Category: Amazon CloudWatch

This post will show you how to take your CloudWatch metrics to the next level by using your AWS resource tags in your monitoring setup.

In this post, Ryan and I show you how to deploy Datadog’s AWS integration for monitoring your accounts with AWS Control Tower using a predefined Datadog AWS Integration blueprint. With Account Factory Customization, you can quickly configure your accounts to meet your business needs.

Managing security across multiple cloud accounts can be complicated and error-prone if you’re taking a manual, piecemeal approach. As you scale, misconfigurations and missed accounts and services can leave you exposed. Automation can help you maintain speed and agility for DevOps and security teams. To quickly onboard and manage security for multiple accounts in AWS, […]

For enterprise organizations, managing security and governance across hundreds or thousands of accounts can be challenging. AWS Control Tower and Lacework make this task much easier and enable seamless multi-account cloud security. By using Lacework in your AWS Control Tower environment, you can automatically and consistently apply security best practices and monitoring to new accounts […]

Having a multi-account strategy is a best practice for achieving higher isolation of resources in AWS. It helps you to meet regulatory and compliance needs, track operational costs, and add an extra layer of security. AWS Control Tower uses AWS best practices to establish a well-architected, multi-account baseline across your AWS accounts. For more information […]

In this blog post, I show you how to configure cloudtamer.io for your AWS Control Tower managed environment. Using this solution you can seamlessly register accounts from both cloudtamer.io and AWS.

AWS Control Tower enables you to create new AWS accounts in your AWS Organization with AWS-recommended best practices and guardrails in place. Our customers and partners often ask for ways to automate the execution of some customizations specific to their organization on the creation of a new AWS account. This is especially true for customers […]

AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog that enables qualified Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to market software solutions and makes it easy for AWS customers to find, buy, and deploy software on AWS. In this post, I will explain a use case where CloudFormation template is a better fit than a Single-AMI solution, and then I […]

In this post, I will summarize the principles discussed in the recent AWS Marketplace webinar, “Making the Move from DevOps to DevSecOps.” If you are on your journey to the cloud with AWS, you are probably already using some DevOps approaches, so you can spin up new Virtual Machines (VMs), test, stage, and deploy applications […]