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Category: Technical How-to

Deploy Oracle Database step by step on Amazon EVS with FSx for ONTAP

Deploy Oracle Database step by step on Amazon EVS with FSx for ONTAP

This post provides step-by-step procedures to deploy Oracle Database on Amazon Elastic VMware Service (Amazon EVS) with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as NFS datastore storage. You provision storage volumes, mount NFS datastores, install Oracle, and configure SnapMirror replication for cross-region disaster recovery.

Deploy open source Regional availability tools in your VPC

Deploy open source Regional availability tools in your VPC

Deploy AWS Regional availability data as infrastructure you own. Capability Insights for AWS runs a self-hosted dashboard in your VPC that auto-refreshes daily, and Workload Analysis narrows the catalog to the services your account actually runs, so your Regional expansion gap analysis focuses only on what you deploy.

Running multi-day AZ evacuation drills with ARC Zonal Shift

Running multi-day AZ evacuation drills with ARC Zonal Shift

Prove your multi-AZ architecture can sustain a real impairment. This post shows how to run a multi-day (48-72 hour) Availability Zone evacuation drill with ARC Zonal Shift across Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, with step-by-step CLI commands, prerequisites, observability metrics, and restore procedures.

Build adaptive AI interfaces with the AG-UI protocol, agent swarms, and Nova Act on AWS

Build adaptive AI interfaces with the AG-UI protocol, agent swarms, and Nova Act on AWS

Learn how to build AI interfaces that automatically adapt to your agents’ variable outputs, using the AG-UI protocol for dynamic UI generation, the Strands Agents SDK swarm pattern for explainable multi-agent collaboration, and Amazon Nova Act to integrate legacy systems that lack APIs.

Building resilient real-time streaming workers with Amazon DynamoDB leases

Building resilient real-time streaming workers with Amazon DynamoDB leases

Real-time streaming workers that hold hundreds of persistent WebSocket connections lose data when a worker fails. Learn how to build a WebSocket fleet management system on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate that uses Amazon DynamoDB conditional writes as a distributed lease to track ownership, fail over automatically, and deploy with low downtime.

Testing Application Resilience with Amazon SQS and AWS Fault Injection Service

Testing application resilience with Amazon SQS and AWS Fault Injection Service

Learn how to use AWS Fault Injection Service and AWS Systems Manager Automation to run progressive chaos experiments against Amazon SQS queues. Validate that your retry logic, circuit breakers, and dead-letter queues actually work under failure before a real outage hits production.

Validating multi-Region DR for Terraform Enterprise with AWS FIS

Validating multi-Region DR for Terraform Enterprise with AWS FIS

Learn how AWS, HashiCorp, and Athenahealth designed and chaos-tested a multi-Region disaster recovery strategy for Terraform Enterprise on AWS. This post walks through three-phase AWS Fault Injection Service experiments across Amazon EC2, Aurora, and Amazon S3, the 12-14 minute recovery times achieved, and the state file dependency pitfall to avoid.