AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Stalled cloud migrations can undermine cloud adoption’s business value. It is therefore important to watch out for early warning signs and take timely corrective action. This blog post looks at five big pitfalls every cloud migration leader should be aware of. The good news is you can spot these issues early and mitigate them to […]

Overview Maintaining and improving end user experience is key and as your business grows, the number of endpoints you need to observe can grow quickly. It can become more challenging and time consuming to build multiple canaries to observe them. This solution is designed to show how you can use a consistent and automated approach […]

Customers may have different processes for image building across virtual machines, containers, or both. This variation in processes introduces operational overhead in managing images, including the initial configuration and the ongoing updates. From the AWS Well-Architected Operational Excellence Pillar, section “Document and share lessons learned”, these images should be standardized, configured with the latest patches, […]

Introduction In this blog post, we will share how you can use AWS-native observability tools to measure the current state of your modern serverless applications and how to get started with the minimal effort. We will review tools like Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray and explore how these services can help you instrument your application […]

This blog post was written with contributions from Gaurav Parashar who is prior AWS Customers often have challenges accelerating the modernization of their applications. The complexity of refactoring a monolith application often provides hurdles in depth of expertise, time and effort. In this blog, we will explore two mechanisms that can help you accelerate your […]

Introduction Part one of this series described the methodology used to calculate the TCO for containerization and we covered the first scenario of estimating TCO with server inventory information. In the second part we focus on second scenario where we will estimate TCO with application level information. Scenario 2: Estimating TCO with only application level […]

Businesses today employ IoT devices to monitor the health of their equipment, ranging from machines on a factory floor to inventory tracking sensor locations. Insights from these IoT device fleets make them part of critical business infrastructure, however deriving meaningful insights from these IoT device fleets at scale is a common challenge customers face. IT […]

Have you encountered situations where your Kubernetes API calls are constantly throttled by the control plane? Did you see the 429 HTTP response code “Too many requests” all over the place and have no clue on what’s wrong with your cluster? In this blog post, we will talk about monitoring some of the key metrics […]

AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS infrastructure and provides best practice recommendations when opportunities exist to reduce cost, optimize your AWS infrastructure, improve system availability and performance, help close security gaps and monitor service quotas. Trusted Advisor recommendations are based on best practices identified by AWS services experts and learnings from serving thousands of customers […]

Lift and Shift Oracle Database with the least downtime using AWS Application Migration Service Introduction Customers migrating Oracle databases from their data centers to AWS run enterprise workloads that are vital for their business. They look for tools and mechanisms to enable them to migrate without disruption to current database operations and with minimum or […]