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Many customers are migrating to AWS to leverage cost reduction, boost staff productivity, improve operational resilience, and increase business agility. When your business decides to migrate to AWS, there are many areas that need careful attention and planning. It’s important to consider these areas across technical, business, and delivery domains. A key area that is […]

Customers often tell us about the challenges they face managing multi-account environments in AWS GovCloud regions. Many of these customers are using AWS Control Tower to simplify their account governance and they’ve asked us to extend the same benefits to AWS GovCloud regions. On October 19, 2022, we announced the general availability of AWS Control […]

Many of our customers use AWS Service Catalog for governance of their infrastructure as code (IaC) templates and self-service provisioning for a variety of use cases, from customizing multi-account environments to launching data science and development workloads. The self-service use case becomes very appealing when customer need to scale across an organization with tens to […]

Mainframes host critical applications consisting of millions of lines of code (LOC) across hundreds of online transactions and batch processes, built over decades in various programming languages such as COBOL, PL/I, Natural, Assembler, Ideal, and others. Companies often don’t have visibility of their entire application portfolio, active and inactive components, baseline inventory that limits the […]

Today, AWS announces new capabilities: Incident Notes and extension of Incident Status Banner within AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager. Incident Manager enables faster resolution of incidents ensuring high application availability. These new capabilities in Incident Manager provide more visibility and collaboration features to our customers to quickly bring the right people together with the right […]

Organizations seeking to deliver meaningful technology services at a higher velocity to their customers have incorporated application performance monitoring (APM) into their DevOps operating models. Software development and IT operations teams that have traditionally worked in their own silos now strive to work in concert to increase organizational agility. The transformation path is unique for […]

Today, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce support for 200M active series per workspace for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that monitors and alarms on operational metrics at scale. It does this without you having to manage the underlying infrastructure required […]

In part 1 of this series we explored an Amazon CloudWatch dashboard which provides a real-time view of some of the typical main contributors to CloudWatch costs. In this second post, we’ll look at how the CloudWatch dashboard widgets were created so that you can learn how to create something similar, or modify the widgets […]

Amazon CloudWatch monitors your AWS resources and the applications you run on AWS in real-time. You can use CloudWatch to collect metrics, logs, traces, set up alarms, create synthetic checks, and more. The information you collect lets you observe, validate, and alert on areas of interest to you. In this two-part post, we’ll explore a […]

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization. You can utilize various CloudWatch capabilities to monitor the health of your application that is available over the internet, or resides within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) […]