Category: AWS CloudFormation

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 […]

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 […]

This blog post was written by Kanishk Mahajan, ISV Solutions Architecture Lead at AWS and guest author Maya Neelakandhan, Head of Customer Success at CloudKnox. Introduction Permissions management in AWS empowers security and cloud infrastructure teams to protect your cloud resources from misuse of identity permissions. Cloud security requires continuous enforcement of least-privilege policies across […]

Trend Micro Deep Security, available in AWS Marketplace, is a host-based security product. It provides anti-malware, host firewall, intrusion prevention, file integrity monitoring, and log inspection modules for both Windows and Linux Amazon EC2 instances. Trend Micro Cloud Network Protection, powered by TippingPoint is also available in AWS Marketplace. It enables you to extend your […]

As of December 2022, to integrate Datadog monitoring into your multi-account environment, we now recommend using Datadog’s Account Factory customization. To learn how to use Account Factory customization to deploy Datadog’s AWS Integration into new accounts, visit the most recent blog post. Operational intelligence in a cloud environment helps organizations gain in-depth visibility into resources […]

AWS Control Tower enables you to create new AWS accounts in your AWS Organization with AWS-recommended best practices and guardrails in place. Our customers and partners often ask for ways to automate the execution of some customizations specific to their organization on the creation of a new AWS account. This is especially true for customers […]

Managing and operating large-scale applications and workload in the cloud requires central governance, control, and visibility. Today, AWS Control Tower customers are configuring a secure baseline and using guardrails to provide ongoing governance for their multi-account environment. Customers also want to extend AWS Control Tower guardrail notification to their existing incident management and compliance alerting […]

AWS services support customer needs across various business functions and initiatives. To support this growth, customers are using AWS Control Tower to set up their multi-account environments in a fast and secure way. Customers must also build a framework that enables the network topology to be scalable as they grow their infrastructure footprint on the […]

When running large scale applications and workloads in the cloud, customers need a streamlined visibility across their environment especially when these workloads are distributed among separate AWS accounts for regulatory, compliance, security, or cost tracking reasons. AWS Control Tower simplifies and automates the account provisioning while maintaining a consistent baseline configuration with prescriptive blueprints and […]

AWS Marketplace is a digital catalog that enables qualified Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to market software solutions and makes it easy for AWS customers to find, buy, and deploy software on AWS. In this post, I will explain a use case where CloudFormation template is a better fit than a Single-AMI solution, and then I […]