AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Author: Rizwan Mohammed
Rizwan Mohammed is a Senior Technical Account Manager at AWS Enterprise Support specializing in Cloud Operations and Microsoft workloads. He helps enterprise customers design event-driven automation, build resilient architectures, and adopt AI-driven operational practices at scale. He is passionate about building open-source solutions and technical content that help builders automate and scale their cloud operations.
Investigate your AWS account activity in plain language with Amazon Q
AWS CloudTrail now integrates with Amazon Q in the AWS Management Console, letting you investigate your AWS account activity using plain language. CloudTrail records API activity across your AWS account for security auditing, compliance, and operational troubleshooting. Getting insights from this data has traditionally meant writing queries in Amazon Athena or Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, […]
Autonomous Root Cause Analysis for AWS Systems Manager Patch Failures Using AWS DevOps Agent
Introduction When AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager reports failures across hundreds of managed nodes spanning multiple accounts and regions, operations teams face a time-consuming investigation: logging into each account, correlating events, analyzing logs, and determining whether failures share a common root cause. A single patch cycle failure can consume hours of engineering time. In this […]
AWS Systems Manager Run Command now supports interpolating parameters into environment variables
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. […]