AWS and Multicloud: Present capabilities & continued enhancements

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After I communicate to large-scale AWS clients about their challenges and issues, the dialog typically turns to the subject of multicloud. Whether or not by intent or accidentally, these clients typically select to utilize companies from multiple cloud supplier, typically along with purposes or companies which might be nonetheless hosted on-premises. In some instances 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 state of affairs.

Whatever the path, these clients inform me that they wish to simplify and centralize their oversight and administration of this numerous portfolio of cloud and on-premises assets. It’s typically the case that the “multi” state of affairs is time-bound, with a plan in place to in the end consolidate operations in a single place. It’s also typically the case that the shopper plans to retain their numerous portfolio.

AWS and multicloud
Our objective with AWS is to make you profitable it doesn’t matter what architectural selections you will have made. On this publish I wish to define our strategy, share some capabilities that our clients have been utilizing through the years, and give you an replace on a few of the more moderen service bulletins and content material that we have now created to provide you steering that can assist 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 lengthen current capabilities, your funding in coaching, growth, scripting, and runbooks is preserved, and truly turns into much more worthwhile because it applies to your different (non-AWS) assets. For instance, you need to use the identical service (AWS Programs Supervisor) to patch and replace Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) cases, servers operating on-premises, and servers offered by different cloud suppliers. Equally, you need to use Amazon CloudWatch to watch purposes, compute assets, and different cloud assets in all of these environments. These are two examples of how we’re placing our strategy into apply for you.

The AWS Options for Hybrid and Multicloud web page comprises further examples of our extension-based strategy to including new capabilities, alongside some success tales from clients who’ve put the capabilities to make use of together with Phillips 66 and Deutsche Börse.

Whether or not you select to function solely on AWS or in multicloud and hybrid environments, one of many main causes to undertake AWS is the broad alternative of companies we provide, enabling you to innovate, construct, deploy, and monitor your workloads. Simply as we lately launched free knowledge switch out to the web (DTO) while you wish to transfer exterior of AWS, we’re dedicated to serving to you achieve success no matter your strategy.

Now that I’ve defined our strategy and highlighted a few of the principal multicloud service choices, let’s check out a couple of of the latest multicloud and hybrid capabilities.

Multicloud launches
Because the starting of 2023 we have now launched eighteen new multicloud capabilities to current AWS companies, together with 15 for knowledge & analytics, 1 for safety, and a pair 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 Recordsdata, and Azure Blob Storage, we added assist for 5 further cloud service suppliers and storage companies together with Oracle Cloud Storage and DigitalOcean Spaces (full record). To be taught 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 all your knowledge at any scale. You need to use it to hook up with greater than 80 completely different knowledge sources, together with cloud databases and analytics companies. In October 2023, we launched further new connectors that help you transfer knowledge bidirectionally between Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3), and both Azure Blob Storage or Azure Data Lake Storage (full record). 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 record). To be taught extra about AWS Glue, learn What’s AWS Glue. I create a visible job stream to get began:

Amazon Athena – This serverless analytics service helps you to use interactive SQL queries to investigate 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 yr we added a brand new knowledge supply connector that lets you question knowledge in Google Cloud Storage. To be taught 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 obtainable 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 turned generally available final yr, and now helps assortment and evaluation of safety knowledge from sources that assist the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) customary—greater than 80 sources (full record).

AWS Secrets and techniques Supervisor – This service centrally manages secrets and techniques corresponding to database credentials and API keys. Secrets and techniques are securely encrypted and might be centrally audited, with assist for replication to assist catastrophe restoration and multi-region purposes. Final yr we introduced which you can Use AWS Secrets and techniques Supervisor to retailer and handle secrets and techniques in on-premises or multicloud workloads. To be taught extra, learn What’s AWS Secrets and techniques Supervisor.

AWS Id and Entry Administration (IAM) – AWS IAM Id Middle now helps automated person 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 check in.

Amazon CloudWatch – This service helps you to question, visualize, and alarm on metrics of all kinds: software, 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 characteristic 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 steering
Now that about a few of our newest multicloud launches, let’s check out a few of the weblog posts and different content material that my colleagues have created.

First, some weblog posts:

Subsequent, a few of the hottest multicloud movies from AWS re:Invent 2023:

And eventually, remember to 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, remember to attain out to your AWS Account Supervisor (AM) or Technical Account Supervisor (TAM). Each will likely be joyful to assist!

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