AWS Cloud Operations Blog

HAQM CloudWatch Internet Monitor now provides internet performance and availability measurements for user traffic that accesses specific Network Load Balancers. HAQM CloudWatch Internet Monitor (Internet Monitor) now provides the ability to get internet performance and availability measurements for user traffic to specific Network Load Balancers (NLBs). This blog post describes how this new capability can […]

A hybrid cloud strategy creates management and governance challenges for our customers. These challenges include maintaining consistent cloud security and compliance policies across hybrid VMC and cloud environments, providing a single pane of glass for visualizing and acting on operational data, and providing deployment automation and control of cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud environments. VMware […]

In this blog post, we present best practices and resources to help you build, validate, and improve an AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens. The AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens is a feature of the AWS Well-Architected Tool that lets you bring your own content and best practices complementing the existing Well-Architected Framework that allow you to assess […]

In this blog post, we will present best practices and resources that help you build, validate, and improve your own AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens, and roll it out across your whole organization. The AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens is a feature of the AWS Well-Architected Tool that lets you bring your own content and best practices to complement […]

As customers accelerate their migrations to the cloud and transform their businesses, some find themselves in situations where they have to manage IT operations in a hybrid or multicloud environment. These customers are faced with additional complexity when it comes to operating their applications and infrastructure. They often must use solutions from multiple providers to […]

“Lifting and shifting” your on-premises workloads to the cloud is a great option to move to the cloud quickly. Organizations that take this approach are in a good position to take advantage of the benefits of modernization in the cloud. While the initial move to the cloud may provide cost savings and improved scalability, modernizing […]

Customers desiring to modernize enterprise workloads from on-premises IBM AIX System p environments into AWS face portability concerns. AIX workloads do not lend themselves to a lift and shift type of migration pattern and require re-platforming or refactoring. This is due to operating systems and processor architectures in Power AIX systems and x86 Linux systems […]

Today we are happy to announce the all-new AWS CDK Observability Accelerator – a set of opinionated modules to help you set up observability for your AWS environments with AWS Native services and AWS-managed observability services such as HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus, HAQM Managed Grafana, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and HAQM CloudWatch. AWS […]

Introduction Do you have AWS resources deployed with Terraform where you would like to perform specific operations on schedule while avoiding drift in state? Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that helps you build, change, and version cloud and on-premise resources safely and efficiently. This post describes a pattern that can be used to […]

Customers often need to launch workloads in new accounts and regions. You could be developing an application in a development account, and looking to launch it in a production account, following AWS multi-account best practices on separating production and non-production workloads. You could also be launching a second instance of your payment processing application in […]