AWS Cloud Operations Blog

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Using Terraform with Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

In this post, we explore how you can incorporate HashiCorp Terraform to manage your Amazon Web Services (AWS) application infrastructure after using AWS Control Tower with Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to manage your AWS ecosystem. The LZA deploys a cloud foundation that is architected to align with AWS best practices and multiple global […]

Manage AMI updates for AWS Auto Scaling groups with AWS Lambda and AWS Systems Manager

Keeping Amazon Machine Image (AMI) up-to-date with the latest patches and updates is a critical task for organizations using AWS Auto Scaling group . However, manually patching AMIs and updating Auto Scaling groups can be time-consuming for your teams and error-prone. This blog post presents a solution to automate the process of updating AMIs for […]

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2024 Cloud Governance and Compliance

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6. At AWS re:Invent, cloud enthusiasts from all over the world will gather together to collaborate and learn from one another! You will have the opportunity to meet with AWS experts, […]

Operations re:Imagined – Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2024

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6. At this conference, you’ll have the opportunity to attend thought-provoking keynotes, dive deep into our services, and meet with fellow cloud enthusiasts! No matter your level of expertise, we’ll have sessions […]

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2024 Monitoring and Observability

Planning to join us in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6 at AWS re:Invent 2024 and looking to learn more about monitoring and observability? If you are, this blog highlights Cloud Operations sessions that focus on monitoring and observability at re:Invent 2024! Monitoring and Observability allows you to understand the health of your applications and […]

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 […]

Analyzing your custom metrics spend contributors in Amazon CloudWatch

With an ever-growing volume of custom metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, customers often find it difficult to understand and manage their spend on this service. One of the most common questions they have is how to identify which metrics contribute the most to their spend in CloudWatch. This blog post introduces a solution that lets you […]

Serverless Governance of Software Deployed with AWS Service Catalog

AWS Service Catalog (Service Catalog) is a powerful tool that empowers organizations to manage and govern approved services and resources. It significantly benefits platform engineering by standardizing environments, accelerating service delivery, and enhancing security. With its automated provisioning and resource management, Service Catalog supports infrastructure as code, enabling scalable, reliable deployments. Platform engineering teams are […]

Assess Resilience at Scale by using Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Resilience Hub

AWS Resilience Hub helps you to manage and improve the resilience posture of your applications on AWS. It enables you to define your resilience goals, assess your resilience posture against those goals, and implement recommendations for improvement based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This benefits individual teams that want to assess their applications. However, for […]

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How to perform Failover and Failback using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) between VMware and AWS environments

Enterprises face a variety of threats such as natural disasters, cyber-attacks and technology failures that could severely disrupt operations. A comprehensive disaster recovery plan is crucial to quickly respond and recover from these events. In this blog post, we’ll show how to plan and implement a comprehensive disaster recovery solution between your VMware on-premises environment […]