AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: Technical How-to
Troubleshooting AWS Systems Manager patching made easy with Amazon Bedrock’s automated recommendations
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 […]
How to detect and monitor Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) access with AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch
While protection of data is critical, equally important is observing who accesses it. AWS services allow you to control your data by determining where it’s stored, who has access, and how it’s secured. AWS CloudTrail provides an effective way to track data access activities. You can detect access attempts, and identify potential unauthorized attempts. CloudTrail, […]
Using Terraform with Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS
In this post, we explore how you can incorporate HashiCorp Terraform to manage your Amazon Web Services (AWS) application infrastructure after using AWS Control Tower with Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to manage your AWS ecosystem. The LZA deploys a cloud foundation that is architected to align with AWS best practices and multiple global […]
Streamlining AWS Organizations Cleanup Strategies
AWS Organizations provides capabilities for AWS customers to centrally manage accounts in their multi-account environment. As the business landscape evolves, customers may need to close multiple AWS accounts or an entire organization. This could take place during mergers and acquisitions, to support cleanup efforts which reduce cost from unused resources, or decommissioning a venture or […]
Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2024 Cloud Governance and Compliance
We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6. At AWS re:Invent, cloud enthusiasts from all over the world will gather together to collaborate and learn from one another! You will have the opportunity to meet with AWS experts, […]
Operations re:Imagined – Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2024
We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6. At this conference, you’ll have the opportunity to attend thought-provoking keynotes, dive deep into our services, and meet with fellow cloud enthusiasts! No matter your level of expertise, we’ll have sessions […]
Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2024 Monitoring and Observability
Planning to join us in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6 at AWS re:Invent 2024 and looking to learn more about monitoring and observability? If you are, this blog highlights Cloud Operations sessions that focus on monitoring and observability at re:Invent 2024! Monitoring and Observability allows you to understand the health of your applications and […]
Automate creating and onboarding applications with AWS CloudFormation tags and myApplications
Customers operate hundreds of applications and often those applications consist of hundreds to thousands of resources. This can get complex and overwhelming having to monitor and manage individual resources and identifying what resources are tied to an application while making sure their applications are available, secure, cost-optimized, and performing optimally. The underlying concept of applications […]
Leveraging existing tagging strategies for Application Operations
Customers often spend time finding and managing individual resources within their applications. They need to find various applications, manage and perform application tasks, and monitor resources during different stages of the application lifecycle. Customers usually have hundreds to thousands of resources within even a single AWS account. This requires navigating across multiple AWS services pages […]
Introducing AWS Fault Injection Service Actions to Inject Chaos in Lambda functions
Usage of serverless technology in regulated industries like financial services is growing. This growth demands robust resilience validation. Chaos engineering for Serverless has become crucial for ensuring reliable and available serverless applications. By purposefully injecting failures and stresses into serverless components, teams can uncover hidden weaknesses and validate the fault tolerance of their systems. Previously, […]