Category: Management & Governance

If you’re attending AWS re:Invent with the goal of learning how to prevent costly downtime for your organization, you can look forward to more than 150 breakout sessions, workshops, chalk talks, builders’ sessions, and code talks that will help you improve the resilience of your critical applications. Find the complete list in the re:Invent 2025 […]

In today’s fast-paced IT environment, monitoring and visualizing patching compliance across your infrastructure is crucial. Traditionally, creating comprehensive patching dashboards in Amazon QuickSight has been a manual, time-intensive process requiring multiple steps for each visual component. Amazon Q in QuickSight is an AI-powered assistant that enhances data analysis and visualization capabilities within Amazon QuickSight. This […]

Introduction Salesforce Commerce Cloud empowers thousands of retailers worldwide to create seamless shopping experiences. Behind these experiences lies a complex infrastructure that demands reliable monitoring at scale. As the platform evolved from static, first-party instances to dynamic cloud-based environments, the monitoring needs outgrew the self-managed Prometheus solution. This post details Salesforce’s Commerce Cloud journey from […]

In today’s cloud-driven landscape, development sandboxes have become enablers of innovation, offering safe environments for experimentation and testing. However, as organizations scale, these sandbox environments often grow increasingly complex and difficult to manage. Unchecked, this complexity can lead to escalating costs from abandoned resources, increased security risks, and diminished productivity—undermining the very benefits sandboxes are […]

Many customers today rely on AWS Config for recording configuration, tracking configuration history, and evaluating compliance of their AWS resources such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets, and even Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters. This provides them with a comprehensive view of their AWS infrastructure configuration state […]

Today, we’re excited to announce new enhanced features in Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals that simplifies how you monitor large-scale distributed applications. Improvements to CloudWatch Application Signals application map automatically discovers and organizes services into groups based on their relationships, with support for custom grouping that aligns with your business perspective. You can now view the […]

With organizations increasingly recognizing governance as a strategic enabler rather than a compliance burden, this year’s Cloud Governance under AWS Cloud Ops track delivers cutting-edge sessions that bridge the gap between operational excellence and business innovation. The governance landscape is evolving rapidly, and this year’s sessions are organized around four critical themes that reflect the […]

Managing metrics collection at scale in complex cloud environments presents significant challenges for organizations, particularly when it comes to controlling costs and maintaining operational efficiency. As the volume of metrics grows exponentially with the expansion of container deployments and other cloud-native workloads, customers often struggle to balance comprehensive monitoring with resource optimization. This can lead […]

AWS Organizations enables customers to centrally manage their AWS accounts. Since many customers prefer to automate the account creation process, they can leverage CreateAccount API, thereby creating an account vending pipeline. This pipeline standardizes the deployment of policies, roles, and resources across new accounts while managing the complete lifecycle through eventual account closure. Through this […]

Effective log management and analysis are critical for maintaining robust, secure, and high-performing systems. Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights has long been a powerful tool for searching, filtering, and analyzing log data across multiple log groups. The addition of OpenSearch Piped Processing Language (PPL) and OpenSearch SQL language query support offers greater flexibility and familiarity in […]