AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Introduction As customers migrate legacy workloads to AWS Cloud, they may need to rehost or replatform applications to Amazon EC2 servers. To benefit from the scalability of cloud, customers need to be able to scale these EC2 servers up or down, on demand and on schedule. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Groups provide the on-demand scaling […]

Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use cloud contact center solution that helps companies of any size deliver superior customer service at a lower cost. Connect has many real-time monitoring capabilities. For requirements that go beyond those supported out of the box, Amazon Connect also provides you with data and APIs you can use to implement your […]

In just a few weeks, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will host its 12th annual re:Invent for both in-person and virtual attendees. Join us in Las Vegas from November 27th through December 1st for a full week of keynotes, leadership sessions, breakout content, lightning talks and technical deep dives. In the exciting line-up of mainframe-related sessions, […]

Introduction Customers that migrate on-premises enterprise applications to AWS often look for guidance on how to migrate GitHub to AWS. Customers find it challenging to scale as they are constrained by on premises GitHub infrastructure. Organisations that run Github on AWS can get up and running quickly. GitHub on AWS enables teams to collaborate efficiently […]

Customers running microservice-based workloads in a serverless environment frequently have issues with troubleshooting incidents as the data they need can be distributed across hundreds or thousands of components. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how you can reduce the mean time to resolution (MTTR, or the average time it takes to repair or mitigate […]

Despite the many benefits of moving to the Cloud, large enterprises frequently struggle to deliver migrations (and the related business transformation) in the planned timeframe. Why?  What are the key factors that ensure a successful migration that becomes an oft-quoted industry benchmark for a Cloud driven transformation; rather than a moribund initiative where a number […]

Many customers are looking to adopt a multi-account strategy within their AWS environment. This allows customers to isolate their workloads into different environments including test, dev, and production in addition to separating workloads based on regulatory requirements. As customers scale their multi-account environments, one strategy to increase agility is to offer business units their own […]

As we all know, using multiple accounts on your AWS environment is one of the recommended best practices when organizing your workloads and your environment. Using multiple accounts brings multiple benefits allowing you to better leverage AWS services. However, AWS accounts are additional resources that you need to manage. In this blog post, you will […]

AWS Resilience Hub provides a central place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your application on AWS. It can help in assessing impact of every application change on resiliency by automatically running the assessment on a daily basis or as part of CI/CD pipeline. With AWS Resilience Hub, you can easily create resiliency […]

AWS provides customers regular updates of service notifications and planned activities via e-mail to the root account owners or the operational, security and billing contacts. AWS also provides granular notifications to customers via AWS Health allowing them to fine-tune their alerts on issues relating directly to them. Alongside Health Dashboard’s monitoring capabilities, customers can also […]