The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a collection of best practices that helps customers build and operate secure, high-performing, resilient, and cost-effective workloads on the AWS Cloud. With the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool), you can review the state of your applications and workloads against architectural best practices, identify opportunities for improvement, and track progress over time. Tracking the progress of remediation is crucial because it allows you to continuously improve the architecture of your applications and workloads, ensuring they remain aligned with best pract ..read more

Introduction With the rising popularity of applications hosted on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), a key challenge is handling increases in traffic and load efficiently. Traditionally, you would have to manually scale out your applications by adding more instances – an approach that’s time-consuming, inefficient, and prone to over or under provisioning. A better solution is to leverage autoscaling to automatically scale application instances based on real-time demand signals. Kubernetes Event-driven Autoscaling (KEDA) is an autoscaling tool for Kubernetes. KEDA allows scaling wo ..read more

An effective incident management is foremost for maintaining system reliability and ensuring quick responses to unexpected incidents. Incident Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, helps to mitigate and recover from these incidents by enabling automated responses. In a previous blog with Incident Manager, we talked about setting up escalation mechanisms, creating response plans and automating the remediations with the help of AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks. To learn more, see Creating contacts, escalation plans, and response plans in AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager. As pa ..read more

Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) need to operate with high availability and mitigate security risks while keeping costs low. An AWS multi-account environment with workload isolation, robust access control, cost visualization, and integrated security mechanisms can help SMBs build a platform to support growth. SMBs want to deploy a multi-account environment on AWS quickly and securely to maximize the benefits of cloud. Last year we published the Multi-account strategy for small and medium businesses blog post that delved into why SMBs should build a multi-account cloud environment, and the AW ..read more

Today, we are announcing new capabilities that enable customers to off-board their stacks, layers, and instances from AWS OpsWorks Stacks before it reaches End of Life on May 26, 2024. Previously, we released this blog post that provides customers a way to migrate workloads in a blue/green manner from OpsWorks Stacks to a new architecture that leverages AWS CloudFormation, AWS Systems Manager, and Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups. While this is still a recommended approach, we have received feedback from some of our customer base that they would like to retain their existing OpsWorks instances a ..read more

Monitoring containerized applications requires precision and efficiency. As your applications scale, collecting and summarizing application and infrastructure metrics from your applications can be challenging. One way to handle this challenge is using Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights which is a single-click native monitoring tool provided by AWS. Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights helps customers collect, aggregate, and summarize metrics and logs from applications running on an Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service cluster (Amazon EKS). On November 6, 2023, AWS announced an enhance ..read more

Whether you’re building a business case or planning your cloud migration, understanding your actual compute needs and software licensing entitlements is crucial early in your migration journey. These insights help you formulate a robust and well-informed cloud migration plan. They also help you achieve significant savings on your Windows, VMware, and Oracle workloads compared to a direct lift-and-shift migration. The AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (AWS OLA) assesses your current on-premises and existing cloud environments. It analyzes resource utilization, third-party licensing, and ..read more

This post was co-authored with Alex Kirpichny and Evgenia Chernyak (from Ispirer Systems) Introduction Many monolith applications have business logic in the database layer in the form of stored procedures and functions. Businesses have built and maintained their applications using PL/SQL, a reliable and robust programming language. As the technology landscape advances, harnessing the capabilities of microservices opens up new opportunities for adaptability, scalability, and creative advancement. Migrating to Java allows businesses to leverage the robust Java ecosystem and adopt modern developm ..read more

The ability of businesses to innovate is constantly reshaped by disruptive events and technological advancements. Recent global events, such as the pandemic and the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence (AI), have compelled companies across various industries to reevaluate and make crucial strategic pivots. One such move has been the embrace of cloud computing. It’s a transformative shift that offers enterprises many tangible benefits, including enhanced operational efficiency, streamlined processes, and heightened productivity. However, many organizations remain locked into their legacy ..read more

AWS Config enables businesses to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of their AWS resources by leveraging AWS Config rules that represent your ideal configuration settings.  For example a Security Group that allows ingress on port 22 should be marked as noncompliant. AWS Config provides predefined rules called managed rules to help you quickly get started in evaluating your resources and AWS Config can be further leveraged to automate compliance at scale by using custom rules. You can create Config custom rules that use AWS Lambda functions written in Node.js or in Python. &nbs ..read more