AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Today, we’re excited to announce new enhanced features in Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals that simplifies how you monitor large-scale distributed applications. Improvements to CloudWatch Application Signals application map automatically discovers and organizes services into groups based on their relationships, with support for custom grouping that aligns with your business perspective. You can now view the […]

With organizations increasingly recognizing governance as a strategic enabler rather than a compliance burden, this year’s Cloud Governance under AWS Cloud Ops track delivers cutting-edge sessions that bridge the gap between operational excellence and business innovation. The governance landscape is evolving rapidly, and this year’s sessions are organized around four critical themes that reflect the […]

As organizations continue to scale their cloud presence, effective operations become increasingly critical for success. AWS re:Invent 2025’s Cloud Operations track brings together industry experts, AWS leaders, and customers to share insights on modernizing monitoring & observability through This blog post will guide you through the key themes of operations and observability and highlight sessions […]

Reimagine AIOps with Amazon CloudWatch Investigations and Amazon Nova Sonic in Amazon Bedrock to transform how cloud operations teams handle incidents. Traditional monitoring approaches require engineers to navigate multiple complex dashboards, analyze extensive logs, and manually execute remediation steps—a process that becomes particularly challenging during after-hours incidents or when away from workstations. When minutes matter […]

As organizations continue to scale and evolve their cloud environments, effective operations management has become more critical than ever. Operations management under the Cloud Operations track at AWS re:Invent 2025 offers a comprehensive lineup of sessions designed to help you build resilient, secure, and efficient operational practices across your AWS environment. Whether you’re managing complex […]

Managing logs across multiple AWS accounts and regions has always been a complex challenge for organizations. As AWS infrastructure grows to include separate accounts for production, development, and staging environments, along with regions, the complexity of log management increases exponentially. During critical incidents, especially during off-hours, teams spend valuable time, searching through multiple accounts, correlating […]

Managing metrics collection at scale in complex cloud environments presents significant challenges for organizations, particularly when it comes to controlling costs and maintaining operational efficiency. As the volume of metrics grows exponentially with the expansion of container deployments and other cloud-native workloads, customers often struggle to balance comprehensive monitoring with resource optimization. This can lead […]

AWS Organizations enables customers to centrally manage their AWS accounts. Since many customers prefer to automate the account creation process, they can leverage CreateAccount API, thereby creating an account vending pipeline. This pipeline standardizes the deployment of policies, roles, and resources across new accounts while managing the complete lifecycle through eventual account closure. Through this […]

Introduction Today we are introducing an important enhancement to AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Documents environment variable interpolation when processing parameters. This feature, now available in schema version 2.2 with AWS Systems Manager Agent v3.3.2746.0 or later, simplifies document execution by ensuring parameter values are treated as literal strings, eliminating unexpected behavior and streamlining your automation processes. […]

Effective log management and analysis are critical for maintaining robust, secure, and high-performing systems. Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights has long been a powerful tool for searching, filtering, and analyzing log data across multiple log groups. The addition of OpenSearch Piped Processing Language (PPL) and OpenSearch SQL language query support offers greater flexibility and familiarity in […]