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.

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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

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

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    Implement SHA1 hashing in PostgreSQL

    Created by AWS
    Implement SHA1 hashing and BigInt conversion for email addresses in PostgreSQL, replicating functionality from SQL Server and .NET applications.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Databases | Migration | Security | Serverless

    Last update
    March 24, 2025

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    Developer tools
    Developer tools

    Manage Multi-AZ failover for EMR clusters

    Created by AWS
    How to automate Multi-AZ failover processes for Apache Spark-based EMR clusters by using Amazon Application Recovery Controller, to help ensure seamless data processing during infrastructure disruptions.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Analytics | DevOps

    Last update
    March 07, 2025

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    Machine learning
    Machine learning

    Choosing an AWS vector database for RAG use cases

    Created by AWS
    Choose a vector database that helps to optimize the performance and efficiency of your RAG solution.

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    Tags: Analytics | Machine Learning | Websites & Web Apps

    Last update
    March 06, 2025

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    Databases
    Databases

    Automate blue/green deployments of Aurora global databases

    Created by AWS
    How to automate blue/green deployments for Amazon Aurora global database clusters by using IaC principles, GTID-based replication, and the AWS CloudFormation, AWS Lambda, and Amazon Route 53 services.

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    Tags: Analytics | Databases | DevOps | Modernization

    Last update
    January 27, 2025

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    Databases
    Databases

    Tuning PostgreSQL parameters in Amazon RDS and Aurora

    Created by AWS
    How to configure memory, autovacuum, logging, and logical replication parameters to optimize PostgreSQL databases in Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora.

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    Tags: Databases | Developer Tools | Migration

    Last update
    January 23, 2025

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    Management & governance
    Management & governance

    AWS multi-Region fundamentals

    Created by AWS
    Use cases, concepts, and recommendations for determining whether to adopt an AWS multi-Region strategy for your workload.

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    Tags: Cloud foundations | Infrastructure | Management & Governance

    Last update
    December 27, 2024

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    Migration
    Migration

    Migrating large MySQL or MariaDB databases to AWS

    Created by AWS
    Review the best practices and available approaches for migrating large, multi-terabyte MySQL or MariaDB databases from an on-premises server to the AWS Cloud.

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    Tags: Databases | Migration

    Last update
    November 21, 2024

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    Machine learning
    Machine learning

    Retrieval Augmented Generation options on AWS

    Created by AWS
    Learn about the generative AI options for creating a RAG-based application on AWS that answers questions by referencing your custom documents.

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    Tags: Machine Learning

    Last update
    October 28, 2024

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    Machine learning
    Machine learning

    Deploy a RAG use case on AWS

    Created by AWS
    Use Terraform to implement a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) use case that uses large language models (LLMs) on Amazon Bedrock.

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    Tags: Infrastructure | Machine Learning | Serverless | Websites & Web Apps

    Last update
    September 18, 2024
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