AWS Prescriptive Guidance

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

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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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    Databases

    Automate blue/green deployments of Aurora global databases

    Created by AWS
    How to automate blue/green deployments for Amazon Aurora global database clusters by using IaC principles, GTID-based replication, and the AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Route 53 services.

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    Tags: Analytics | Databases | DevOps | Modernization

    Last update
    January 27, 2025
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    Databases

    Tuning PostgreSQL parameters in Amazon RDS and Aurora

    Created by AWS
    How to configure memory, autovacuum, logging, and logical replication parameters to optimize PostgreSQL databases in Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora.

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    Tags: Databases | Developer Tools | Migration

    Last update
    January 23, 2025
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    Management & governance

    AWS multi-Region fundamentals

    Created by AWS
    Use cases, concepts, and recommendations for determining whether to adopt an AWS multi-Region strategy for your workload.

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    Tags: Cloud foundations | Infrastructure | Management & Governance

    Last update
    December 27, 2024
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    Migration

    Migrating large MySQL or MariaDB databases to AWS

    Created by AWS
    Review the best practices and available approaches for migrating large, multi-terabyte MySQL or MariaDB databases from an on-premises server to the AWS Cloud.

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    Tags: Databases | Migration

    Last update
    November 21, 2024
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    Machine learning

    Retrieval Augmented Generation options on AWS

    Created by AWS
    Learn about the generative AI options for creating a RAG-based application on AWS that answers questions by referencing your custom documents.

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    Tags: Machine Learning

    Last update
    October 28, 2024
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    Machine learning

    Deploy a RAG use case on AWS

    Created by AWS
    Use Terraform to implement a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) use case that uses large language models (LLMs) on Amazon Bedrock.

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    Tags: Infrastructure | Machine Learning | Serverless | Websites & Web Apps

    Last update
    September 18, 2024
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    Databases

    Integrate Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible with databases and AWS services

    Created by AWS
    Use foreign data wrappers and extensions to connect with different database engines and integrate PostgreSQL databases with AWS services.

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    Tags: Databases | Migration | Modernization

    Last update
    August 22, 2024
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    Databases

    Blueprint for successful migrations from Oracle Exadata to AWS

    Created by AWS
    Best practices and tips on how to plan, perform, and maintain a successful migration from Oracle Exadata to the AWS Cloud.

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    Tags: Databases | Migration | Modernization

    Last update
    July 12, 2024
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    Security

    Detect Amazon RDS instances with expiring CA certificates

    Created by AWS
    For an AWS account or organization, use an AWS Config rule to detect Amazon RDS or Aurora instances that require a certificate authority (CA) update.

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    Tags: Infrastructure | Security

    Last update
    June 25, 2024
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