Category: Technical How-to

In this post, Ryan and I show you how to deploy Datadog’s AWS integration for monitoring your accounts with AWS Control Tower using a predefined Datadog AWS Integration blueprint. With Account Factory Customization, you can quickly configure your accounts to meet your business needs.

In this blog post, I will show how data-driven organizations can easily integrate third-party data products procured via AWS Data Exchange into your data mesh using the new AWS Data Exchange for AWS Lake Formation feature.

In this post, Kam, Michelle, and I show you how to deploy the Cribl Stream observability Partner Solution into a new AWS account as part of the provisioning process using Account Factory Customization. Account Factory Customization enables you to create custom accounts natively in AWS Control Tower, define custom resources and configurations, and reduce account maintenance overhead.

In this blog post, Jeff, Mike, and I will show you how to discover and use no-cost open data datasets on AWS Data Exchange. We will also show you how to enrich the open data with a paid dataset and how to import these datasets into Amazon SageMaker and do an analysis against them.

In this post, Mark and I will show you how to use Logz.io to build a centralized observability strategy to enhance visibility into your AWS environment and increase your security posture.

Implement EKS Guardrails with Open Policy Agent and Styra DAS How do AWS users control which people and machines can perform which actions within their custom applications and within the stack of development tools needed to build and run those applications? Take, for instance, Kubernetes: users of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) need comprehensive controls […]

Migrating to the AWS cloud has enabled many organizations to reduce costs, innovate faster, and deliver business results more effectively. As you expand your AWS infrastructure, you require multi-account governance strategies as well as implementation of best practices to your expanded environment. AWS Control Tower implements AWS best practices to establish a well-architected, multi-account baseline […]

Migrating to the cloud has enabled many organizations to reduce costs, innovate faster, and deliver business results more effectively. However, as businesses expand their cloud infrastructure, they must adopt robust monitoring strategies to keep an eye on operations, performance, reliability, security, and costs in their expanded environment. Having a multi-account strategy is a best practice […]

AWS Marketplace gives sellers the option to list to list AMI-based product with AWS CloudFormation templates. Sellers, as Consulting Partners (CP) and Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), use the templates to define a cluster or distributed architecture for the product. Customers then deploy the solution by using CloudFormation templates, saving time and avoiding errors in the process. In this post, I’ll provide you with the CloudFormation template requirements for listing AMI-based products with CloudFormation templates in AWS Marketplace.

In this post, I will define AWS GovCloud (US) and outline the reasons to make your software application available to users in GovCloud Regions through AWS Marketplace. I will provide reference links to the general how-to guides for the supported product types, AMI, and SaaS. I will also show how to make your applications available in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions.