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Neel Sendas

Author: Neel Sendas

Neel Sendas is a Senior Technical Account Manager at Amazon Web Services. Neel works with enterprise customers to design, deploy, and scale cloud applications to achieve their business goals. He is also a machine learning enthusiast. When he is not helping customers, he dabbles in golf and salsa dance.

Manage Amazon CloudWatch agent deployment at scale using the AWS Cloud Development Kit to optimize AWS usage

In this blog post, we will show you how you can programmatically deploy the Amazon CloudWatch agent using the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) as you create your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. You can use the command line, AWS Systems Manager, and AWS CloudFormation to install the CloudWatch agent on your EC2 instances. We also recently announced that the […]

How BBVA automated responses through event management at scale

In this blog post, we describe how BBVA USA, a financial institution that ranks among the top 25 largest commercial banks, used AWS services to implement event management at scale and centralize its event response. Generally speaking, security compliance in a monolithic environment is easier to monitor and enforce when a small number of hands […]

How BBVA USA delivered security and governance at scale using management tools

As BBVA USA began its digital transformation journey, the security operations team had to improve its processes around provisioning and baselining of AWS accounts. The demand for new AWS accounts continued to increase from multiple application teams within the bank. In an effort to standardize new accounts within the enterprise, BBVA USA built an automated […]