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After I converse to large-scale AWS prospects about their challenges and issues, the dialog typically turns to the subject of multicloud. Whether or not by intent or accidentally, these prospects generally select to utilize companies from a couple of cloud supplier, generally together with functions or companies which might be nonetheless hosted on-premises. In some instances they made early, bottom-up decisions on the crew 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 analogous multi-vendor scenario.
Whatever the path, these prospects inform me that they need to simplify and centralize their oversight and administration of this numerous 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. Additionally it is generally the case that the shopper plans to retain their numerous portfolio.
AWS and multicloud
Our aim with AWS is to make you profitable it doesn’t matter what architectural decisions you have got made. On this submit I need to define our method, share some capabilities that our prospects have been utilizing through the years, and offer you an replace on a number of the newer service bulletins and content material that we have now created to present you steerage that may enable you to to succeed.
Our method 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 use the identical service (AWS Techniques Supervisor) to patch and replace Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) situations, servers operating on-premises, and servers offered by different cloud suppliers. Equally, you should use Amazon CloudWatch to watch functions, compute sources, and different cloud sources in all of these environments. These are two examples of how we’re placing our method into follow for you.
The AWS Options for Hybrid and Multicloud web page comprises extra examples of our extension-based method 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 completely 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 information switch out to the web (DTO) while you need to transfer outdoors of AWS, we’re dedicated to serving to you achieve success no matter your method.
Now that I’ve defined our method and highlighted a number 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 information & 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 information 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 be taught extra about this service, learn What’s AWS DataSync. To get began, I create a supply location:
AWS Glue – This information integration service lets you uncover, put together, and combine all your information at any scale. You need to use it to connect with greater than 80 completely different information sources, together with cloud databases and analytics companies. In October 2023, we launched extra new connectors that assist you to transfer information 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 be taught extra about AWS Glue, learn What’s AWS Glue. I create a visible job movement to get began:
Amazon Athena – This serverless analytics service allows you to use interactive SQL queries to investigate petabyte-scale information the place it lives (greater than 25 exterior information sources, together with different cloud information shops), with out copying or reworking it. Final yr we added a brand new information supply connector that lets you question information in Google Cloud Storage. To be taught extra about Amazon Athena, learn What’s Amazon Athena.
Amazon AppFlow – You may reap the benefits of information and analytics in Google BigQuery utilizing a connector out there in Amazon AppFlow. To get began with Amazon AppFlow I create a movement and configure an information supply:
Amazon Safety Lake – This service lets you obtain a extra full, organization-wide view of your safety posture. It centralizes safety information out of your AWS environments, SaaS suppliers, on-premises environments, and cloud sources (Azure and GCP) right into a purpose-built information lake. It turned usually out there final yr, and now helps assortment and evaluation of safety information from sources that assist the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) commonplace—greater than 80 sources (full listing).
AWS Secrets and techniques Supervisor – This service centrally manages secrets and techniques resembling database credentials and API keys. Secrets and techniques are securely encrypted and could be centrally audited, with assist for replication to assist catastrophe restoration and multi-region functions. Final yr we introduced that you would be able to 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 Identification and Entry Administration (IAM) – AWS IAM Identification Middle now helps automated person provisioning from Google Workspace. The combination helps directors simplify AWS entry administration throughout a number of accounts whereas sustaining acquainted Google Workspace experiences for finish customers as they sign up.
Amazon CloudWatch – This service allows you to question, visualize, and alarm on metrics of all types: 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 function lets you choose and configure connectors that pull information from Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, generic Prometheus, Amazon OpenSearch Service, Amazon RDS for MySQL, Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, CSV information saved in Amazon Easy Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Microsoft Azure Monitor.
Multicloud content material and steerage
Now that you realize about a few of our newest multicloud launches, let’s check out a number of the weblog posts and different content material that my colleagues have created.
First, some weblog posts:
Subsequent, a number of the hottest multicloud movies from AWS re:Invent 2023:
And at last, make sure 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, make sure to attain out to your AWS Account Supervisor (AM) or Technical Account Supervisor (TAM). Each shall be glad to assist!
— Jeff;
