Category: AWS Systems Manager

Intro Migration involves a crucial step of validating that your applications perform as expected in the cloud, achieved through multiple checks or scripts run on migrated servers. Manual performance of these tasks is complex, time-consuming, and prone to errors, particularly when migrating servers or applications at scale. AWS Application Migration Services (AWS MGN) simplifies this […]

This blog post will walk you through an example of creating a Correction of Errors (COE) document. At Amazon, operational excellence is in our DNA. One best practice that we have learned at Amazon is to have a standard mechanism for post-incident analysis. The COE process facilitates learning from an event to avoid reoccurrences in […]

Security and compliance is a shared responsibility between AWS and the customer. The shared responsibility model outlines responsibilities for Security of the Cloud versus Security in the Cloud. Customers are responsible for Security in the Cloud, which includes patching Amazon EC2 instances. For the customers running workloads on EC2 instances, during security audits, they may be […]

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 […]

Introduction Gaining insights and managing large Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon 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 […]

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) emits several metrics for your EC2 instance to Amazon CloudWatch. However, memory metrics isn’t one of the default metrics provided by Amazon EC2. Several memory heavy applications like Big Data Analytics, In-memory Databases, Real-time Streaming require you to monitor memory utilization on the instances for operational visibility. These applications […]

In the first post of this two-part series, we highlighted how Life Sciences customers can implement a controlled change management process using AWS Systems Manager Change Manager and AWS Config. The solution in our first post, highlighted how a you can follow your Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) by implementing approval steps in order to make […]

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 […]

In this post, we will show how to downgrade SQL Server from Enterprise edition to Standard edition on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(EC2) instances to help you reduce cost. If you are not using any of the features of Enterprise edition, you can downgrade to Standard edition. Here is the flowchart that can help you identify […]

Since AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) has been positioned as the recommended service for (rehost) migrations to AWS, we have seen an astounding speed of new feature releases, multiple enhancements, and continuous innovation aimed to address customer needs. AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is a highly automated move and improve (rehost) solution that […]