AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
Category: Enterprise governance and control
Automate insights for your EC2 fleets across AWS accounts and regions
Introduction Gaining insights and managing large Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) fleet that is spread across multiple accounts and regions can be a challenging task. It’s crucial to have a quick and efficient method to identify which instances are managed by AWS Systems Manager (SSM) and gather detailed information about the instances that are […]
Provision sandbox accounts with budget limits to reduce costs using AWS Control Tower
Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers struggle to keep cloud costs under control while allowing employees to innovate and develop their AWS skills. We talk to technology leaders every day who rank controlling cloud spend among their top concerns. Those same leaders don’t want to stifle innovation or restrict employee’s ability to learn AWS. Using […]
Import existing AWS Control Tower accounts to Account Factory for Terraform
AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) allows customers to provision and customize their account in AWS Control Tower using Terraform. AFT can also import existing AWS Control Tower managed accounts into AFT management, allowing you to manage the global and account-specific customization at scale using Terraform. We hear from customers that they want […]
Use AWS Systems Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) operations management
A hybrid cloud strategy creates management and governance challenges for our customers. These challenges include maintaining consistent cloud security and compliance policies across hybrid VMC and cloud environments, providing a single pane of glass for visualizing and acting on operational data, and providing deployment automation and control of cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud environments. VMware […]
Learn how the Flexibility of AWS Opens New Doors for Business Continuity
A guide for IT practitioners The “criticality” of technology that impacts our day to day lives is more pertinent and broader reaching than ever before. Nowadays, we’ve become accustomed to reliability and always on systems and can see the impact on our lives when things go wrong. Therefore, to meet customer expectations in the face […]
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. […]
License management using Delegated Administrator feature of AWS License Manager
Learn with Shree on how to offload license management activities using Delegated Administrator feature of AWS License Manager.
Customize AWS Config resource tracking in AWS Control Tower environment
[Update on July/26/2023] AWS Config recorder has recently provided support for excluding resource types from configuration change tracking, prior to this change all resource types needed to be explicitly listed. This blog has been updated to incorporate that change and make it easier to operationally manage. Some of our largest customers use AWS Control Tower […]
Resizing volumes and instances using ServiceNow and AWS
The AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow enables ServiceNow end users to provision, manage, and operate AWS resources natively through ServiceNow. This lets our customers connect a technical operation with a business workflow, perhaps requiring approvals from management or other teams. The key in all of this is empowering and enabling end-users, thereby removing manual […]
Integrating existing AWS CloudTrail configurations when launching AWS Control Tower
The customers that we work with often use multiple AWS accounts to meet their business needs. These multi-account environments are built based on the guidelines that AWS published. Customers have created custom mechanisms using AWS Organizations, AWS CloudTrail, and other AWS services to implement the guidelines. AWS Created the AWS Control Tower service as a […]