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Tag: Amazon EBS
Use AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks to resolve Elastic Block Store related operational tasks
Customers have been using various forms of automation for years to define a sequence of actions on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). While before, customers were facing operational overhead related to EBS tasks, AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Automations can now be leveraged to meet a wide variety of customer use cases. In this blog post, a […]
How World Kinect Corporation migrated their Oracle E-Business Suite Applications to AWS
Contributions from Paul Wright, Leader in Database and middleware Services at World Kinect Corporation Introduction With the advancement in maturity and breadth of cloud solutions, an increasing number of enterprises are choosing to embark on migrating their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to the cloud. ERP systems sit at the heart of many digital transformation initiatives because […]
How to set up Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor IO metrics of Amazon EBS volumes performance using metric math
To prevent application or database performance hiccups from latency of a disk, it is very critical to monitor disk I/O and usage for performance issues. Disk I/O is the amount of read or write or input/output operations that occur during a period, in other words it measures the data transfer speed between a disk and […]
Best practices for migrating Microsoft SQL Server databases to Amazon EC2 using CloudEndure Migration
June 22, 2021: This blog post describes CloudEndure Migration. AWS Application Migration Service, the next generation of CloudEndure Migration, is now the recommended service for lift-and-shift migrations to AWS. If you have Microsoft SQL Server workloads running in an on-premises environment, you might be looking for ways to migrate to AWS with minimal or no […]