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Tag: Automation

Delivering Business Value with Cloud Platform Teams

Imagine a world where software developers build applications quickly on the cloud, focusing on innovative features, unburdened by complex infrastructure and intricate configurations. Welcome to the era of the cloud platform team. Cloud platform teams build internal tools, automation, and self-service infrastructure to free developers from commodity tasks and enable them to innovate faster. However, […]

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 […]

Self-service Account Provisioning Using AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow

Many customers are looking to adopt a multi-account strategy within their AWS environment. This allows customers to isolate their workloads into different environments including test, dev, and production in addition to separating workloads based on regulatory requirements. As customers scale their multi-account environments, one strategy to increase agility is to offer business units their own […]

Auto-remediate best practice deviations detected by AWS Trusted Advisor

AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS infrastructure and provides best practice recommendations when opportunities exist to reduce cost, optimize your AWS infrastructure, improve system availability and performance, help close security gaps and monitor service quotas. Trusted Advisor recommendations are based on best practices identified by AWS services experts and learnings from serving thousands of customers […]

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 […]

Schedule automated operations for your Terraform managed resources on AWS

Introduction Do you have AWS resources deployed with Terraform where you would like to perform specific operations on schedule while avoiding drift in state? Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that helps you build, change, and version cloud and on-premise resources safely and efficiently. This post describes a pattern that can be used to […]

Downgrade SQL Server Enterprise edition using AWS Systems Manager Document to reduce cost

Downgrade SQL Server Enterprise edition using AWS Systems Manager Document to reduce cost

In this post, we will show how to downgrade SQL Server from Enterprise edition to Standard edition on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) instances to help you reduce cost. If you are not using any of the features of Enterprise edition, you can downgrade to Standard edition. Here is the flowchart that can help you identify […]

Managing CloudWatch Synthetics canaries at scale

Managing CloudWatch Synthetics canaries at scale

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics offers an automated approach to monitoring the performance and availability of your application endpoints, REST APIs, and website content, allowing you to discover issues before your customers do. As your applications and suite of accompanying canaries grows over time, it becomes more challenging and time consuming to manage them at scale. This […]

Automate account customization using Account Factory Customization in AWS Control Tower

Automate account customization using Account Factory Customization in AWS Control Tower

Before customers can build, migrate and operate their workloads at scale, they must build a foundation to enable a multi-account architecture that supports the growing needs of their organization. With this foundation in place, customers can create AWS accounts to enable workload isolation within their organizations. As customers build their AWS account structure to group […]