AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Author: Joe Alioto
Joe is a Worldwide Senior Specialist Solutions Architect for Cloud Operations at AWS, focusing on observability, AI-powered operations, and centralized operations management. With over two decades of operations engineering experience and the past two years dedicated to AI and AIOps, he helps customers build intelligent observability strategies that connect application performance, infrastructure metrics, and database workloads - increasingly using AI agents and automation to reduce mean time to resolution and transform how operations teams work at scale.
AWS Observability ICYMI: Jan-May 2026
Welcome to the first edition of the AWS Observability ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) recap! The first five months of 2026 has been transformational for AWS observability with over 40 launches across Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Managed Grafana, and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. Two major themes defined this period: OpenTelemetry as the […]
Advanced analytics using Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights
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 […]