AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Introduction Modern businesses rely on data from diverse sources across multiple AWS accounts and regions to gain insights and make critical business decisions. By establishing secure private connections to these data sources metrics, logs, and traces can be visualized from a single pane of glass to enable an end-to-end observability solution. Some customers may have […]

Using AWS Control Tower in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions The recent announcement of AWS Control Tower achieves FedRAMP High authorization in AWS GovCloud (US) Regions reminds us that it is a good time to review how to implement a well-architected multi-account strategy. This helps customers quickly build a baseline multi-account environment while having access […]

Organizations operating mission-critical workloads on AWS, need the ability to analyze and respond to AWS service events in a timely manner to maintain operational excellence. AWS Health sends AWS Health events on behalf of other AWS services with three main categories: notifications on account administration and security, operational issues that affect AWS services, and scheduled […]

This post was co-written with Stephen Cihak, Senior Director , Abhiram Madadi, Principal Engineer and Gopi Akula, Senior Manager at Choice Hotels Who is Choice Hotels? Choice Hotels International is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. A challenger in the upscale segment and a leader in midscale and extended stay, Choice has […]

As a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, you can benefit from a SaaS operating model in a number of ways. One of the most impactful benefits you can realize is improvements to your operational efficiency, and one of the fundamental techniques you can leverage is to maintain a single software version for all your […]

Many customers have successfully migrated on-premises or cloud-based applications to AWS using the AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN). Customers commonly migrate their applications to a number of different AWS Accounts that are part of an AWS Organization, in line with the best practices of establishing a multi-account AWS environment. When using AWS MGN, the […]

Launched in 2002, TMAP Mobility is South Korea’s leading mobility platform with 20 million registered users and 14 million monthly active users. TMAP provides navigation services based on a wide range of real-time traffic information and data. TMAP is growing vertical offerings to its users that add value to navigation services, such as user profiles, […]

Introduction Lambda@Edge is a powerful feature of HAQM CloudFront that allows you to execute serverless code closer to your application users, resulting in improved performance and reduced latency. By distributing Lambda@Edge functions to edge locations worldwide, AWS ensures that the code executes closer to end users, providing faster response times. Moreover, the serverless nature of […]

Many HAQM Web Services (AWS) customers initiate large-scale cloud migrations to achieve specific business outcomes. The reasons for migration include consolidating or vacating data centres, adopting a cloud-first strategy, increasing agility and staff productivity, and reducing the total cost of ownership for IT. Using repeatable patterns for migrating workloads are a great way to jumpstart […]

Introduction Gaining insights and managing large HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) fleet that is spread across multiple accounts and regions can be a challenging task. It’s crucial to have a quick and efficient method to identify which instances are managed by AWS Systems Manager (SSM) and gather detailed information about the instances that are […]