AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: Management & Governance
How Stripe architected massive scale observability solution on AWS
This post is co-written with Cody Rioux, Staff Engineer at Stripe and Michael Cowgill, Staff engineer at Stripe Stripe powers online and in-person payment processing and provides financial solutions for businesses of all sizes. Stripe operates a sophisticated microservice environment built on top of AWS. In this blog post we will cover the journey and […]
Strengthen application resilience with myApplications and AWS Resilience Hub
Introduction Today, organizations prioritize managing their applications over infrastructure, focusing on business outcomes while leveraging automation and cloud services to handle the underlying infrastructure. They seek to consolidate key application metrics like health, security, cost, and performance from AWS services such as AWS Security Hub or Amazon CloudWatch. These organizations also need to ensure their […]
Sign-in to AWS Console Mobile Application with an AWS Access Portal or third-party IdP URL
AWS customers rely on the AWS Console Mobile Application to monitor, manage, and receive notifications to stay informed about their AWS resources while away from their desktop devices. Customers who use Single-Sign-On (SSO) can face a unique set of challenges while signing into the AWS Console Mobile Application. While SSO can offer enhanced security and […]
Centralized monitoring and alerting for AWS Systems Manager Agent status on managed nodes across AWS Organization
Has the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) running on your critical servers on-premises or on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) lost healthy connection to AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for some reason and you wanted to be proactively notified when this happens? Do you wish to improve observability of your SSM Agent status and […]
Bootstrap your chaos engineering journey with AWS Fault Injection Service Scenarios Library
Ensuring the reliability and resilience of applications is crucial for maintaining business continuity, delivering a superior customer experience, and staying compliant with industry regulations. As defined in the AWS Well-Architected Framework Reliability Pillar, testing reliability plays an important role in ensuring reliability. Chaos engineering is a powerful way to not only test how your systems […]
Managing access to AWS accounts from Microsoft Teams and Slack at scale using AWS Organizations and AWS Chatbot
Customers use chat collaboration applications like Microsoft Teams and Slack to collaborate and manage their AWS applications. AWS Chatbot is a ChatOps service that enables customers to monitor, troubleshoot issues, and manage AWS applications from chat channels. AWS Chatbot provides autonomy and customizability to DevOps teams operating their AWS environments on the go from chat […]
Automating metrics collection on Amazon EKS with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus managed scrapers
Managing and operating monitoring systems for containerized applications can be a significant operational burden for customers such as metrics collection. As container environments scale, customers have to split metric collection across multiple collectors, right-size the collectors to handle peak loads, and continuously manage, patch, secure, and operationalize these collectors. This overhead can detract from an […]
Enable cloud operations workflows with generative AI using Agents for Amazon Bedrock and Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible […]
Ten features for efficiently managing your AWS applications from Microsoft Teams and Slack using AWS Chatbot
Ten features in AWS Chatbot to help you understand your application health and resolve issues faster from chat channels.
Serverless Governance of Software Deployed with AWS Service Catalog
AWS Service Catalog (Service Catalog) is a powerful tool that empowers organizations to manage and govern approved services and resources. It significantly benefits platform engineering by standardizing environments, accelerating service delivery, and enhancing security. With its automated provisioning and resource management, Service Catalog supports infrastructure as code, enabling scalable, reliable deployments. Platform engineering teams are […]