Category: Management Tools

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.

Optimizing environments for cost, however, is often an activity that happens only in response to unexpected growth of charges in the bill. nOps nSwitch makes this process easy, allowing both engineering and finance teams to explore, identify, and automate optimization opportunities. Learn how nOps’ integration with Amazon EventBridge helps customers to pause, reconfigure, and right-size a broad variety of popular AWS services so they can tune for the most optimal cost while maintaining reliability and security.

Infosys has crafted an automated self-service landing zone solution for AWS which employs AWS Control Tower to generate the customer’s organization unit structure and set up individual accounts. It uses the infrastructure as code tools from Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and Ansible for service configuration. The landing zone provides a pre-configured and secure environment, functioning as a springboard for organizations to manage their AWS resources effectively.

Customers want an easier way to gather operational insights across their environments, including monitoring who has made changes to resources and when. Tata Consulting Services (TCS) developed a cloud management and orchestration platform called TCS Cloud Exponence that provides resource maintenance, patching, perimeter monitoring, vulnerability protection, observability, and compliance auditing. TCS leveraged AWS CloudTrail Lake to support the monitoring and compliance auditing capabilities.

Many enterprises want to streamline identity management by introducing a single identity provider for their multi-cloud approach. In this post, we’ll cover the integration of single sign-on with Azure Active Directory in the context of AWS Control Tower. Learn how Devoteam A Cloud recently led a migration project where it presented a client with two options for integrating SAML 2.0 federation into their AWS Organization using Azure AD.

Many organizations decide to implement AWS Control Tower because it provides an easy way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment called a landing zone. Mphasis Stelligent offers an AWS Control Tower-based landing zone quick start with modules for automating account access, observability, security suite enablement, deploying industry-specific guardrails, and multi-account networking. Once implemented, companies can provision secure accounts fully baselined for utilization in less than an hour.

Prometheus is an open-source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit which many companies and organizations have adopted. OpsWatch from Arvato Systems helps to bridge the gap between Prometheus native and non-native Amazon CloudWatch metrics and Amazon GuardDuty events. OpsWatch does this by consuming metrics, transforming and enriching them. They can be displayed in dashboards and/or trigger alerts. This gives the operator a single pane of Prometheus with powerful monitoring capabilities.