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Models of Migration on AWS

Models of Migration on AWS

Cloud computing does offer many benefits to users who are just starting to put together applications and solutions. Having an existing solution will not preclude an organization from being able to take advantage of the cloud. Migrating those solutions to a cloud environment can prove to be tricky for users who haven’t planned in advance.

What is DevOps and How Developers Benefit

What is DevOps and How Developers Benefit

DevOps is a composition of best practices, principles, and company cultural concepts that are tailored to improve coordination in either development or IT teams in an organization. These standards help to streamline and automate the delivery cycle and allow teams to deploy applications sooner. In the case of arising issues, teams can respond faster and develop fixes sooner.

Optimizing DevOps for Cloud-Native Applications

Optimizing DevOps for Cloud-Native Applications

Running DevOps on the cloud is a matter of orienting the developer team to be more receptive to how the advantages of the cloud will be applied. The automation and scaling features of the cloud can significantly develop velocity significantly. There are a number of principles to consider when implementing this type of strategy.

Top 5 DevOps Monitoring Tools

Top 5 DevOps Monitoring Tools

Having the right DevOps monitoring tools is important. Not only is it good for picking out bugs and other facets that require improvement, but it helps to better optimize and plan on an application’s continued development. Because DevOps monitoring directly boosts the health of the app and the business, having the right tool for the job matters significantly.

Developing an AWS Multi-Account Strategy

Developing an AWS Multi-Account Strategy

There are several good strategic reasons for having multiple accounts tethered to a single AWS environment. For security, governance, and scalability purposes, it is ideal to have a number of accounts working together in an environment for the various employees to have access. Ideally, the following should be incorporated into the environment to make the most of what AWS can offer.

AWS Well Architected Framework DevOps Best Practices

AWS Well Architected Framework DevOps Best Practices

Having a good DevOps loop is crucial for the continuous life cycle of a given application. Until an application project is abandoned, from the moment it is successfully launched, application maintenance is a vicious cycle of gathering user data, adding features, resolving bugs and kinks, and subsequently releasing. AWS does have the capacity to support this, but it’s fairly complex maximizing that efficiency.

AWS Well Architected Framework Remediation

AWS Well Architected Framework Remediation

Ideally, optimization of an AWS environment should be a one-and-done task, but there are plenty of risk factors to consider and sufficient room to forget. High risk issues (HRIs) are architectural and operational decisions that could very easily negatively impact how a business works. Even with in-house help with the automated assistant tools, it is best practice to have manual third-party help to best optimize for individual needs and requirements the business may have.

What is AWS Pinpoint?

What is AWS Pinpoint?

Along with other marketing tools, AWS Pinpoint is a solution to better allow for multi-channel marketing. It is designed to work with current channels of communication and offers flexibility in its application. It is everything needed for campaigns, tracking customer interaction, and utilizing data to improve marketing efforts.

Traditional IT vs. AWS – How Small Businesses can Benefit

Traditional IT vs. AWS – How Small Businesses can Benefit

AWS solutions can accomplish a variety of problems and tasks including IT needs. Even smaller businesses that have a more limited scope that their businesses cover can look to find some way to upgrade their business operations through what Amazon has to offer. Though it may be intimidating and difficult to adapt to, there is more than enough reason to adopt AWS.

AWS Think Big with Small Business Program’s Competitive Edge

AWS Think Big with Small Business Program’s Competitive Edge

The Amazon Cloud can help alleviate most issues involving transitioning the cloud. Businesses of any scope can hope to build solutions that are scalable and adaptable to their industry of work. Smaller or minority-owned businesses may still struggle to stand out among bigger companies or make an AWS environment as efficient as possible with fewer funds to spend. To alleviate these burdens, Amazon has the Think Big With Small Business program available through their Public Sector partnership program.

AWS Think Big for Small Business, Data Analytics, and Business Intelligence

AWS Think Big for Small Business, Data Analytics, and Business Intelligence

The AWS Think Big for Small Business Program is an outreach program designed to provide small and/or minority-owned public sector organizations support in the form of business intelligence, technical expertise, and marketing strategies. With cloud-based solutions and experience, various public institutions globally have seen continued success in government, educational, and nonprofit sectors. While the funding provided can help significantly to meet business objectives, the expertise on navigating the cloud and how to extend outwards towards customers is just as critical.

Best Practices for Using AWS Systems Manager

Best Practices for Using AWS Systems Manager

As newer users adopt the AWS cloud, it can be difficult to watch for issues and resolve them as needed. AWS Systems Manager grants better visibility over the AWS environment by clustering resources, providing legible and usable data based on performance, and actions to take that abide by AWS compliance requirements and best practices. This service provides everything management needs to evaluate the cloud and ensure continued functionality.

How the AWS Well-Architected Tool Improves Your Environment

How the AWS Well-Architected Tool Improves Your Environment

The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a set of standards for best practices designed to maximize efficiency, stability, security, and resilience on the platform. These are some incredibly difficult standards to achieve and it is ideal to seek help from a third party to review the infrastructure. Amazon does provide additional tools for helping to verify that an environment does meet standards.

AWS Financial Services

AWS Financial Services

While the Amazon Cloud at large is meant to be flexible in how it is applied, there are a number of services that are more directly tailored to specific industries. The financial industry for example has solutions set out to help them merge their usual operations with the benefits cloud technology can provide. It has provided many companies with the capability to adapt to new regulations and further optimize their existing services.While the Amazon Cloud at large is meant to be flexible in how it is applied, there are a number of services that are more directly tailored to specific industries. The financial industry for example has solutions set out to help them merge their usual operations with the benefits cloud technology can provide. It has provided many companies with the capability to adapt to new regulations and further optimize their existing services.

Small Business Cost Optimization with AWS

Small Business Cost Optimization with AWS

AWS might seem like a steep investment for smaller businesses that need a cloud solution. With fewer resources to expend, there’s much less breathing room for error and a greater need to optimize. Amazon does provide a myriad of ways to shave off additional costs while also making customers’ AWS environments more efficient.

Tools and Best Practices for Governance on AWS

Tools and Best Practices for Governance on AWS

Cloud infrastructure has much faster agility and responsiveness compared to more traditional IT solutions. As resources will be considerably more expendable, there will be a greater tolerance for failures. However, cloud infrastructure does require a strong combination of IT governance and organizational governance to ensure a cloud environment is both agile and safe. Finding that balance can be a significant challenge.

Mistakes to Avoid with AWS Well-Architected Framework

Mistakes to Avoid with AWS Well-Architected Framework

Understandably, AWS does require a high amount of specialized knowledge to work with. It is a highly technical platform and cloud computing is still a relatively new field of work and study. It is incredibly easy to make mistakes from both a business perspective and a technical perspective and could result in falling short of operational goals, superfluous designs, poor optimization, and vulnerabilities.

AWS Well Architected Framework Best Practices

AWS Well Architected Framework Best Practices

The AWS Well-Architected Framework is a set of guidelines that help users develop their environments in a way that’s reliable, secure, efficient, and cost-effective. It’s a complicated process, but there are several key objectives that developers can and should follow when constructing a project on the Amazon cloud. Having objectives to follow can help improve establishing those benchmarks.

AllCode is an AWS Public Sector Partner

AllCode is an AWS Public Sector Partner

Globally, various AWS partnered companies such as ourselves are lending their services to public sector organizations to overcome and circumnavigate a variety of technical challenges with the cloud. Through the Public Sector Partnership Program, Amazon aims to boost their partners’ visibility to government entities and improve engagement overall. Both partner and public sector organizations alike can hope to benefit through this program through improved marketing materials and streamline operations respectively.

What is AWS IQ

What is AWS IQ

Building on the Amazon cloud can be complicated as it does require an extensive amount of knowledge beforehand on how to work with many of the services. AWS IQ is a marketplace where experts can sell their expertise and users can put out requests for specific cloud needs. Along with putting out a task, parties can then discuss terms of payment, scope of the project, scheduling, and project requirements.

Managed Container Apps Effortlessly with AWS App Runner

Managed Container Apps Effortlessly with AWS App Runner

Amazon also supports the construction of web applications among other types of projects and solutions on their platform. Even with less experience, users are given a reliable platform for running containers or applications securely and at scale. AWS App Runner is capable of adjusting to the needs of the application whether it be compliance, the scale it needs to operate at, and latency.

How to Setup AWS Control Tower in Your Environment

How to Setup AWS Control Tower in Your Environment

High control and governance is a large focal point of Amazon’s Cloud services. Another solid service for maintaining the wellbeing and compliance of any AWS service is Control Tower, helping to further simplify governance with enough room to integrate third-party software for scaling. AWS Control Tower main function is for the construction and monitoring of new AWS environments regardless of size and complexity.