AWS Managed Services targets enterprise workloads

January 5, 2017 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Brandon Bulter.

AWS (Amazon Web Services) recently announced a new Managed Services product for its public cloud that aims to ease migration of legacy enterprise applications. AWS Managed Services is a series of infrastructure operations management tools meant to provide ongoing management, support, monitoring, and security of an AWS cloud environment.

It’s delivered jointly by AWS employees and certified AWS partners and is meant to serve AWS’s largest clients who are planning to migrate workloads to Amazon’s public cloud. Gartner Vice President and Distinguished Analyst Lydia Leong says most workloads can be broken down into two categories:…

Traditional and cloud-native; Gartner calls these mode 1 and mode 2 applications. AWS Managed Services, Leong says, is about creating a platform for migrating traditional, mode 1 enterprise applications to the public cloud…

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