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Nereida Woo

Author: Nereida Woo

Nereida is a WW Specialist Solutions Architect in Cloud Operations focusing on Centralized Operations Management and Application operations on AWS. When she isn't working, she enjoys traveling to attend music concerts.

Troubleshoot AWS Tagging Compliance with AWS Resource Explorer

With AWS Resource Explorer’s immediate resource discovery launch on October 13, 2025, customers can now discover resources from their very first search in Unified Search in the AWS Management Console or the Resource Explorer console. Operations like troubleshooting and problem resolution, making resource changes, investigating resource dependencies, identifying security risks, and optimizing costs are critical […]

2025 Top 10 Announcements for AWS Cloud Operations

2025 Top 10 Announcements for AWS Cloud Operations

At AWS re:Invent 2025, we’re excited to share latest innovations designed to empower organizations to thrive in the transformative AI era. This year’s top Cloud Operations announcements address the most pressing challenges our customers face today—from gaining comprehensive visibility into generative AI workloads to significantly accelerating incident resolution and efficiently managing the exponential growth of […]

Enforce consistent tagging across IaC deployments with AWS Organizations Tag Policies

Enforce consistent tagging across IaC deployments with AWS Organizations Tag Policies

Organizations manage thousands of AWS resources across multiple accounts and Regions to support their business operations. They want consistent tagging to support essential workflows such as attribute-based-access-controls (ABAC), cost allocation, organizing resources by project/application/owner/environment, and triggering automated processes based on tag criteria. Many customers use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and […]

AWS Resource Explorer launches immediate resource discovery within a Region

AWS Resource Explorer launches immediate resource discovery within a Region

AWS now provides immediate access to resource search capabilities through AWS Resource Explorer so that customers can discover resources across services in their AWS account. Operations like troubleshooting and problem resolution, making resource changes, investigating resource dependencies, identifying security risks and optimizing costs are critical everyday activities for the cloud operations team. With resource search, […]

Key Governance, Risk, and Compliance Sessions at re:Inforce 2025

Key Governance, Risk, and Compliance Sessions at re:Inforce 2025

We are incredibly excited to see you at AWS re:Inforce, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 16-18, 2025. This year’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance track features sessions on automating compliance, enhancing risk visibility, using generative AI for business growth, and maintaining security at scale, including 5 breakout sessions, 8 builder sessions, 7 chalk talks, 2 code […]

How to detect and monitor Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) access with AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch

How to detect and monitor Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) access with AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch

While protection of data is critical, equally important is observing who accesses it.  AWS services allow you to control your data by determining where it’s stored, who has access, and how it’s secured. AWS CloudTrail provides an effective way to track data access activities.  You can detect access attempts, and identify potential unauthorized attempts. CloudTrail, […]

myApplications

Automate creating and onboarding applications with AWS CloudFormation tags and myApplications

Customers operate hundreds of applications and often those applications consist of hundreds to thousands of resources. This can get complex and overwhelming having to monitor and manage individual resources and identifying what resources are tied to an application while making sure their applications are available, secure, cost-optimized, and performing optimally. The underlying concept of applications […]

Leveraging existing tagging strategies for Application Operations

Leveraging existing tagging strategies for Application Operations

Customers often spend time finding and managing individual resources within their applications. They need to find various applications, manage and perform application tasks, and monitor resources during different stages of the application lifecycle. Customers usually have hundreds to thousands of resources within even a single AWS account. This requires navigating across multiple AWS services pages […]