Category: AWS CloudFormation

In this post, we’ll demonstrate how Customers looking to maintain Good Laboratory Practices (GLP), Good Clinical Practices (GCP), Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) can get started evaluating their environments for the controls found in Title 21 of the Code of Federal regulations (CFR) Part 11, and remediate non-compliant resources via a change control process using native […]

AWS Systems Manager Explorer is a customizable operations dashboard that reports information about your AWS resources. Explorer displays an aggregated view of operations data (OpsData) for your AWS accounts and AWS Regions. OpsData also includes information from supporting AWS services, such as AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Compute Optimizer, and AWS Support Center cases, among other […]

The practice of Operational Integration defines how one organization’s people, processes, and tools integrate with the people, processes, and tools of another organization. When certain activities occur within one organization, it may trigger an automated or manual response in another. For example, it’s common for AWS customers to operationally integrate with AWS Support or AWS Managed Services whenever […]

Today AWS customers are rapidly adopting the cloud and at a massive scale. To support this demand, customers must build a strong foundation based on AWS well-architected best practices. A well-architected landing zone is a key construct that lets you vend accounts, provision access, setup security guardrails, and build CI/CD pipelines. However, at scale, implicit […]

This post discusses an automated process for enabling Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) Flow Logs using AWS Config rule remediation. Customers use Amazon VPC Flow logs to capture information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in an Amazon VPC. You can deploy this solution with the help of AWS Control […]

Customers want to migrate their existing Prometheus workloads to the cloud and utilize all that the cloud offers. AWS has services like Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, which lets you scale out Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances based on metrics like CPU or memory utilization. Applications that use Prometheus metrics can easily integrate into […]

Organizations building modern applications require a way to gain actionable insights into their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) workloads. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that collects operational data from logs, metrics, and events. The service lets customers monitor your resources spread across different accounts or regions in a single view, visualize […]

The AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow enables ServiceNow end users to provision, manage, and operate AWS resources natively through ServiceNow. This lets our customers connect a technical operation with a business workflow, perhaps requiring approvals from management or other teams. The key in all of this is empowering and enabling end-users, thereby removing manual […]

Customers need a way to track all of their AWS application resources in one place, and associate metadata like cost center, business unit with those resources centrally. AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry removes the need for complex tag management and allows for customers to aggregate application metadata such as cost center and business units across multiple […]

The customers that we work with often use multiple AWS accounts to meet their business needs. These multi-account environments are built based on the guidelines that AWS published. Customers have created custom mechanisms using AWS Organizations, AWS CloudTrail, and other AWS services to implement the guidelines. AWS Created the AWS Control Tower service as a […]