Category: Management Tools

Having a multi-account strategy is a best practice to achieve higher isolation of resources. It also helps to meet regulatory and compliance needs, track operational costs, and add an extra layer of security. AWS Control Tower uses AWS best practices to establish a well-architected, multi-account baseline and also enables governance across your AWS accounts. Many […]

AWS Marketplace admins are responsible for managing AWS Marketplace approved products using AWS Private Marketplace and distributing entitlement to products using AWS License Manager. The challenge is managing AWS Marketplace products subscriptions and entitlements with minimal operational overhead as the number of participating AWS Organizations child accounts grow. In a multi-account AWS environment, AWS Marketplace […]

During the cloud journey, some of my customers must create identity principals, such as roles or users. Engineers or services use these roles to perform their jobs in the cloud. To support this effort, Sonrai Security has developed an integration with AWS Control Tower. This integration enables you to see all of the security policies […]

AWS Marketplace buyers can now use managed entitlements to share product licenses to all accounts in your organization in AWS Organizations. Managed entitlements for AWS Marketplace help buyers automatically create licenses corresponding to product subscriptions across the AWS Marketplace catalog. This gives buyers the ability to manage and distribute access rights (or entitlements) to those […]

With the launch of Managed entitlements and multiple Private Marketplace catalogs, AWS Marketplace administrators can improve your procurement governance and license tracking. In this blog post, Murphy and I discuss how you can use Private Marketplace and Managed entitlements together to centralize your purchasing and license distribution in AWS Marketplace. Private Marketplace provides granular governance […]

AWS Control Tower enables customers of all sizes to implement a multi-account strategy built on AWS Organizations. One of the key features of AWS Organizations is consolidated billing, which rolls up all of the charges incurred in member accounts to the AWS Organizations management account. There, costs can be viewed and analyzed in AWS Cost […]

Clustered databases provide high availability for the majority of mission-critical workloads in finance, telecom, retail, public sector, defense, and other industries.  In these industries, even a small downtime translates into significant losses. As the industries migrate their IT infrastructures to AWS, one challenge they face is migrating Oracle RAC clustered databases. These databases are today […]

AWS recommends that customers adopt a multi-account strategy as a best practice to achieve higher isolation of resources and help meet security, regulatory, and compliance needs. Customers must address questions around tracking their operational cost, identify security improvements, and ensure reliability and performance efficiency. Full-stack observability offers the troubleshooting tools needed, regardless of where problems […]

Accounts payable (AP) processing can be a time- and resource-intensive undertaking. Automating AP processing and eliminating or reducing the need for human intervention can increase your processing efficiency while reducing the processing cost per invoice. In this blog post, John, Pawan, and I will show you how to automate AP invoice processing in your AWS […]

AWS Control Tower provides a ready-to-use native integration with AWS Single Sign-On (AWS SSO) to manage users, roles, and multi-account access. Some customers’ organizations have more complex SSO requirements, including integrating with external identity providers to handle authentication and authorization. Okta is an enterprise-grade identity management service that is built for the cloud, but is […]