Migrate your Applications to Containers at Scale

AWS App2Container is a command line tool that you can install on a server to automate the containerization of applications. This simplifies the process of migrating a single server to containers. But if you have a fleet of servers, the process of migrating all of them could be quite time-consuming.

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Exploring Data Transfer Costs for AWS Managed Databases

When selecting managed database services in AWS, it’s important to understand how data transfer charges are calculated – whether it’s relational, key-value, document, in-memory, graph, time series, wide column, or ledger. This blog will outline the data transfer charges for several AWS managed database offerings to help you choose the most cost-effective setup for your workload.

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Top 5: Featured Architecture Content for October

The AWS Architecture Center provides new and notable reference architecture diagrams, vetted architecture solutions, AWS Well-Architected best practices, whitepapers, and more. This blog post features some of our best picks from the new and newly updated content we released in the past month. 

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Field Notes: Understanding Carrier Codes, Message Structure, and Interaction Analytics with Amazon Pinpoint

IT developers are frequently looking for an analytics system that tracks app user behavior and engagement with various marketing campaigns. It can be challenging to differentiate between use cases and advantages of utilizing Long Codes, Short Codes and Toll-Free numbers to feed into interaction analytics.

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New Strategy Recommendations Service Helps Streamline AWS Cloud Migration and Modernization

Determining viable strategies for successful application migration and modernization to the cloud takes time. It can also require significant effort, depending on the size and complexity of the application portfolio to analyze. To date, the analysis process has been largely manual and nonstandard in nature, making it difficult to apply at scale on large portfolios.

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AIX UNIX on-premises to Azure Linux migration

This solution describes a migration from an IBM AIX Unix platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) in Azure. The real-world example was a Health and Human Services application for a large customer. Low transaction time and latency were important requirements for both the legacy and the Azure systems.

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Field Notes: Perform Automations in Ungoverned Regions During Account Launch Using AWS Control Tower Lifecycle Events

Organizations use AWS Control Tower to set up and govern secure, multi-account AWS environments. Frequently enterprises with a global presence want to use AWS Control Tower to perform automations during the account creation including in AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower service is not available

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Field Notes: Building a Multi-Region Architecture for SQL Server using FCI and Distributed Availability Groups

A multiple-Region architecture for Microsoft SQL Server is often a topic of interest that comes up when working with our customers. The main reasons customers adopt a multiple-Region architecture approach for SQL Server deployments are: Business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) Geographically distributed customer base, and improved latency for end users We will explain the architecture patterns that you can follow to effectively design a highly available SQL Server deployment, which spans two or more AWS Regions.

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