AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Resources from AWS technology experts and AWS Partners to help accelerate cloud adoption and modernization

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Prescriptive Guidance provides time-tested strategies, guides, and patterns to help accelerate your cloud migration, modernization, and optimization projects. These resources were developed by AWS technology experts and the global community of AWS Partners, based on their years of experience helping customers realize their business objectives on AWS.

strategies

Business perspectives, methodologies, and frameworks for cloud migration and modernization, for CxOs and senior managers

guides

Guidance for planning and implementing strategies, with focus on best practices and tools, for architects, managers, and technical leads

patterns

Steps, architectures, tools, and code for implementing common migration, optimization, and modernization scenarios, for builders and other hands-on users

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    Databases

    Archiving MySQL data on AWS

    Created by AWS
    Archive historical data in Amazon S3 with minimal impact to your application.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Databases

    Last update
    April 11, 2025
  • Guide

    New
    Containers

    Streamlining Amazon EKS observability

    Created by AWS
    Best practices, tools, and guidelines for enhancing observability in Amazon EKS environments. These guidelines provide improved visibility, performance, and reliability for your EKS clusters, and help you achieve optimal application management and operation.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Containers | DevOps

    Last update
    April 10, 2025
  • Guide

    New
    Developer tools

    Using chaos engineering on AWS

    Created by AWS
    Best practices for conducting chaos experiments and approaches for implementing chaos engineering at scale in your organization.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: DevOps | Modernization | Websites & Web Apps

    Last update
    April 04, 2025
  • Pattern

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    Modernization

    Modernize the CardDemo mainframe application using Amazon Q

    Created by AWS
    Learn how to analyze, document, decompose, and refactor a sample mainframe application by using AI-powered automation.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Machine Learning | Mainframes | Modernization

    Last update
    April 03, 2025
  • Guide

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    Management & governance

    Designing an AWS Control Tower landing zone

    Created by AWS
    Best practices and templates for designing a landing zone in AWS Control Tower, including account strategy, security, networking, storage, and monitoring and auditing.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Infrastructure | Management & Governance

    Last update
    April 02, 2025
  • Pattern

    New
    Containers

    Set up auto scaling using Amazon EKS Pod Identity and KEDA

    Created by AWS
    Use Amazon EKS Pod Identity and KEDA ScaledObject and TriggerAuthentication features to auto scale applications based on unread messages in an Amazon SQS queue.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Cloud Financial Management | Containers | DevOps

    Last update
    March 31, 2025
  • Guide

    New
    Migration

    Migrating legacy ASP.NET Web Forms applications to AWS

    Created by AWS
    Options for hosting, deploying, and scaling ASP.NET Web Forms applications, which can be large monoliths that contain legacy code, on AWS.

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    Tags: Migration | Modernization | Websites & Web Apps

    Last update
    March 31, 2025
  • Strategy

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    Migration

    Homogeneous migration of Oracle databases to AWS

    Created by AWS
    Strategies and best practices for analyzing your on-premises Oracle databases, planning a homogeneous migration to AWS, and choosing the right migration tools and services.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Databases | Migration

    Last update
    March 28, 2025
  • Guide

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    Security

    AWS KMS best practices

    Created by AWS
    Learn best practices for using AWS Key Management Service, including strategies for key management, data protection, access control, monitoring, and cost optimization.

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    Tags: Cloud foundations | Security

    Last update
    March 24, 2025
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