Category: DevOps

Triaging the impact of AWS Health events is one of the most repetitive jobs in cloud operations, and it is exactly the kind of work AWS DevOps Agent can take on. Scheduled maintenance, operational issues, and Trust & Safety notifications (alerts about resources that may violate the AWS Acceptable Use Policy) land in your inbox […]

Introduction July was a busy month for AWS Observability. We launched features to make the telemetry you already collect more actionable, and take the operational work of collecting it off your hands. Log analytics moved closer to action with alarms that run straight from a log query and enrichment that happens at ingestion. Application-level observability […]

Your on-premises firewalls, routers, and switches emit syslog that record device events such as denied connections, tunnel state changes, and routing changes. Network devices send their logs over syslog rather than the Amazon CloudWatch Logs API, so bringing that data into AWS takes extra components. A common approach has been to run a collection tier […]

The production standards that matter most are often the ones no general purpose tool is built to check. For example, the read replica behind your customer dashboard can’t lag more than five seconds behind the primary, but the analytics replica can tolerate lag during peak ingestion. The nightly extract, transform, and load (ETL) job should […]

Introduction Welcome to the latest edition of This Month in AWS Observability, featuring what’s new across Amazon CloudWatch and AI-driven operations this June! Native OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL querying is now generally available in CloudWatch, 23 new Logs Insights commands launched for deeper statistical and structured analysis, Session Replay now in CloudWatch RUM, and AWS […]

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS DevOps Agent. AWS DevOps Agent is your always-available operations teammate. It resolves and proactively prevents incidents, optimizes application reliability and performance, and handles on-demand SRE tasks across AWS, multicloud, and on-premises environments. Operations teams spend countless hours investigating incidents, correlating data across multiple tools, and manually triaging […]

Application issues require fast resolution to maintain business continuity and customer satisfaction, but manual investigation creates delays that can cost organizations significantly in lost revenue and productivity. Last week, we launched AWS DevOps Agent (Preview), a frontier agent that resolves and proactively prevents incidents, continuously improving reliability and performance of applications in AWS, multicloud, and […]

An effective patch management is foremost for maintaining system security, reliability, and compliance across your IT infrastructure. AWS Systems Manager (SSM) provides a comprehensive patching solution, enabling you to automate the deployment of operating system updates to your nodes deployed on AWS, on-premises, and multicloud environments. However, as your organization scales, tracking and reporting on […]

Keeping your AWS infrastructure up-to-date and secure is a critical part of maintaining a robust and reliable cloud environment. AWS Systems Manager’s patching capabilities are a powerful tool in this effort, allowing you to automatically apply the latest security updates and bug fixes to your managed nodes, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, on-premises […]

Ten features in AWS Chatbot to help you understand your application health and resolve issues faster from chat channels.