AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Resources from AWS technology experts and AWS Partners to help accelerate cloud adoption and modernization

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Prescriptive Guidance provides time-tested strategies, guides, and patterns to help accelerate your cloud migration, modernization, and optimization projects. These resources were developed by AWS technology experts and the global community of AWS Partners, based on their years of experience helping customers realize their business objectives on AWS.

strategies

Business perspectives, methodologies, and frameworks for cloud migration and modernization, for CxOs and senior managers

guides

Guidance for planning and implementing strategies, with focus on best practices and tools, for architects, managers, and technical leads

patterns

Steps, architectures, tools, and code for implementing common migration, optimization, and modernization scenarios, for builders and other hands-on users

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    Security

    AWS KMS best practices

    Created by AWS
    Learn best practices for using AWS Key Management Service, including strategies for key management, data protection, access control, monitoring, and cost optimization.

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    Tags: Cloud foundations | Security

    Last update
    March 24, 2025
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    Developer tools

    Automate AWS infrastructure operations

    Created by AWS
    Use Amazon Bedrock to help automate your AWS infrastructure operations such as Amazon EC2 instance management, Amazon S3 lifecycle policies, and Amazon RDS backup automation.

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    Tags: Cloud Financial Management | DevOps | Machine Learning

    Last update
    March 24, 2025
  • Pattern

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    Migration

    Migrate a Couchbase Server database to Amazon EC2

    Created by AWS
    How to rehost Couchbase Server databases on Amazon EC2 in the AWS Cloud for scalability, performance, cost efficiency, and other key benefits.

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    Tags: Databases | Migration

    Last update
    March 24, 2025
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    Migration

    Implement SHA1 hashing in PostgreSQL

    Created by AWS
    Implement SHA1 hashing and BigInt conversion for email addresses in PostgreSQL, replicating functionality from SQL Server and .NET applications.

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    Tags: Databases | Migration | Security | Serverless

    Last update
    March 24, 2025
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    Machine learning

    Creating RAG solutions on AWS for healthcare

    Created by AWS, Accenture, and Cadiem
    Use large language models in Amazon Bedrock to build a Retrieval Augmented Generation application for the healthcare industry.

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    Tags: Machine Learning

    Last update
    March 14, 2025
  • Pattern

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    Developer tools

    Automate account creation using the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

    Created by AWS
    Use the Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS solution to automatically deploy a new account when an authorized user submits a request.

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    Tags: Cloud foundations | DevOps | Infrastructure | Management & Governance

    Last update
    March 14, 2025
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    Databases

    Monitoring Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB databases

    Created by AWS
    Monitoring and alerting tools and best practices for analyzing your Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB databases. This guide covers both DB instance and OS monitoring; key metrics, logs, traces, and events to monitor; and setting up alerts to detect issues.

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    Tags: Databases | Infrastructure

    Last update
    March 11, 2025
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    Management & governance

    Implement AFT by using a bootstrap pipeline

    Created by AWS
    Implement a bootstrap pipeline by using AWS CodeBuild and AWS CodePipeline to easily, quickly, and securely deploy AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT).

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    Tags: Cloud foundations | Infrastructure | Management & Governance

    Last update
    March 10, 2025
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    Developer tools

    Manage Multi-AZ failover for EMR clusters

    Created by AWS
    How to automate Multi-AZ failover processes for Apache Spark-based EMR clusters by using Amazon Application Recovery Controller, to help ensure seamless data processing during infrastructure disruptions.

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    Tags: Analytics | DevOps

    Last update
    March 07, 2025
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