AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: Learning Levels
AWS Organizations, moving an organization member account to another organization: Part 2
In part one, we identified different features of Organizations requiring guidance and consideration when you move an account from one organization in Organizations to another. We focused on Organizations Polices, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) shares, and AWS global condition context keys. In this post, part two of a three-part series, we identify behaviors […]
Using Open Source Grafana Operator on your Kubernetes cluster to manage Amazon Managed Grafana
Introduction Kubernetes APIs are robust and its control loop mechanism allows us to control the state of resources that are even outside of Kubernetes environments. Customers have shifted their focus towards workload gravity and rely on Kubernetes-native controllers to deploy and manage the lifecycle of external resources such as Cloud resources. We have seen customers […]
View multi-account Service Quotas Increase using AWS CloudTrail Lake
In this post, you’ll learn how to find all of the Service Quotas that were modified across all accounts and regions using AWS CloudTrail Lake. The solution uses AWS CloudTrail’s new feature CloudTrail Lake to analyze CloudTrail events. This solution can help customers be proactive in scenarios including: Workload promotion from lower environment to Production […]
Visualizing Resources with Workload Discovery on AWS
Operations Teams (Ops Teams) across enterprises typically rely on documented architecture diagrams to understand the dependencies of various workloads deployed on AWS. As enterprises continue to deploy large-scale multi-tiered workloads, it can become challenging for Ops Teams to track the ever changing relationships between the deployed resources, often meaning that documentation can’t keep up with […]
Build a resilience reporting dashboard with AWS Resilience Hub and Amazon QuickSight
You might have heard the phrase “10,000 foot view” at some point during your career. This typically refers to having a broad, high-level understanding of a system or organization’s technology infrastructure and how all its components fit together. It is a way of looking at the big picture without getting bogged down in the details. […]
Enhance Amazon EKS Containerized Application Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub
Building and managing resilient, micro-service based Containerized applications in a distributed environment is hard; maintaining and operating them is even harder. Even though containerized applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) take advantage of the performance, scale, reliability, and availability of AWS infrastructure which, we need to understand that failures will occur and […]
Simplified multi-account governance with AWS Organizations all features
AWS Organizations simplifies multi-account governance for customers with tools to centrally manage their AWS accounts and offers two feature modes all features and consolidated billing. With all features enabled, the default and preferred approach, customers can centrally manage other AWS services that are integrated with AWS Organizations and apply organization-wide controls with the management policies. […]
Strategies to Distribute Visibility in Multi-account Environments
Speed matters in business, and AWS customers want to move quickly and securely when they choose to innovate and develop on our platform. As customers scale their AWS footprint, a majority of them adopt a multi-account strategy to separate their workloads and better enable their teams to build rapidly. The AWS multi-account strategy provides guidance […]
How Singlife used AWS Professional Services, AWS Managed Services and AWS Migration Programs to build and accomplish their Cloud Migration Plan
Singlife with Aviva or Singlife, is a Singaporean insurance company that announced in December 2022 they are going all in on AWS and will migrate their entire IT infrastructure to the cloud by end 2023. The depth and breadth of AWS services will enable Singlife to improve speed-to-market of new products and enhance the company’s […]
Audit Manager support for HIPAA Omnibus
The security of Protected Health Information (PHI) is at the center of the data universe for healthcare organizations. AWS Audit Manager helps healthcare companies manage their regulatory requirements with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) healthcare standard, gathering evidence using automation to support their compliance and audit needs. The current HIPAA pre-built framework […]