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December 24, 2024: This post was republished to update terminology for AWS RAM resource shares and to update links. AWS customers use AWS Organizations as the basis of a multi-account AWS environment as defined by the Organizing Your AWS Environment Using Multiple Accounts AWS Whitepaper. Organizations is an AWS service that enables you to centrally […]

Keeping your AWS infrastructure up-to-date and secure is a critical part of maintaining a robust and reliable cloud environment. AWS Systems Manager’s patching capabilities are a powerful tool in this effort, allowing you to automatically apply the latest security updates and bug fixes to your managed nodes, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, on-premises […]

While protection of data is critical, equally important is observing who accesses it.  AWS services allow you to control your data by determining where it’s stored, who has access, and how it’s secured. AWS CloudTrail provides an effective way to track data access activities.  You can detect access attempts, and identify potential unauthorized attempts. CloudTrail, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In today’s digital landscape, customers have complex and distributed workloads running on AWS, involving a large number of AWS resources across multiple services. Tackling security risks across numerous resources can seem daunting, but with the right approach following best practices, can be addressed in a timely manner. AWS offers tools and services designed to help […]