Category: Management Tools

Customers use AWS Service Catalog to create and manage a catalog of IT services and products approved for use on AWS. Learn how to use AWS Service Catalog Engine for Terraform Cloud to provision your products and benefit from a self-service provisioning model that removes the heavy lifting of managing Terraform infrastructure. End users with a pre-validated catalog of infrastructure and enforce governance through Terraform Cloud features such as team permissions, run tasks, and policy sets.

AWS Trusted Advisor inspects your AWS environment and provides recommendations to optimize infrastructure, improve security and performance, reduce cost, and monitor service quotas. Ensono Envision Advisor turns AWS Trusted Adviser recommendations into validated, prioritized, actionable insights. It ingests data before enriching it with Ensono IP to contextualize recommendations specific to end customers, making it easier to achieve operational excellence on AWS.

Atlassian Confluence lets you create, capture, and collaborate on projects or ideas while creating and sharing knowledge articles with your colleague and organization. Learn how to use an AWS Lambda function to customize Amazon CloudWatch alarm notifications and embed an Atlassian Confluence knowledge article within it. We’ll also explore the option to build a pipeline to carry the metrics notification from source instance to CloudWatch and Amazon SNS.

In this post, delve into the process of detecting tenant activities within microservices spanning multiple AWS accounts. We provide insights into instrumenting AWS Lambda functions to include tenant information in tracing using ADOT and demonstrated how to establish a service map across several AWS accounts using Amazon CloudWatch. By leveraging AWS observability technology, SaaS providers can enhance operational efficiency and redirect their attention towards their desired development goals.

Developers can rely on AWS CloudFormation to update or add new resources to an application, as CloudFormation provides two methods for updating the stack: direct update or change set. Learn how to update the value and add new resources to your running Amazon RDS deployment, and explore architecture diagrams to help you see how the system behaves when you apply the changes via CloudFormation template.

Customers can use Grafana Cloud to connect over 60 of the most popular AWS services. Interacting with those services in Grafana Cloud is easier than ever, providing one portal to set up and manage an entire AWS observability strategy. This post takes a closer look at the changes that will make it easier to manage your AWS environment. Grafana Labs supports users’ infrastructure and applications wherever they are, regardless of data type or source.

Kyndryl Cloud Native Services for AWS (KCNS) is designed to accelerate and automate managed services for workloads leveraging AWS-native services. KCNS provides a web interface, called Control Plane, for users to perform various operations, including CloudOps, SecOps, and FinOps. This post explains how to simply, optimize, and automate cloud operations with KCNS for AWS and is targeted at pre-sales and delivery architects set out to design cloud-native solutions for customers.

Monitoring and managing cloud-based resources is crucial for maintaining performance, troubleshooting issues, and ensuring the health of your infrastructure. Learn about the integration of Amazon CloudWatch with VMware Cloud on AWS with a focus on monitoring the workload of virtual machines. We’ll elaborate on the benefits of integrating CloudWatch with other AWS services as well as third-party services like ServiceNow ITSM tool and IBM Netcool.

Monitoring containerized applications can be challenging due to the isolated environment that containers provide. A comprehensive monitoring strategy is essential, including how to choose tools to collect and analyze resource usage, network traffic, and application logs. Learn how eCloudvalley leverages AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry to help customers centralize their monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch for their Amazon EKS environment.

Gremlin is an AWS Partner that gives users a solution for safely and securely improving the reliability of their technology stack. Teams can use Gremlin to find hidden reliability risks, standardize reliability testing and measurement, and simulate real-world outages with an ever-growing library of tests. Learn how to test and measure the reliability of AWS systems using Gremlin Reliability Management and Amazon CloudWatch.