Integration & Automation

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.

Simulate recovering an Amazon Aurora global database after a disaster. Walk through three failover scenarios, observe their effect on Terraform state, and learn how to maintain the global database topology and configuration using Terraform.

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.

Learn how to use AWS CDK to deploy bastion hosts into private subnets of a VPC.

Learn how to automate the deployment and management of an Amazon Aurora global database—across multiple AWS Regions—with Terraform. This architecture can provide disaster recovery from Region-wide outages with low recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO).

Learn how to create a service virtualization using AWS CloudFormation and Amazon API Gateway to test an application that uses an external API that’s not always available.

Highlights from the five most viewed posts published on the AWS Infrastructure & Automation Blog in 2021.

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.

Use a configuration file in AWS Control Tower to deploy a single Quick Start to thousands of AWS accounts.