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Category: Management & Governance

Best practices: Implementing observability with AWS

Best practices: Implementing observability with AWS

As customers deploy cloud-based solutions, they need to be able to ensure that systems are running smoothly, and that they can quickly remediate issues when they arise. Deploying observability at scale can be challenging for customers, especially when it involves tens and hundreds of services across their enterprise. Customers want best practice recommendations, guidance in […]

Monitor your Databricks Clusters with AWS managed open-source Services

Organizations rely heavily on cloud-based data processing and analytics platforms in today’s data-driven world to unlock valuable insights and make informed decisions. Databricks, a unified analytics platform, has emerged as a popular choice due to its seamless integration with Apache Spark, and its ability to efficiently handle large-scale data processing tasks. Many customers have implemented […]

Getting Started with CloudWatch agent and collectd

Observability helps you understand the health, usage, performance, and customer experience for your workloads. Observability can support many use cases, from detecting incidents and supporting incident resolution, to understanding the impact of new features on your users and workflow. Establishing the right solution depends on being able to gather the right data for your situation. […]

Evaluate custom configurations using AWS Config Custom Policy rules and the open source sample repository

Does your organization have custom configuration requirements for your resources? Do you find it challenging to compare actual resource configuration settings against your configuration requirements? Today, you can leverage a new public repository of sample AWS Config custom rules using AWS CloudFormation Guard to help you address these challenges. AWS Config allows you to evaluate actual […]

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 […]

Manage continuous compliance by using AWS Config Configuration Recorder resource type

AWS Config recently added support for configuration recorder as a resource type. The AWS::Config::ConfigurationRecorder resource is a configuration item (CI) for configuration recorder that tracks changes to the state of AWS Config configuration recorder (configuration recorder). You can use this CI to check if the state of the configuration recorder has changed (drifted), from its […]

Optimizing alarm lifecycle with Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights alarms

Optimizing alarm lifecycle with Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights alarms

Do you have entire fleets of dynamically changing resources that you are struggling to easily monitor and set alarm on? Do you have a ton of dangling alarms that you are paying for and that is cluttering your view? Are you looking for a simplified way to create alarms that automatically adjusts to resources that […]

Automate migrated servers to automatically join an Active Directory domain using AWS Application Migration service and AWS Systems Manager

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) simplifies and expedites your migration to AWS by automatically converting your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. The post-launch actions feature in MGN allow you to control and automate actions performed after your servers have been launched in AWS. You can use predefined […]

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 […]

Monitor hybrid and multicloud environments using AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CloudWatch

As customers accelerate their migrations to the cloud and transform their businesses, some find themselves in situations where they have to manage IT operations in a hybrid or multicloud environment. These customers are faced with additional complexity when it comes to operating their applications and infrastructure. They often must use solutions from multiple providers to […]