Category: Compute

Learn how to reduce log-storage costs by automating retention settings in Amazon CloudWatch. By default, CloudWatch Logs stores log data indefinitely, which is helpful. But as AWS workload logging grows, so do your log-storage costs. To reduce costs, establish a log-retention policy and apply it across all your log groups, ideally automatically.

Learn how to use an Amazon CloudWatch agent to automate the collection of custom metrics for two Amazon EC2 instances. The solution is based on a tagging strategy combined with AWS Systems Manager State Manager to enforce specific CloudWatch agent configurations for EC2 instances that are tagged appropriately.

Automatically tag resources in an AWS account created by AWS Control Tower.

Combine IaC resources and Lambda functions with the AWS CDK framework to initialize Amazon RDS scripts.

In this blog post, we discuss an operation that reduces the risk of downloading new packages from public repositories.

Automatically discover new log groups and add them as triggers to your existing Lambda functions.

Automate and consolidate IAM credential reports for your AWS accounts using a scalable infrastructure-as-code automation.

Learn how to use an AWS Lambda function and custom AWS CloudFormation resources to manage your shared S3 Event Notifications.

Use a distributed Microsoft Active Directory to authenticate workloads on AWS.

Learn how to automate Ansible playbook deployment with Amazon EC2 and GitHub either by using an AWS CloudFormation template or by following a step-by-step setup.