduction in the cost of operations, a 62% increase in IT staff productivity, and a 94% reduction in downtime. […]

How to use AWS Config proactive rules and AWS CloudFormation Hooks to prevent creation of noncompliant cloud resources

Balancing developer freedom and governance controls is a key challenge faced by organizations that are adopting cloud. On one hand, developers need the freedom to innovate and develop new applications and services quickly and on the other, organizations need to maintain control over the resources used and the data processed in order to ensure compliance […]

Securing Elastic IP addresses from accidental release

Have you wondered what are the best practices in safeguarding your infrastructure from unintended release of Elastic IP addresses? In this blog, we are providing a few proactive self-service solutions to streamline IP handling and obtaining a robust environment for critical applications. Before diving into the solution, let us revisit some key concepts of AWS […]

Manage EC2 Launch Templates at scale during rehost migrations with AWS MGN

Many customers rehost their environments to AWS using AWS Application Migration Service (MGN), and have to prepare future-state configuration for every server they are migrating within each migration wave. When a migration wave includes multiple servers, customers have to manually configure multiple EC2 Launch Templates in the AWS console. For each server migrated using AWS […]

Integrate AWS Support with Amazon Connect to receive critical outbound voice notifications

Notifications for critical AWS Support cases are essential to ensure that issues that affect your workloads are addressed quickly. AWS Support sends email notifications automatically when support cases are newly created or updated in your AWS accounts, and they can be viewed in AWS Support Center, or the AWS Managed Services (AMS) console for customers […]

Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Alarm Recommendations

Amazon CloudWatch is a foundational AWS service that provides you with actionable insights into your cloud resources and applications. With Amazon CloudWatch Metrics, you can gain better visibility into your infrastructure and large-scale application performance. You can set up alarms using Amazon CloudWatch Alarms for metrics emitted by AWS services or your applications. Identifying which metrics […]

Navigating Windows Workload Modernization without Active Directory

Navigating Windows Workload Modernization without Active Directory AWS Customers often migrate Windows workloads to AWS using a lift-and-shift or modernization strategy. Modernizing is a popular choice due to the opportunity to use purpose-built cloud services and reduce TCO by lowering operational overhead and licensing costs. While modernizing, customers often need to evaluate whether they still […]