AWS Cloud Operations Blog
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Automate creating and onboarding applications with AWS CloudFormation tags and myApplications
Customers operate hundreds of applications and often those applications consist of hundreds to thousands of resources. This can get complex and overwhelming having to monitor and manage individual resources and identifying what resources are tied to an application while making sure their applications are available, secure, cost-optimized, and performing optimally. The underlying concept of applications […]
Leveraging existing tagging strategies for Application Operations
Customers often spend time finding and managing individual resources within their applications. They need to find various applications, manage and perform application tasks, and monitor resources during different stages of the application lifecycle. Customers usually have hundreds to thousands of resources within even a single AWS account. This requires navigating across multiple AWS services pages […]
How Amazon CloudWatch Logs Data Protection can help detect and protect sensitive log data
Customer applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) often require handling sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or protected health information (PHI). As a result, sensitive log data can be intentionally or unintentionally logged as part of an application’s observability data. While comprehensive logging is important for application troubleshooting, monitoring and forensics, any […]
How Merck Automated AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Initialization and Monitoring
Blog is guest authored by Nasia Ullas of MSD. Enhancing the resilience and productivity of manufacturing processes is essential for pharmaceutical companies to meet business continuity objectives and innovate continuously. Merck & Co., Inc., also known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, a global bio-pharmaceutical company, mitigated resilience challenges by adopting AWS […]
Empowering Manufacturing Innovation: How AI & GenAI Centers of Excellence can drive Modernization
Introduction Technologies such as machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI), and Generative AI (GenAI) unlock a new era of efficient and sustainable manufacturing while empowering the workforce. Areas where AI can be applied in manufacturing include predictive maintenance, defect detection, supply chain visibility, demand forecasting, product design, and many more. Benefits include improving uptime and […]
How BMW Group uses automation to achieve end-to-end compliance at scale on AWS
This post is co-written with Dr. Jens Kohl, Daniel Engelhardt, and Sascha Kallin from BMW Group. The BMW Group – headquartered in Munich, Germany – is a vehicle manufacturer with 149,000 employees worldwide and manufactures in over 30 production and assembly facilities across 15 countries. Today, the BMW Group (BMW) is the world’s leading manufacturer […]
Top considerations for Flash sale events
Introduction Flash sale events happen when online stores offer deep discounts, promotions on their products or sell unique inventory for a short period, and product launches. The inventory behind these sales is usually low, high demand and the promotions are valid for only the short sale period. Flash sales often see a steep increase in […]
How World Kinect Corporation migrated their Oracle E-Business Suite Applications to AWS
Contributions from Paul Wright, Leader in Database and middleware Services at World Kinect Corporation Introduction With the advancement in maturity and breadth of cloud solutions, an increasing number of enterprises are choosing to embark on migrating their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems to the cloud. ERP systems sit at the heart of many digital transformation initiatives because […]
Change Management for Life Sciences
In this post, we’ll demonstrate how Customers looking to maintain Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), Good Clinical Practices (GCP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) can get started evaluating their environments for the controls found in Title 21 of the Code of Federal regulations (CFR) Part 11, and remediate non-compliant resources via a change control process using native […]
Collect, aggregate, and analyze Rancher Kubernetes Cluster logs with Amazon CloudWatch
Rancher is a popular open-source container management tool utilized by many organizations that provides an intuitive user interface for managing and deploying the Kubernetes clusters on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) or Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). When Rancher deploys Kubernetes onto nodes in Amazon EC2, it uses Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE), which is Rancher’s […]