AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Author: Khurram Nizami
Khurram Nizami is an Operations Management Consultant at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Khurram is passionate about helping people build innovative solutions using technology. In his free time, Khurram enjoys hiking, nature, DIY projects, and travel.
Use tags to create and maintain Amazon CloudWatch alarms for Amazon EC2 instances (Part 1)
This blog post is the first in a two-part series. I walk you through a solution to automatically create and enforce a standard set of Amazon CloudWatch metric alarms for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances by using Amazon EC2 instance tags. Creating and configuring a standard set of CloudWatch alarms for a large […]
Use tags to create and maintain Amazon CloudWatch alarms for Amazon EC2 instances (Part 2)
This blog post is the second in a two-part series. Part one of this blog post showed how to deploy and configure the CloudWatchAutoAlarms Lambda function to create a default alarm set and custom alarms for your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances using EC2 instance tags. In this post, I show how you […]
Track IBM license usage with AWS License Manager
Introduction In this blog post, I show you how you can track and enforce licensing for your IBM software products running on AWS or on-premises. IBM licenses many of its products using a processor-based licensing approach by Processor Value Units (PVU). IBM defines a processor, for purposes of PVU-based licensing, to be each processor core […]