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Tag: Management and Governance

Streamlining the Correction of Errors process using Amazon Bedrock

Generative AI can streamline the Correction of Errors process, saving time and resources. By using generative AI to leverage large language models, combined with the Correction of Errors process, businesses can expedite the identification and documentation of the cause of errors, while saving time and resources. Purpose and set-up The purpose of this blog is […]

Streamline change processes ­and improve governance with AWS Well-Architected

The AWS Well-Architected Framework (WA Framework) is designed to help cloud architects build secure, resilient, high-performing, and efficient workloads on AWS. It is structured around six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. Figure 1. The pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework This post provides insights on how to streamline your change-management […]

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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 […]

How Merck Automated AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Initialization and Monitoring

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 […]

Streamline Compliance Management with AWS Config custom rules and conformance packs

Streamline compliance management with AWS Config custom rules and conformance packs

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 […]

Elevating Your AWS Observability: Unlocking the Power of Amazon CloudWatch Alarms

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 […]

Automate your Multicloud operations with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Lambda

A multicloud strategy presents various challenges, including observing and managing applications and infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms. Maintaining consistent tooling for visualizing operational data and automating actions helps organizations address this challenge. Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Systems Manager are two services that provide unified monitoring, observability, and automation capabilities for workloads deployed on AWS, on-premises, […]

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How to perform Failover and Failback using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) between VMware and AWS environments

Enterprises face a variety of threats such as natural disasters, cyber-attacks and technology failures that could severely disrupt operations. A comprehensive disaster recovery plan is crucial to quickly respond and recover from these events. In this blog post, we’ll show how to plan and implement a comprehensive disaster recovery solution between your VMware on-premises environment […]

Protect your AWS resources from unauthorized access using AWS Organizations integrations

In today’s digital landscape, customers have complex and distributed workloads running on AWS, involving a large number of AWS resources across multiple services. Tackling security risks across numerous resources can seem daunting, but with the right approach following best practices, can be addressed in a timely manner. AWS offers tools and services designed to help […]

Simplifying remediation using AWS Systems Manager with Amazon Q Developer

In this blog post, we will build a custom automation document for resolving the non-compliant resource status through  AWS Systems Manager Automation. Building an AWS Systems Manager (SSM) document using Amazon Q Developer involves creating a JSON or YAML document that defines the desired state of your managed instances in AWS. SSM documents are used […]