Category: Centralized operations management

Today, we are excited to announce a significant enhancement to AWS Resource Explorer that delivers a unified view of centralized resource insights and properties from AWS services. With the enhanced Resource Explorer experience, relevant data and insights from multiple AWS services is centralized for supported resource types. Customers use keyword-based search to return a list […]

Keeping your AWS infrastructure up-to-date and secure is a critical part of maintaining a robust and reliable cloud environment. AWS Systems Manager’s patching capabilities are a powerful tool in this effort, allowing you to automatically apply the latest security updates and bug fixes to your managed nodes, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, on-premises […]

As organizations increasingly adopt cloud services, they often face the challenge of hosting diverse workloads with varying cost structures and budget constraints. To establish a solid foundation for cost optimization without compromising operational efficiency in your cloud operations, it’s essential to manage your cloud expenses efficiently. This aligns with the AWS Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar, […]

Keeping Amazon Machine Image (AMI) up-to-date with the latest patches and updates is a critical task for organizations using AWS Auto Scaling group . However, manually patching AMIs and updating Auto Scaling groups can be time-consuming for your teams and error-prone. This blog post presents a solution to automate the process of updating AMIs for […]

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6. At this conference, you’ll have the opportunity to attend thought-provoking keynotes, dive deep into our services, and meet with fellow cloud enthusiasts! No matter your level of expertise, we’ll have sessions […]

Customers operate hundreds of applications and often those applications consist of hundreds to thousands of resources. This can get complex and overwhelming having to monitor and manage individual resources and identifying what resources are tied to an application while making sure their applications are available, secure, cost-optimized, and performing optimally. The underlying concept of applications […]

Customers often spend time finding and managing individual resources within their applications. They need to find various applications, manage and perform application tasks, and monitor resources during different stages of the application lifecycle. Customers usually have hundreds to thousands of resources within even a single AWS account. This requires navigating across multiple AWS services pages […]

This post is co-written with Nicolas Trettel, Cloud Engineering Senior Advisor at Cigna. Monitoring applications and alerting on issues is crucial for building resilient systems. Amazon CloudWatch is a service that monitors applications, responds to performance changes, optimizes resource use, and provides insights into operational health. By collecting data across AWS resources, CloudWatch gives visibility […]

Generative AI can streamline the Correction of Errors process, saving time and resources. By using generative AI to leverage large language models, combined with the Correction of Errors process, businesses can expedite the identification and documentation of the cause of errors, while saving time and resources. Purpose and set-up The purpose of this blog is […]

Has the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) running on your critical servers on-premises or on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) lost healthy connection to AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for some reason and you wanted to be proactively notified when this happens? Do you wish to improve observability of your SSM Agent status and […]