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Since its launch in 2009, Amazon CloudWatch has become the cloud-native choice for a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, site reliability engineers (SREs), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view […]

AWS Config enables you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. AWS Config rules are evaluated when changes are made in the AWS environment. By analyzing changes as they occur, you can catch compliance violations quickly and minimize the exposure to your organization. When you apply a remediation action to an […]

In this blog post, I share my observations as an AMS Solutions Architect on how achieving operational excellence can help organizations realize their cloud business objectives while migrating to AWS. I dive deep into the five design principles that AWS Managed Services (AMS) uses to achieve operational excellence. Amazon is guided by four principles: customer […]

With the increasing adoption of the public cloud, customers must minimize the attack surface of their infrastructure. When it comes to optimizing the response time of read-intensive applications, data caching is one of the first steps to consider. Amazon ElastiCache for Redis is versatile in-memory storage that offers highly available, highly scalable, and extremely fast […]

The AWS Well-Architected Framework describes key concepts and architectural best practices that help cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads in the cloud. An AWS Well-Architected Review includes questions around the AWS Well-Architected Framework that can help application owners ensure that their workloads are following best practices. The […]

The ability to present a single pane of glass simplifies the process of tracking and controlling IT systems. Enterprises that run workloads on AWS use AWS Systems Manager because of its security, ease of management, and centralized reporting. When an agent loses connection to the management platform, you can lose visibility into system behavior and […]

Amazon DevOps Guru is a machine learning (ML) powered service that helps developers and operators automatically detect anomalies and improve application availability. DevOps Guru utilizes machine learning models informed by years of Amazon.com and AWS operational excellence in order to identify anomalous application behavior (e.g., increased latency, error rates, resource constraints) and surface critical issues that […]

When you’re architecting for the cloud, you need to keep API throttling in mind, particularly the types of calls and the frequency with which they are called. When the allotted rate limit for an API call is exceeded, you’ll receive an error response and the call will be throttled. Excessive API throttling can result in […]

AWS Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations. You can use the service to automate the evaluation and remediation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. You also can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources and dive into the history of a resource configuration. The basis of a well-architected multi-account AWS […]

Enterprise customers often ask how they can minimize risk when they’re developing and testing a landing zone configuration. They also want to know how they can promote code between multiple landing zones. ­AWS Control Tower provides the easiest way to set up and govern a secure, multi-account AWS environment, called a landing zone. Customers who […]