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How to Manage Licenses for Servers Migrating to AWS using AWS License Manager

We often see large enterprises migrating their workloads to AWS, reaping the benefits of the state-of-the-art migration tool AWS Application Migration Service, and they prefer migrating their Microsoft workloads along with licenses. This post will show how we can lift and shift large enterprise workloads with Windows Bring Your Own Licenses (BYOL) using Application Migration […]

Monitoring Windows desktops on Amazon WorkSpaces using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana

Many Organizations leverage Amazon WorkSpaces as a virtual cloud-based Windows desktop as a solution (DAAS) to replace their existing traditional desktop solution to shift the cost and effort of maintaining laptops and desktops to a cloud pay-as-you-go model. Customers using Amazon WorkSpaces would need the support of managed services to monitor their workspaces environment operations. […]

Change Management for Life Sciences

In this post, we’ll demonstrate how Customers looking to maintain Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), Good Clinical Practices (GCP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) can get started evaluating their environments for the controls found in Title 21 of the Code of Federal regulations (CFR) Part 11, and remediate non-compliant resources via a change control process using native […]

Deploying highly-available SQL Server on Amazon EC2 Dedicated Hosts

Want to bring your eligible SQL Server licenses to use on AWS? If your organization is planning data center evacuation, and looking to extend the life of existing investments in Microsoft SQL Server and Windows Server licenses, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and AWS License Manager can help. Do you also want to setup […]

Best practices for migrating Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon EC2 using CloudEndure

Best practices for migrating Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon EC2 using CloudEndure Migration

June 22, 2021: This blog post describes CloudEndure Migration. AWS Application Migration Service, the next generation of CloudEndure Migration, is now the recommended service for lift-and-shift migrations to AWS. If you have Microsoft SQL Server workloads running in an on-premises environment, you might be looking for ways to migrate to AWS with minimal or no […]

Manage your Amazon EC2 macOS instances with AWS Systems Manager

Are you using macOS for developing, building, testing, and signing applications for Apple devices? To all the thriving community of millions of developers worldwide building applications on Apple platforms, we at AWS bring you the first ever macOS based compute environments in the public cloud. Yes, you read that right! You can now run macOS […]

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Creating ServiceNow incidents for AWS License Manager notifications

AWS License Manager streamlines the process of managing software licenses from software vendors like Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, and others across AWS and in on-premises environments. Administrators can create customized licensing rules that AWS License Manager enforces when Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances are launched. This helps you prevent licensing violations by stopping the […]

Four ways to retrieve any AWS service property using AWS CloudFormation (Part 1 of 3)

Many of you have experience using AWS CloudFormation to automate your application deployments. As you probably know, the service supports around 600 types of resources. When you optimize your templates, you might have discovered that each of those resource types encapsulates native AWS SDK API calls to create or update each resource’s state or configuration. You […]