AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog

AWS Mainframe Modernization now available in Terraform

Leveraging Infrastructure as Code for AWS Mainframe Modernization with Terraform AWS Mainframe Modernization service is a cloud-native platform to modernize, migrate, execute, and operate mainframe applications. In addition to analysis and transformation tools, it provides a fully-managed and resilient runtime environment making it easierto run and operate modernized applications. Starting today, you can define AWS Mainframe […]

Streamline Compliance Management with AWS Config custom rules and conformance packs

Streamline compliance management with AWS Config custom rules and conformance packs

In this blog post, we will show you how to manage your compliance controls with AWS Config custom rules (custom rules) written in AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard) domain-specific language (DSL) with use of conformance packs. AWS CloudFormation Guard, the language used to write custom policy rules is an open-source domain-specific language (DSL) and command line […]

Improve Amazon Bedrock Observability with Amazon CloudWatch AppSignals

With the pace of innovation with Generative AI applications, there is increasing demand for more granular observability into applications using Large Language Models (LLMs). Specifically, customers want visibility into: Prompt metrics like token usage, costs, and model IDs for individual transactions and operations, apart from service-level aggregations. Output quality factors including potential toxicity, harm, truncation […]

Elevating Your AWS Observability: Unlocking the Power of Amazon CloudWatch Alarms

Organizations commonly leverage AWS services to enhance the observability and operational excellence of their workloads. However, often it is unclear the actions that teams should take when observability metrics are delivered to them, it can be difficult to understand which metrics need action to remediate and which ones are simply noise. For example, if an […]

Automate your Multicloud operations with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Lambda

A multicloud strategy presents various challenges, including observing and managing applications and infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms. Maintaining consistent tooling for visualizing operational data and automating actions helps organizations address this challenge. Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Systems Manager are two services that provide unified monitoring, observability, and automation capabilities for workloads deployed on AWS, on-premises, […]

Service Catalog engine

Developing an AWS Service Catalog self-managed engine for governance

AWS Service Catalog lets you centrally manage your cloud resources to achieve governance at scale of your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates. AWS Service Catalog supports AWS CloudFormation natively and allows customers to use other IaC such as Terraform Community and Terraform Cloud via Service Catalog reference engine. We often hear customers asking how to […]

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How to perform Failover and Failback using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) between VMware and AWS environments

Enterprises face a variety of threats such as natural disasters, cyber-attacks and technology failures that could severely disrupt operations. A comprehensive disaster recovery plan is crucial to quickly respond and recover from these events. In this blog post, we’ll show how to plan and implement a comprehensive disaster recovery solution between your VMware on-premises environment […]

Protect your AWS resources from unauthorized access using AWS Organizations integrations

In today’s digital landscape, customers have complex and distributed workloads running on AWS, involving a large number of AWS resources across multiple services. Tackling security risks across numerous resources can seem daunting, but with the right approach following best practices, can be addressed in a timely manner. AWS offers tools and services designed to help […]

Minimizing ambiguity in custom scope migrations

Introduction Cloud migration is a transformative journey that unlocks new opportunities for businesses. However, this transition can be overwhelming, and it necessitates a phased approach that utilizes different migration strategies. Initially, applications that require minimal changes are migrated using lift and shift strategy. More complex monolithic applications, that require re-architecting or refactoring to leverage cloud-native capabilities, are […]

Introducing Parameter Store cross-account sharing

Earlier this year, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store launched a feature that now allows you to share advanced parameters with other AWS accounts, enabling you to centrally manage your configuration data in a multi-account environment. Today, many customers have workloads in multiple AWS accounts that require shared, synchronized configuration data. Now, you can maintain a […]