AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB), one of Germany’s largest direct banks with over five million customers. In 2023, DKB migrated their back-office IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This Included their diverse infrastructure, backup, networking, and both Windows and Linux servers, while managing risks like downtime, data integrity, and security vulnerabilities. Customers in regulated industries […]

Detecting security risks and investigating the corresponding findings is essential for protecting your AWS environment from potential threats, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and resources for your business needs. AWS provides a range of governance and security services such as AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Config along with many others, […]

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 […]

In January 2023, AWS announced the support of ingestion for activity events from non-AWS sources using CloudTrail Lake. Making CloudTrail Lake a single location of immutable user and API activity events for auditing and security investigations. AWS CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing user and API activity on […]

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 in AWS Chatbot to help you understand your application health and resolve issues faster from chat channels.

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 […]

As applications scale, customers need more automated practices to maintain application availability and reduce the time and effort spent detecting, debugging, and resolving operational issues. Organizations allocate money and developer time to deploy and manage various monitoring tools, while also dedicating considerable effort to training teams on their usage. When issues arise, operators navigate through […]

AWS Backup is a comprehensive service that simplifies the process of centralizing and automating data protection across various AWS services, both in the cloud and on-premises, all managed seamlessly. Organizations have different requirements and want to track their backup, copy and restore activities across AWS cloud resources. Currently, in order to view status of resource […]

Customer applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) often require handling sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or protected health information (PHI). As a result, sensitive log data can be intentionally or unintentionally logged as part of an application’s observability data. While comprehensive logging is important for application troubleshooting, monitoring and forensics, any […]