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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    Containers

    Migrate NGINX Ingress Controllers for EKS Auto Mode

    Created by AWS
    Use a blue/green deployment strategy to migrate NGINX Ingress Controller instances and enable Amazon EKS Auto Mode.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Containers | Networking & Remote Access

    Last update
    April 23, 2025
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    Updated
    Analytics

    Defining Amazon S3 bucket and path names for data lake layers

    Created by AWS
    Create a consistent naming standard for Amazon S3 buckets and paths in data lakes hosted on the AWS Cloud.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Analytics | Storage & Backup

    Last update
    April 22, 2025
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    Developer tools

    Working around Terraform data source limitations

    Created by AWS
    Solutions and workarounds for using Terraform on AWS as an IaC tool to automate one-time DevOps tasks.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Business Productivity | DevOps | Infrastructure

    Last update
    April 21, 2025
  • Strategy

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    Developer tools

    Accelerate development lifecycles with generative AI

    Created by AWS
    Review a framework, foundational capabilities, use cases, best practices, and success metrics for accelerating software development lifecycles with generative AI.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Business Productivity | DevOps | Machine Learning

    Last update
    April 18, 2025
  • Strategy

    New
    Developer tools

    Transform ADM operating models with generative AI

    Created by AWS
    Review strategic guidance to transform your organization's application development and maintenance practices through generative AI integration.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Business Productivity | DevOps | Machine Learning

    Last update
    April 18, 2025
  • Pattern

    New
    Containers

    Use mutual TLS in Amazon ECS with ALB

    Created by AWS
    Simplify your application authentication and offload security burdens with mutual TLS on Amazon ECS using Application Load Balancer.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Containers | DevOps | Infrastructure

    Last update
    April 16, 2025
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    Databases

    Automate database tasks with AWS Lambda and Task Scheduler

    Created by AWS
    Schedule and manage database tasks in SQL Server Express edition on Amazon EC2 by using Task Scheduler and AWS Lambda.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Databases | Migration

    Last update
    April 16, 2025
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    Databases

    Archiving MySQL data on AWS

    Created by AWS
    Archive historical data in Amazon S3 with minimal impact to your application.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Databases

    Last update
    April 11, 2025
  • Guide

    New
    Containers

    Streamlining Amazon EKS observability

    Created by AWS
    Best practices, tools, and guidelines for enhancing observability in Amazon EKS environments. These guidelines provide improved visibility, performance, and reliability for your EKS clusters, and help you achieve optimal application management and operation.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Containers | DevOps

    Last update
    April 10, 2025
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