Category: Management & Governance

Have you ever been investigating a problem and opened up a log file and thought “I have no idea what I am looking at. If only I could get a summary of the data.” Observability and log data play an important role in maintaining operational excellence and ensuring the reliability of your applications and services. […]

AWS has been named as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, previously known as Gartner Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Magic Quadrant. This report assesses vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Compared to the previous year, AWS has moved up higher on the Ability […]

Blog is guest authored by Nasia Ullas of MSD. Enhancing the resilience and productivity of manufacturing processes is essential for pharmaceutical companies to meet business continuity objectives and innovate continuously. Merck & Co., Inc., also known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, a global bio-pharmaceutical company, mitigated resilience challenges by adopting AWS […]

AWS Resilience Hub is a central location in the AWS Management Console for you to manage and improve the resilience posture of your applications on AWS. AWS Resilience Hub enables you to define your resilience goals, assess your resilience posture against those goals, and implement recommendations for improvement based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. AWS […]

Customers in highly regulated industries, such as Financial Services or Healthcare and Life Sciences, often need to audit every action made in environments with sensitive data. Regulations like HIPAA or FFIEC, and industry frameworks like the PCI DSS, require granular log entries that record user and administrative actions within an environment containing sensitive data, and […]

Customers have been using various forms of automation for years to define a sequence of actions on Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS). While before, customers were facing operational overhead related to EBS tasks, AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Automations can now be leveraged to meet a wide variety of customer use cases. In this blog post, a […]

In this blog post, we will show you how to manage your compliance controls with AWS Config custom rules (custom rules) written in AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard) domain-specific language (DSL) with use of conformance packs. AWS CloudFormation Guard, the language used to write custom policy rules is an open-source domain-specific language (DSL) and command line […]

With the pace of innovation with Generative AI applications, there is increasing demand for more granular observability into applications using Large Language Models (LLMs). Specifically, customers want visibility into: Prompt metrics like token usage, costs, and model IDs for individual transactions and operations, apart from service-level aggregations. Output quality factors including potential toxicity, harm, truncation […]

Organizations commonly leverage AWS services to enhance the observability and operational excellence of their workloads. However, often it is unclear the actions that teams should take when observability metrics are delivered to them, it can be difficult to understand which metrics need action to remediate and which ones are simply noise. For example, if an […]

Introduction Cloud migration is a transformative journey that unlocks new opportunities for businesses. However, this transition can be overwhelming, and it necessitates a phased approach that utilizes different migration strategies. Initially, applications that require minimal changes are migrated using lift and shift strategy. More complex monolithic applications, that require re-architecting or refactoring to leverage cloud-native capabilities, are […]