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Once I converse to large-scale AWS prospects about their challenges and considerations, the dialog usually turns to the subject of multicloud. Whether or not by intent or accidentally, these prospects generally select to utilize companies from multiple cloud supplier, generally along side purposes or companies which might be nonetheless hosted on-premises. In some circumstances they made early, bottom-up selections on the group and division degree, selecting cloud choices from a number of distributors within the absence of a top-down mandate. In others, they acquired or merged with one other group and found an identical multi-vendor scenario.
Whatever the path, these prospects inform me that they wish to simplify and centralize their oversight and administration of this various portfolio of cloud and on-premises sources. It’s generally the case that the “multi” scenario is time-bound, with a plan in place to finally consolidate operations in a single place. It’s also generally the case that the client plans to retain their various portfolio.
AWS and multicloud
Our purpose with AWS is to make you profitable it doesn’t matter what architectural selections you might have made. On this put up I wish to define our strategy, share some capabilities that our prospects have been utilizing over time, and give you an replace on among the newer service bulletins and content material that now we have created to offer you steerage that can allow you to to succeed.
Our strategy is to increase current AWS operational and administration capabilities to work in multicloud and hybrid environments. As a result of we prolong current capabilities, your funding in coaching, improvement, scripting, and runbooks is preserved, and really turns into much more worthwhile because it applies to your different (non-AWS) sources. For instance, you should utilize the identical service (AWS Methods Supervisor) to patch and replace Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) situations, servers operating on-premises, and servers supplied by different cloud suppliers. Equally, you should utilize Amazon CloudWatch to observe purposes, compute sources, and different cloud sources in all of these environments. These are two examples of how we’re placing our strategy into follow for you.
The AWS Options for Hybrid and Multicloud web page comprises extra examples of our extension-based strategy to including new capabilities, alongside some success tales from prospects who’ve put the capabilities to make use of together with Phillips 66 and Deutsche Börse.
Whether or not you select to function fully on AWS or in multicloud and hybrid environments, one of many main causes to undertake AWS is the broad selection of companies we provide, enabling you to innovate, construct, deploy, and monitor your workloads. Simply as we not too long ago launched free knowledge switch out to the web (DTO) once you wish to transfer outdoors of AWS, we’re dedicated to serving to you achieve success no matter your strategy.
Now that I’ve defined our strategy and highlighted among the principal multicloud service choices, let’s check out just a few of the most recent multicloud and hybrid capabilities.
Multicloud launches
Because the starting of 2023 now we have launched eighteen new multicloud capabilities to current AWS companies, together with 15 for knowledge & analytics, 1 for safety, and a couple of for id. Many of those launches add to the present multicloud capabilities of the respective companies:
AWS DataSync – This service transfers knowledge between storage companies. Along with current assist for Google Cloud Storage, Azure Information, and Azure Blob Storage, we added assist for 5 extra cloud service suppliers and storage companies together with Oracle Cloud Storage and DigitalOcean Areas (full listing). To study extra about this service, learn What’s AWS DataSync. To get began, I create a supply location:
AWS Glue – This knowledge integration service lets you uncover, put together, and combine your entire knowledge at any scale. You need to use it to connect with greater than 80 totally different knowledge sources, together with cloud databases and analytics companies. In October 2023, we launched extra new connectors that will let you transfer knowledge bidirectionally between Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3), and both Azure Blob Storage or Azure Information Lake Storage (full listing). We additionally launched six database connectors for AWS Glue for Apache Spark, together with Teradata, SAP HANA, Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB, Vertica, and MongoDB (full listing). To study extra about AWS Glue, learn What’s AWS Glue. I create a visible job stream to get began:
Amazon Athena – This serverless analytics service permits you to use interactive SQL queries to research petabyte-scale knowledge the place it lives (greater than 25 exterior knowledge sources, together with different cloud knowledge shops), with out copying or remodeling it. Final 12 months we added a brand new knowledge supply connector that lets you question knowledge in Google Cloud Storage. To study extra about Amazon Athena, learn What’s Amazon Athena.
Amazon AppFlow – You possibly can reap the benefits of knowledge and analytics in Google BigQuery utilizing a connector out there in Amazon AppFlow. To get began with Amazon AppFlow I create a stream and configure a knowledge supply:
Amazon Safety Lake – This service lets you obtain a extra full, organization-wide view of your safety posture. It centralizes safety knowledge out of your AWS environments, SaaS suppliers, on-premises environments, and cloud sources (Azure and GCP) right into a purpose-built knowledge lake. It grew to become typically out there final 12 months, and now helps assortment and evaluation of safety knowledge from sources that assist the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) normal—greater than 80 sources (full listing).
AWS Secrets and techniques Supervisor – This service centrally manages secrets and techniques similar to database credentials and API keys. Secrets and techniques are securely encrypted and will be centrally audited, with assist for replication to assist catastrophe restoration and multi-region purposes. Final 12 months we introduced you could Use AWS Secrets and techniques Supervisor to retailer and handle secrets and techniques in on-premises or multicloud workloads. To study extra, learn What’s AWS Secrets and techniques Supervisor.
AWS Identification and Entry Administration (IAM) – AWS IAM Identification Middle now helps automated consumer provisioning from Google Workspace. The mixing helps directors simplify AWS entry administration throughout a number of accounts whereas sustaining acquainted Google Workspace experiences for finish customers as they register.
Amazon CloudWatch – This service permits you to question, visualize, and alarm on metrics of all types: utility, AWS, on-premises, and multicloud. At re:Invent 2023 we added much more assist for consolidation of hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises metrics. This new function lets you choose and configure connectors that pull knowledge from Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, generic Prometheus, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, CSV recordsdata saved in Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Microsoft Azure Monitor.
Multicloud content material and steerage
Now that you already know about a few of our newest multicloud launches, let’s check out among the weblog posts and different content material that my colleagues have created.
First, some weblog posts:
Subsequent, among the hottest multicloud movies from AWS re:Invent 2023:
And eventually, be sure you bookmark the AWS Options for Hybrid and Multicloud web page.
We’re right here to assist
If you’re operating in a multicloud setting and are able to simplify and centralize, be sure you attain out to your AWS Account Supervisor (AM) or Technical Account Supervisor (TAM). Each can be pleased to assist!
— Jeff;