Category: Management Tools

Many enterprises want to streamline identity management by introducing a single identity provider for their multi-cloud approach. In this post, we’ll cover the integration of single sign-on with Azure Active Directory in the context of AWS Control Tower. Learn how Devoteam A Cloud recently led a migration project where it presented a client with two options for integrating SAML 2.0 federation into their AWS Organization using Azure AD.

Many organizations decide to implement AWS Control Tower because it provides an easy way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment called a landing zone. Mphasis Stelligent offers an AWS Control Tower-based landing zone quick start with modules for automating account access, observability, security suite enablement, deploying industry-specific guardrails, and multi-account networking. Once implemented, companies can provision secure accounts fully baselined for utilization in less than an hour.

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit which many companies and organizations have adopted. OpsWatch from Arvato Systems helps to bridge the gap between Prometheus native and non-native Amazon CloudWatch metrics and Amazon GuardDuty events. OpsWatch does this by consuming metrics, transforming and enriching them. They can be displayed in dashboards and/or trigger alerts. This gives the operator a single pane of Prometheus with powerful monitoring capabilities.

Shoreline empowers support and L1 teams to resolve incidents by providing rich debugging capabilities to accelerate root cause analysis, and enables developers with powerful debugging tools to run across their cloud deployments. Shoreline’s library of pre-built automations empowers teams with self-service tools to provide a non-disruptive support experience to customers. With Shoreline, previous remediations that were tedious and time consuming are transformed to an automated and interactive process.

The growth of cloud and managed services presents Managed Service Providers (MSPs) with a unique opportunity to grow their business. In this era of change, MSPs must look beyond traditional cloud operations and infrastructure. By expanding your services and building an in-house CCoE, and with guidance from the AWS Managed Service Provider Program, you can evolve your MSP business from the outdated, traditional framework into one that is truly next-generation.

Data centers represent the information bedrock that supports many aspects of the modern economy. When building cloud workloads, the practice of sustainability is to understand environmental impacts like energy consumption and apply best practices to reduce these impacts. Learn why IT operations have become a crucial component of sustainability strategies, and how IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management (ARM) can help AWS customers with sustainability in the cloud.

We are excited to announce the new AWS Control Tower specialization for AWS Partners with AWS Control Tower service and software offerings. AWS Control Tower provides an easy way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment—reducing complexity and time required to establish governance for multiple AWS accounts. Customers can now choose customized services and software solutions from AWS Partners that complement AWS Control Tower.

The Track-It! help desk and endpoint management system helps an organization track all IT tasks and end-user issues and requests in one place. The new AWS Quick Start for Track-It! help desk software by BMC Software solves this problem by simplifying the setup, configuration, and ongoing management of the system. It provides users an easy to implement, secure, globally accessible help desk and endpoint management system in a fraction of the time and cost of doing it yourself.

Customers considering advanced monitoring solutions based on machine learning to reduce false alarm notifications can choose DXC Technology as their implementation partner due to its vast domain experience across industry verticals and deep cloud technology expertise. Learn how DXC analyzed the challenges faced by a large global pharmaceutical company and how the proposed monitoring solution helped the customer save effort in handling false incidents.

Learn how T-Systems has enabled AWS Config at scale on Deutsche Telekom IT’s AWS landing zone, which is a brownfield environment with more than 600 AWS accounts. AWS Config is a governance and compliance service that enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your resources. The main motivator for Deutsche Telekom IT using AWS Config is that developing compliance checks using custom tools was time consuming, unscalable, and came with a large operational overhead.