AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Author: Kishore Vinjam
Kishore Vinjam is a partner solutions architect focusing on AWS Service Catalog, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Marketplace. He is passionate about working in cloud technologies, and working with customers and building solutions for them. When not working, he likes to spend time with his family, hike, and play volleyball and ping-pong.
Get visibility into the activity logs for your workforce and customer identities
The customers we work with often use identity services like Okta to authenticate their workforce identity into the AWS environment, and customer identity service to build authentication into their business applications. In addition, we see customers using other partner solutions in security, cost management, cloud operations, and observability categories. We have heard that our customers […]
Integrating existing AWS CloudTrail configurations when launching AWS Control Tower
[Update] AWS Control Tower 3.0 now allows you to either select organization-level CloudTrail trails or opt out of Control Tower-managed trails, eliminating the need for the workaround mentioned in this blog. For additional details, refer to the Release notes. The customers that we work with often use multiple AWS accounts to meet their business needs. […]
Govern your applications centrally using AppRegistry and Application Manager
The customers I work with often handle multiple applications in their cloud environments. In general, an application includes multiple AWS resources deployed via AWS CloudFormation stacks, APIs, or other infrastructure as code tools. My customers often ask me about efficient mechanisms for managing the resources and governing the security policies of their resources in an Application […]
Extend AWS Control Tower governance using AWS Config Conformance Packs
As many customers adopt AWS Control Tower, they have asked Raphael and me how to add additional governance policies such as the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) to their environments on top of the guardrails that AWS Control Tower provides. Customers want to enable these additional policies on the AWS Regions where AWS Control Tower is […]
How to automate the creation of multiple accounts in AWS Control Tower
Last updated 24 Feb 2022 to support submission of 300+ account entries per each deployment. Last updated 17 Nov 2021 to handle the changes to Account Factory inputs parameters with Nested OU support. Last updated 25 JUL 2021 to pass account details from local S3 bucket. Many customers that we work with are creating and […]
Creating event-based notifications and remediation in AWS Service Catalog using AWS Config
AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to quickly let their users deploy approved IT services to organize, govern, and provision cloud resources on AWS. However, users launching multiple instances can cause issues because: Some instances are not always active. The lack of limits on the number of active instances can result in an organization’s costs going […]
Enabling self-service provisioning of AWS resources with AWS Control Tower
Customers provision new accounts in AWS Control Tower whenever they are on-boarding new business units or setting up application workloads. In some cases, organizations also want their cloud users, developers, and data scientists to deploy self-service standardized and secure patterns and architectures with the new account. Here are a few examples: A developer or cloud […]