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Unlock deeper insights and faster investigations with AWS CloudTrail Lake
AWS CloudTrail Lake introduces powerful new features to help you analyze and investigate your AWS activity logs more efficiently. New capabilities include enhanced event filtering, AI-powered natural language querying, AI-powered query result summarization, cross-account sharing of event data stores, and comprehensive dashboard capabilities. These enhancements enable deeper insights and faster investigations while providing greater control over data ingestion costs and analysis, making it easier than ever to monitor and secure your AWS environments.
Enhance your global network performance: A deep dive into Internet Monitor’s new optimization tools
Overview The Internet Monitor feature of Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring now includes enhanced traffic optimization recommendation guidance that you can use to explore how to help optimize your application’s latency by using different AWS Regions or Local Zones, or by using Amazon CloudFront. You can also learn how to reduce latency by routing specific IP […]
Increase SAP workloads scalability and resiliency with AWS native Application Load Balancer
In the evolving landscape of SAP systems, the transition to web-based access via SAP FIORI has necessitated robust load balancing solutions. Traditionally, end-users accessed SAP systems using the SAP GUI installed on their PC/laptop. However, critical transactions are now increasingly processed through web browsers. For scenarios like SAP HR time entry, these transactions might also […]
Manage third party applications in Windows Server nodes using AWS System Manager and Chocolatey
System Administrators face a never-ending list of tasks in IT organizations, with one of the most critical being the installation and updating of software packages. This process is essential for maintaining a secure posture across systems. However, as the number of servers grows, manually managing updates becomes increasingly time-consuming and inefficient. The challenge we’re addressing […]
Assess, Audit, and Evaluate AWS Resources Against AWS Sustainability Best Practices
At AWS, we are committed to running our business in the most environmentally friendly way possible. We also work to enable our customers to use the benefits of the cloud to better monitor and optimize their IT infrastructure. As reported in The Carbon Reduction Opportunity of Moving to Amazon Web Services, our infrastructure is 3.6 […]
Limit interactive session commands by groups of users using AWS Systems Manager
Customers are looking for a way to limit the types of commands that can be run on their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances when using AWS Systems Manager Session Manager interactive sessions. Allowed commands vary by group, meaning you need to allow different sets of commands based on the group of users. For […]
Implementing recommended experiments using AWS Resilience Hub APIs
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to introduce an enhanced integration between AWS Resilience Hub and AWS Fault Injection Service that streamlines the process of creating and running chaos experiments. We’ll focuses on how to leverage this integration through the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), catering to users who prefer command-line tools for automation […]
Automate Systems Manager patching reports via email and Slack notifications in an AWS Organization
An effective patch management is foremost for maintaining system security, reliability, and compliance across your IT infrastructure. AWS Systems Manager (SSM) provides a comprehensive patching solution, enabling you to automate the deployment of operating system updates to your nodes deployed on AWS, on-premises, and multicloud environments. However, as your organization scales, tracking and reporting on […]
Analyzing AWS Control Tower Drift with Amazon Bedrock
Introduction In order to enforce best practices for governance and compliance across AWS accounts in a centralized way, AWS Control Tower is an easy place to start. However, ensuring continuous compliance requires regular drift detection and remediation, which Control Tower facilitates by providing a mechanism to detect drift and publish notifications to Amazon Simple Notification […]
Delegated Administrators Guide to Effective Controls in AWS Organizations
Introduction AWS Organizations provides the capability to centrally manage and govern your AWS environment. As an organization, you can delegate administration of specific AWS services integrated with AWS Organizations to authorized individuals or teams. Implementing effective controls for these delegated administrators is essential to ensuring the security, compliance, and operational efficiency of your AWS environment. […]









