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Enhance Amazon EKS Containerized Application Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub
Building and managing resilient, micro-service based Containerized applications in a distributed environment is hard; maintaining and operating them is even harder. Even though containerized applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) take advantage of the performance, scale, reliability, and availability of AWS infrastructure which, we need to understand that failures will occur and […]
How CyberArk Implements Feature Flags with AWS AppConfig
Written by Ran Isenberg, Principal Architect at CyberArk Feature flags are a powerful tool that allow you to change software behavior. In addition, feature flags can improve your CI/CD pipeline by enabling capabilities, such as A/B testing, thus making them an enabler of DevOps and a crucial part of any CI/CD pipeline. However, feature flagging […]
Using Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor time to expiration for Reserved Instances | Amazon Web Services
This post shows you how to monitor the days remaining for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. The solution uses a custom Amazon CloudWatch metric published via an AWS Lambda function. It creates a CloudWatch alarm and an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for notification when the alarm exceeds the user-defined threshold. CloudWatch allows you […]
Automate AWS Config reporting for noncompliant resources that have been non-compliant for a period of time
AWS Config evaluates the configuration settings of your AWS resources. You do this by creating AWS Config rules, which represent your ideal configuration settings. AWS Config provides customizable, predefined rules called AWS Managed Rules to help you get started. While AWS Config continuously tracks the configuration changes that occur among your resources, it checks whether […]
How Capgemini used AWS Systems Manager and AWS cloud native observability to provide self-service monitoring
This post was written in collaboration with David Wansell, an Enterprise Cloud Architect at Capgemini with over 20 years of experience across multiple enterprise domains. He designs and builds automation and solutions that enable customers to deliver on their desired outcomes in their cloud adoption journey. Customers need a way to automatically create alarms that […]
How Capgemini used AWS Systems Manager and AWS cloud native observability to provide self-service logging and analytics
This post was written in collaboration with David Wansell, an Enterprise Cloud Architect at Capgemini with over 20 years of experience across multiple enterprise domains. He designs and builds automation and solutions that enable customers to deliver on their desired outcomes in their cloud adoption journey. Log analysis helps customers to manage infrastructure and applications […]
Use AWS Lambda with AWS Control Tower Audit account to inspect your multi-account setup
When you are building workloads on AWS, you are encouraged to follow a multi-account strategy to isolate workloads into multiple AWS accounts. You can do this to separate your accounts based on different business units, different stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) or another manner that is suitable for your organization’s needs. Whichever approach […]
Moving from a single account AWS Config deployment to an Organization wide deployment
As customers become more mature in the cloud, they will start to investigate how they can utilize additional AWS services in order to meet their goals. In many cases the initial phase will involve some research and testing of the service before deploying it across their cloud environment. For customers that may need to maintain […]
How Thomson Reuters used Amazon CloudWatch to improve availability and operational efficiency of Directory Services
Thomson Reuters Corporation (TR) is a Canadian multinational media company that provides critical online and print information, know-how, decision making tools, software, and services for the legal industry. TR’s Tax and Accounting business serves law firms, tax and accounting firms, global trade organizations, educational institutions, and more. Thomson Reuters operates in more than 100 countries […]
Monitor AWS Application Migration Service in Multiple Accounts and Regions
Customers commonly begin their journey to AWS by rehosting (lifting-and-shifting) servers in their on-premises environment. They do this for various business reasons, including shifting from capital to operational expense, reducing total cost of ownership, reducing support costs, data center exit, and many others. AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) is the automated lift-and-shift service that facilitates […]