AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: Amazon RDS
Reduce software licensing costs with an AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment
Whether you’re building a business case or planning your cloud migration, understanding your actual compute needs and software licensing entitlements is crucial early in your migration journey. These insights help you formulate a robust and well-informed cloud migration plan. They also help you achieve significant savings on your Windows, VMware, and Oracle workloads compared to […]
How TMAP Migrated their large Oracle Database to Amazon Aurora MySQL using AWS DMS
Launched in 2002, TMAP Mobility is South Korea’s leading mobility platform with 20 million registered users and 14 million monthly active users. TMAP provides navigation services based on a wide range of real-time traffic information and data. TMAP is growing vertical offerings to its users that add value to navigation services, such as user profiles, […]
Enhance observability for Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana
In this blog post, you will learn how to improve observability on your Amazon RDS Custom for SQL Server database. You will configure metric exporters and send those metrics to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, to be visualized in Amazon Managed Grafana. By utilizing both Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, and Amazon Managed Grafana, you […]
MagellanRx Modernizes Claims Adjudication Application from AIX Oracle platform to Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Oracle RDS
Customers desiring to modernize enterprise workloads from on-premises IBM AIX System p environments into AWS face portability concerns. AIX workloads do not lend themselves to a lift and shift type of migration pattern and require re-platforming or refactoring. This is due to operating systems and processor architectures in Power AIX systems and x86 Linux systems […]
Using AWS CloudTrail to propagate tags across related AWS resources – Part 1
AWS allows customers to assign metadata to their AWS resources in the form of tags. Each tag consists of a customer-defined key and an optional value. Tags can make it easier to manage, search for, and filter resources by purpose, owner, environment, or other criteria. AWS tags can be used for many purposes like organizing […]
Use AWS License Manager API operations to manage your Oracle licenses based on Oracle cloud policy
Learn with Shree on how to use AWS License Manager API operations to manage your Oracle licenses (for databases running on Amazon RDS for Oracle, Amazon EC2 and on-premises servers) based on Oracle cloud policy. Additionally, learn how to use the built-in integration of License Manager API operations with AWS CloudTrail to prepare for vendor audit.
Four ways to retrieve any AWS service property using AWS CloudFormation (Part 3 of 3)
This post is the last in a series on how to build customizations using AWS CloudFormation. In part 1, we introduced you to cfn-response and crhelper and discussed the scenarios they are best suited for. In part 2, we addressed a coverage gap in our public roadmap and showed you how to build an AWS […]
Use AWS License Manager API operations to manage your software licenses in the cloud
Learn with Shree on how to use AWS License Manager public API operations to manage your software licenses in the cloud.
Tracking your Oracle licenses using AWS License Manager
Introduction Many of our customers are running Oracle databases in AWS. They have asked for help with managing their Oracle licenses. In response, AWS has released some new features to AWS License Manager to help customers manage their Oracle licenses running in AWS. AWS License Manager is a service that helps customers manage their software […]
Enabling self-service provisioning of AWS resources with AWS Control Tower
Customers provision new accounts in AWS Control Tower whenever they are on-boarding new business units or setting up application workloads. In some cases, organizations also want their cloud users, developers, and data scientists to deploy self-service standardized and secure patterns and architectures with the new account. Here are a few examples: A developer or cloud […]