AWS Prescriptive Guidance

Resources from AWS technology experts and AWS Partners to help accelerate cloud adoption and modernization

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Prescriptive Guidance provides time-tested strategies, guides, and patterns to help accelerate your cloud migration, modernization, and optimization projects. These resources were developed by AWS technology experts and the global community of AWS Partners, based on their years of experience helping customers realize their business objectives on AWS.

strategies

Business perspectives, methodologies, and frameworks for cloud migration and modernization, for CxOs and senior managers

guides

Guidance for planning and implementing strategies, with focus on best practices and tools, for architects, managers, and technical leads

patterns

Steps, architectures, tools, and code for implementing common migration, optimization, and modernization scenarios, for builders and other hands-on users

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    Deploy workloads from Azure DevOps pipelines to private Amazon EKS clusters

    Created by AWS
    Learn how to deploy workloads from Azure DevOps pipelines to private Amazon EKS clusters that help increase an organization’s security posture.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Containers | DevOps

    Last update
    June 18, 2025

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    Management & governance
    Management & governance

    Clean up AFT resources safely

    Created by AWS
    How to identify and remove AWS Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) resources while maintaining the integrity of your AWS Control Tower environment, if you lose the Terraform state file.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: DevOps | Infrastructure | Management & Governance

    Last update
    June 12, 2025

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    Security
    Security

    Deploy AWS Control Tower controls using AWS CDK

    Created by AWS
    Use CloudFormation infrastructure as code (IaC) and AWS CDK to manage AWS Control Tower controls that monitor compliance and govern your resources.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Infrastructure | Management & Governance | Security

    Last update
    June 12, 2025

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    Databases

    Disaster recovery strategy for databases on AWS

    Created by AWS
    Steps and strategies for defining, implementing, automating, and testing a disaster recovery (DR) plan for your databases in the AWS Cloud.

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    Tags: Databases | Infrastructure

    Last update
    June 11, 2025

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    Management & governance
    Management & governance

    Best practices for building a hybrid cloud architecture

    Created by AWS
    Architectures and best practices for adopting AWS hybrid and edge services such as AWS Outposts and AWS Local Zones to build a hybrid cloud environment with AWS. Includes designs and considerations for networking, security, resiliency, capacity planning, and infrastructure management.

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    Tags: Containers | Hybrid cloud | Management & Governance | Networking & Remote Access

    Last update
    June 10, 2025

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    Security
    Security

    Deploy AWS Control Tower controls using Terraform

    Created by AWS
    Use Terraform infrastructure as code (IaC) to manage AWS Control Tower controls that monitor compliance and govern your AWS resources.

    HTML | PDF

    Tags: Infrastructure | Management & Governance | Security

    Last update
    June 10, 2025

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    Security
    Security

    Bidirectionally integrate Security Hub and Jira

    Created by AWS
    Integrate Security Hub and Jira so that findings automatically generate tickets. When manual or automatic updates occur, the status is synchronized across both services.

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    Tags: Security

    Last update
    June 10, 2025

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    Migration
    Migration

    Migrate a SQL Server database to Amazon EC2 using AWS MGN

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    Use AWS Application Migration Service to rehost a Microsoft SQL Server database from on premises to Amazon EC2.

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    Tags: Databases | Migration

    Last update
    June 06, 2025

  • Pattern

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    Developer tools
    Developer tools

    Set up centralized logging at enterprise scale

    Created by AWS
    Use Terraform and AWS services to build a secure, scalable framework for centralizing logs from multiple AWS accounts and services. The goal is to enable enterprise-scale logging management across complex AWS deployments.

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    Tags: DevOps | Management & Governance

    Last update
    June 06, 2025
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