Category: Enterprise governance and control

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 […]

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. […]

Learn with Shree on how to offload license management activities using Delegated Administrator feature of AWS License Manager.

[Update on Sep/21/2024] AWS Config recorder has recently provided support for periodic recording, this captures the latest configuration changes of your resources once every 24 hours, reducing the number of changes delivered. This blog has been updated to incorporate that. [Update on May/14/2024] Minor update to the services that depend on AWS Config recorder and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Today, you can centrally close member accounts in your AWS organization enabling easier and more efficient account management of your AWS environment. This means you’re able to close member accounts from your organization’s management account without needing to login to each member account individually with root credentials. You can also ensure that only authorized IAM […]

In today’s complex computing environment, organizations continually have new requirements for maintaining data. In essence, data residency is established on multiple levels, and AWS offers different features and services to support it. This post focuses on utilizing the AWS Control Tower governance model to support data residency requirements in regions where AWS Control Tower isn’t […]

Large-scale distributed software systems in the cloud are composed of several individual sub-systems—such as CDNs, load balancers, web servers, application servers and databases—as well as their interactions. The interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen events (for example, a network failure, instance failure, etc.). These events can lead to system-wide failures of your critical […]

I introduced the fundamental concepts of service control policies (SCPs) in the previous post. We discussed what SCPs are, why you should create SCPs, the two approaches you can use to implement SCPs, and how to iterate and improve SCPs as your workload and business needs change. In this post, I will discuss how you […]