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Accelerate your Migration with AWS Application Migration Service
HAQM Web Services (AWS) recently announced the sunsetting of CloudEndure Migration and AWS Server Migration Service (AWS SMS), both used primarily for accelerating lift-and-shift (re-host) migrations to AWS. AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) simplifies and accelerates your re-host migrations to AWS. You can quickly migrate your virtual, physical, or cloud-based servers to AWS with minimal […]
Use HAQM Cloud Watch math expressions and composite alarms for detailed monitoring of AWS Elastic Load Balancers
AWS Elastic Load Balancing encompasses the following load balancers in AWS: Application Load Balancers, Network Load Balancers, Gateway Load Balancers, and Classic Load Balancers. The load balancer serves as a single contact point for clients and it distributes incoming traffic across multiple targets such as EC2 instances as well as it is crucial to monitor […]
Build an observability solution using managed AWS services and the OpenTelemetry standard
Open standards, specifically the ones implemented by OpenTelemetry, are becoming the de-facto mechanism of implementing observability for numerous organizations that support this CNCF initiative. This blog post showcases how an organization can easily build a central observability platform with single-pane-of-glass visibility into their various applications that run both in the public cloud as well as […]
Extending and exploring alarm history in HAQM CloudWatch – part 1
Alarm history data can be invaluable in diagnosing trends, impacts and root causes for issues in your application. In this two-part blog series, we will demonstrate how to move beyond the standard 14 day alarm history, and turn your HAQM CloudWatch alarm state changes into logs and metrics that you can graph on your CloudWatch […]
Extending and exploring alarm history in HAQM CloudWatch – part 2
In part 1 of this blog series, we demonstrated how to utilize an HAQM EventBridge rule to create HAQM CloudWatch logs and metrics from a change in state of your CloudWatch alarms. To diagnose trends, impacts, and root causes, you may want to see trends in alarm history or visualize this data alongside other CloudWatch […]
How to validate AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry attribute groups schema and take remediation actions
Many customers define resource tagging strategy to manage their AWS resources to either being able to identify the resource owner or the cost center, or for any other purpose. Therefore, it’s important to have a mechanism to identify those resources that don’t have the essential resource tags. In AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry, attribute groups are […]
Automate AWS Config data visualization with AWS Systems Manager
Earlier this year we published a blog, Visualizing AWS Config data using HAQM Athena and HAQM QuickSight. It outlines the steps for setting up AWS Config with HAQM Athena and HAQM QuickSight. We received great feedback from that post. To further help our customers adopt these tools we are happy to announce the availability of […]
How to monitor hybrid environments with AWS services
As enterprises start migrating to the cloud, one challenge they will face is framing and implementing a holistic monitoring strategy for the hybrid environment. In our experience, there are three main reasons for this. First and foremost, an enterprise generally has multiple monitoring tools in place, but when the enterprises start moving to the cloud, […]
Using ELB Access Logs and AWS Application Cost Profiler to track tenant cost of shared AWS Infrastructure
In our previous post on AWS Application Cost Profiler (ACP), we demonstrated how application owners instrument a serverless application with tenant metadata in a contextual format using AWS X-Ray. This tenant metadata is necessary for ACP to generate a granular cost breakdown of shared AWS resources used by multi-tenant applications. These granular cost insights let […]
Root and Nested Organizational Unit Support for Customizations for AWS Control Tower
Customers often use AWS accounts as a boundary to segregate their workloads, environments, business units, compliance requirements, or any type of logical isolation that suits their business. An AWS account serves as a hard boundary by design – each account is its own logical entity with controls, limits, and guardrails. Large customers typically have many […]