Category: AWS Systems Manager

Many customers migrating their workloads to AWS using AWS Application Migration Service want to use different AWS accounts to support their company’s governance and security needs. Customers may also choose to use Infrastructure As Code (IaC) templates using AWS CloudFormation or Terraform with Application Migration Service to deploy source servers to different AWS Accounts. To […]

An effective incident management is foremost for maintaining system reliability and ensuring quick responses to unexpected incidents. Incident Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, helps to mitigate and recover from these incidents by enabling automated responses. In a previous blog with Incident Manager, we talked about setting up escalation mechanisms, creating response plans and […]

Today, we are announcing new capabilities that enable customers to off-board their stacks, layers, and instances from AWS OpsWorks Stacks before it reaches End of Life on May 26, 2024. Previously, we released this blog post that provides customers a way to migrate workloads in a blue/green manner from OpsWorks Stacks to a new architecture […]

Introduction This blog post is for customers who want to implement automated tagging controls and strategy for cost allocation. Customers want to centralize and maintain consistency for tags across AWS Organizations so they are available outside their AWS environment (e.g. in build scripts, etc.) or enforce centralized conditional tagging on existing and new AWS resources […]

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 […]

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. […]

Intro Migration involves a crucial step of validating that your applications perform as expected in the cloud, achieved through multiple checks or scripts run on migrated servers. Manual performance of these tasks is complex, time-consuming, and prone to errors, particularly when migrating servers or applications at scale. AWS Application Migration Services (AWS MGN) simplifies this […]

This blog post will walk you through an example of creating a Correction of Errors (COE) document. At Amazon, operational excellence is in our DNA. One best practice that we have learned at Amazon is to have a standard mechanism for post-incident analysis. The COE process facilitates learning from an event to avoid reoccurrences in […]

Security and compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. The shared responsibility model outlines responsibilities for Security of the Cloud versus Security in the Cloud. Customers are responsible for Security in the Cloud, which includes patching Amazon EC2 instances. For the customers running workloads on EC2 instances, during security audits, they may be […]

As a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, you can benefit from a SaaS operating model in a number of ways. One of the most impactful benefits you can realize is improvements to your operational efficiency, and one of the fundamental techniques you can leverage is to maintain a single software version for all your […]