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Ensuring Uninterrupted Service: AWS Route 53 Health Checks for Ultimate Availability

by admin53, Continuity April 5, 2024April 5, 2024No Comments

Introduction To increase uptime, it is normal to utilize multiple resources that serve identical functions within your on-premise and/or cloud environment. Examples include several web servers or entire multi-tier architectures including web servers, databases, and static data storage; this is a standard practice. However, the challenge arises in ensuring the operational efficiency of a portion …

Revolutionize Your Database: Effortlessly Migrate Your SQL Server to Amazon RDS with the Power of AWS DMS

by arun danielAWS DMS, AWS RDS, CLI, Continuity, SQL March 27, 2023October 6, 2023No Comments

Introduction If you’re running mission-critical workloads on a Microsoft SQL Server database that’s on-premises and want to move to AWS while maintaining the same database engine and minimize/eliminate downtime, AWS Database Migration Service maybe your answer. This post offers a solution for transferring your on-premises SQL Server database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server using …

AWS Application Migration Service – Part 2

by arun danielContinuity February 24, 2023October 6, 2023No Comments

Introduction In continuation of Part 1, we’ll delve deeper into the Application Migration Service, focusing on downloading and configuring the replication agent on the source servers. Additionally, we’ll explore how all launched instances can follow a global template to ensure consistent configuration settings, and how to run scripts after launch for further customization. Prerequisites AWS …

AWS Application Migration Service – Part 1

by arun danielContinuity August 19, 2022October 6, 2023No Comments

Introduction AWS MGN is a highly automated, adaptable, and dependable lift and shift system. Anyone can utilize the AWS application migration service (AWS MGN), a lift-and-shift AWS service, using the AWS administration console. In this post, i will explain the AWS MGN service and network architecture. AWS MGN can assist with streamlining, accelerating, and lowering …

AWS – Elastic Disaster Recovery

by arun danielContinuity May 12, 2022October 6, 2023No Comments

Introduction IT disasters such as data center failures, server corruptions, or cyber-attacks can not only disrupt your business, but also cause data loss, impact your revenue, and damage your reputation. AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (commonly referred to as DRS) minimizes downtime and data loss by providing fast, reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers …

Manual VM Import to AWS

by arun danielContinuity October 14, 2021October 6, 2023No Comments

I have been getting asked more and more how to manually import on-premise virtual machines into AWS, without using other services such as CloudEndure or AWS Migration Services. Some may want a quick and dirty way to get the source to the destination without spinning up any extra appliances, going through Change Control, or just …

Setup a Highly Available Website in AWS Using Terraform

by arun danielContinuity, Terraform October 14, 2021October 6, 2023No Comments

Have you ever awoken from a deep sleep and been in the mood to setup a highly available, load balanced website using NGINX, while having the webpages pulled securely from an S3 bucket that also happens to hold your NGINX logs? Me neither; however, I was asking for a friend. Even though the question is …