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AWS Application Discovery Service - AWS Prescriptive Guidance
Product overviewDiscovery, planning, and recommendation capabilities

AWS Application Discovery Service

Last update: May 15, 2023

Product overview

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Product capabilities

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AWS Application Discovery Service

Tool deployment model

Product can be SaaS-based or customer-deployed

  • SaaS on AWS (vendor VPC)

  • Servers deployed on premises in customer environment

Compliance

Not available

Service model

Self-service with vendor support – Deployment, management, and maintenance can be done by customer or end-user with the option of vendor support

Pricing model

No charge

Discovery, planning, and recommendation capabilities

Category

Product capabilities

Discovery method

The ability to support one or more of the following discovery methods:

  • Agentless – Uses protocols or interfaces such as SNMP or WMI

  • Agent-based – Requires installation of software on the source resources, such as Linux or Windows servers

  • Login-based – Uses protocols, such as SSH and RDP, to log in to the source servers

  • Agentless

  • Agent-based

  • Login-based

Resources discoverable

The ability to discover servers, databases, storage systems, network devices, software processes, containers, and mainframes

  • Servers and operating systems

  • Databases

  • Software processes

Operating systems discoverable

  • Linux

  • Windows

Other resources discoverable

No additional information

Discovery of resource profiles

The ability to discover the CPU family (such as x86 or RISC/PowerPC), number of CPU cores, memory size, number of disks, storage size, IOPS, network interfaces, or bandwidth

  • Physical and virtual servers and their profiles

  • Attached storage and profiles – data storage device connected directly to a server or virtual machine (VM)

Resource utilization data collection

The ability to collect time-series utilization data, such peak, average, median, standard deviation, IOPS, throughput, percentile with sampling interval of 5 minutes, and minimum sampling duration of 1 month

  • Physical and virtual server utilization data collection

  • Attached storage utilization data collection

  • Network utilization data collection

Application dependency level

The ability to discover application dependency and export dependency data:

  • Application and server dependency – Individual servers and dependencies that form an application

  • Application and software process dependency – Individual software processes, configurations, and dependencies that form an application

  • Application and code dependency – Individual programming code, configurations, and dependencies that form an application

Application and server dependency

Visualization level

The ability to provide multiple-level visualization of applications:

  • All resource and applications – An entire on-premises or source environment with all resources and applications

  • Single application – A single application across its resources, end to end

  • Single application and its software processes – Individual software processes and dependencies that form an application

  • Single application and its programming code – Individual programming code and dependencies that form an application

  • All resource and applications

  • Single application

Database details discovery, source database system

  • Database engine

  • Database editions

  • Schemas

  • Database size

  • Runtime metrics (for example, server memory usage, client connections, transactions, batch requests)

Database details discovery, database type

  • Microsoft SQL Server

  • MySQL

  • Oracle

  • PostgreSQL

Storage details discovery, systems

Local storage

Storage details discovery, utilization

  • Mean (average) IOPS

  • Peak IOPS

  • Mean (average) throughput (MB per second)

  • Peak throughput (MB per second)

File system details discovery

Not available

Software details discovery

Not available

Container details discovery

Not available

License discovery

Not available

Data sovereignty support

The ability to keep discovered data within a specific geographic region

Not available

Data export ability

The ability to export the discovered data into a usable format, such as CSV or JSON

Available