Category: Management & Governance

In the first two parts of our series, we explored how to scale AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) across AWS Organizations. Part one focused on implementing FIS in a single AWS account environment, introducing the concept of standardized IAM roles and Service Control Policies (SCPs) as guardrails for controlled chaos engineering experiments, particularly in centralized […]

Welcome to part two of our series where we focus on scaling AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) within your organization. In part one, we learned how customers can enable individual accounts within organizations by introducing a Service Control Policies (SCPs) rule to run network experiments when operating with a centralized networking infrastructure. In this blog, […]

AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) empowers you to adopt chaos engineering at scale within your AWS environment. Chaos engineering injects real-world, controlled failures into a system to verify resilience and reliability, ultimately improving the customer experience. This proactive, resilience-focused approach increases your confidence in a system’s ability to respond to adverse conditions in production. You […]

In this post, we will highlight how AWS Config can be used to help organizations implement capabilities related to management and governance, security, and more. Have you ever wondered how to maintain a centralized inventory of resources across your AWS accounts? Do you need to quickly identify the unencrypted resources in your AWS environment? Do you […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) now offers AWS managed notifications, a centralized way to manage and view default notifications in AWS User Notifications. Currently, only AWS Health events are available as managed notifications. With this new feature, you can stay informed about critical updates related to operations and account health. AWS User notifications channels include the […]

This post is co-authored by Grzegorz Kaczor and Daniel Steenbock from Hapag-Lloyd AG and Michael Graumann and Daniel Moser from AWS. Introduction In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, efficient incident management is crucial for maintaining high-quality customer experiences. In our previous article we discussed how the Web and Mobile department at Hapag-Lloyd established observability for serverless […]

Overview A key benefit of using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud is the ability to pay only for the services you consume. This granular control and elastic model enables you to achieve substantial savings compared to on-premise infrastructure. The practice of ensuring you are getting the most value for your investment, and a foundational pillar […]

Overview The Internet Monitor feature of Amazon CloudWatch Network Monitoring now includes enhanced traffic optimization recommendation guidance that you can use to explore how to help optimize your application’s latency by using different AWS Regions or Local Zones, or by using Amazon CloudFront. You can also learn how to reduce latency by routing specific IP […]

System Administrators face a never-ending list of tasks in IT organizations, with one of the most critical being the installation and updating of software packages. This process is essential for maintaining a secure posture across systems. However, as the number of servers grows, manually managing updates becomes increasingly time-consuming and inefficient. The challenge we’re addressing […]

At AWS, we are committed to running our business in the most environmentally friendly way possible. We also work to enable our customers to use the benefits of the cloud to better monitor and optimize their IT infrastructure. As reported in The Carbon Reduction Opportunity of Moving to Amazon Web Services, our infrastructure is 3.6 […]