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Omur Kirikci

Author: Omur Kirikci

Omur Kirikci is a Principal Product Manager for Amazon CloudWatch based in Seattle, US. He is passionate about creating new products and looks for ideas from everywhere in order to deliver solutions with the right quality in a timely fashion. Before he joined AWS, Omur spent more than 15 years in product management, program management, go-to-market strategy, and product development. Outside of work, he enjoys being outdoors and hiking, spending time with his family, tasting different cuisines, and watching soccer with friends.

How CloudWatch cross-account observability helps JPMorgan Chase improve Federated Data Lake Monitoring

AWS best practices guide customers to deploy their applications across multiple AWS accounts to establish security and billing boundary between teams and to reduce the impact of operational events. As enterprises grow and scale with tons of resources, customers often need a unified observability experience to help them search, visualize, and analyze their cross-account telemetry […]

How Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights enables Ring to monitor large cloud fleets easily

Amazon CloudWatch has recently launched Metrics Insights – a fast, flexible, SQL-based query engine that enables you to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real-time. With Metrics Insights, you can easily query and analyze your metrics to gain better visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure and large-scale applications. Metrics […]

Identify operational issues quickly by using Grafana and Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights (Preview)

Amazon CloudWatch has recently launched Metrics Insights (Preview) – a fast, flexible, SQL-based query engine that enables you to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real-time. With Metrics Insights, you can easily query and analyze your metrics to gain better visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure and large scale […]

Monitoring Service Level Objectives (“SLOs”) Made Easier with Nobl9 and Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights

The updated version (June 2022) that follows is based on working backward from a customer need to understand Service Level Objectives (“SLOs”) and the benefits from monitoring SLOs. This post was originally written in Nov 2021 by Natalia Sikora-Zimna, Product Owner at Nobl9. A service can be provided by infrastructure, a platform, software, or people. […]