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AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces helps customers incrementally refactor applications while shielding end users from the changes of infrastructure and using the strangler fig pattern. This enables customers to refactor their legacy applications into a series of microservices while continuing to operate the existing application in production. Refactor Spaces achieves this by orchestrating a number […]

Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully-managed, secure Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution that runs on AWS. AWS provides several choices to deploy desktops to users. Some organizations need help integrating this process into their existing automation and Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) tools. Many customers that we talk to want to have a bulk provisioning process, approval process, […]

AWS AppConfig helps you create, manage, and deploy application configuration. One crucial use case for AppConfig is feature flagging, which lets you release features quickly and safely. Using AppConfig Feature Flags, you can separate code from configuration data and hide new features behind a configuration flag.  When ready to release that feature, you simply update the […]

Refactor Spaces, an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Migration Hub feature, eliminates the undifferentiated work of building and operating AWS infrastructure for incremental application refactoring (typically to microservices using the strangler fig pattern).  Building and operating this infrastructure also becomes more complex when making use of multiple AWS accounts (a best practice). While Refactor Spaces saves […]

Many customers use ServiceNow for Incident Management, and have asked how they can create ServiceNow incidents when CloudWatch alarms are triggered in their AWS environment. The AWS post Learn how to leverage Amazon CloudWatch alarms to create an incident in ServiceNow explains how to leverage Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topics to send messages […]

Many of our customers who run Oracle databases need help with managing their Oracle licenses on AWS and ensuring that they have not fallen out of compliance with Oracle’s licensing rules. They must be prepared to provide relevant evidence in an auditor-friendly format during an Oracle license audit. Gathering evidence in a timely manner to […]

Time to read 10 minutes Time to complete 1 hour Cost to complete $15 per day (WordPress Multi-AZ application, AWS ResilienceHub Application and recommendations Learning level 200 – Intermediate Services used AWS ResilienceHub, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Fault Injection Simulator AWS Resilience Hub provides a central place to define, validate, and track the resiliency […]

Customers use AWS Control Tower Account Factory to create a new AWS account or enroll existing AWS accounts in their AWS Organizations. Customers launch Account Factory from the AWS Control Tower console or via AWS Service Catalog API. We hear from customers that they want to manage their AWS accounts in the same way that […]

Patch Management is a critical operation that every organization wants to prioritize. This becomes tedious and challenging if an enterprise operates on a platform-consumer or hub-spoke model. An example of this would be a multi-account environment with hundreds of accounts and thousands of users using applications hosted in AWS. Different application owners have different requirements […]

Customers operating in highly-regulated spaces often tell us about the compliance challenges that they face when procuring commercial software in the cloud. This is especially true for federal customers subject to the GSA Schedule , or state and local customers operating under NASPO Value Point. Procurements in this space often require negotiated purchasing agreements and […]