Category: Management & Governance

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 […]

Ensuring the reliability and resilience of applications is crucial for maintaining business continuity, delivering a superior customer experience, and staying compliant with industry regulations. As defined in the AWS Well-Architected Framework Reliability Pillar, testing reliability plays an important role in ensuring reliability. Chaos engineering is a powerful way to not only test how your systems […]

Customers use chat collaboration applications like Microsoft Teams and Slack to collaborate and manage their AWS applications. AWS Chatbot is a ChatOps service that enables customers to monitor, troubleshoot issues, and manage AWS applications from chat channels. AWS Chatbot provides autonomy and customizability to DevOps teams operating their AWS environments on the go from chat […]

Managing and operating monitoring systems for containerized applications can be a significant operational burden for customers such as metrics collection. As container environments scale, customers have to split metric collection across multiple collectors, right-size the collectors to handle peak loads, and continuously manage, patch, secure, and operationalize these collectors. This overhead can detract from an […]

Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible […]

Ten features in AWS Chatbot to help you understand your application health and resolve issues faster from chat channels.

AWS Service Catalog (Service Catalog) is a powerful tool that empowers organizations to manage and govern approved services and resources. It significantly benefits platform engineering by standardizing environments, accelerating service delivery, and enhancing security. With its automated provisioning and resource management, Service Catalog supports infrastructure as code, enabling scalable, reliable deployments. Platform engineering teams are […]

Customer applications running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) often require handling sensitive data such as personally identifiable information (PII) or protected health information (PHI). As a result, sensitive log data can be intentionally or unintentionally logged as part of an application’s observability data. While comprehensive logging is important for application troubleshooting, monitoring and forensics, any […]

AWS CloudTrail Insights is a powerful feature within AWS CloudTrail that helps organizations identify and respond to unusual operational activity in their AWS accounts. This includes identifying spikes in resource provisioning, bursts of IAM actions, or gaps in periodic maintenance activity. CloudTrail Insights continuously analyzes CloudTrail management events from trails and event data stores, establishing […]

AWS Resilience Hub helps you to manage and improve the resilience posture of your applications on AWS. It enables you to define your resilience goals, assess your resilience posture against those goals, and implement recommendations for improvement based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This benefits individual teams that want to assess their applications. However, for […]