AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Category: Management & Governance

Best practices to optimize costs after mergers and acquisitions with AWS Organizations

Mergers and acquisitions (M&As) offer organizations the opportunity to scale operations, diversify product lines, and capture new markets. However, they come with a set of challenges, such as the nuances of integrating legacy IT systems, complying with stringent regulations, and maintaining business continuity, etc. Eliminating the redundancy of resources and optimizing processes to bring consistency […]

Auditing generative AI workloads with AWS CloudTrail

With the emergence of generative AI being incorporated into every aspect of how we utilize technology, a common question that customers are asking is how to properly audit generative AI services on AWS, such as Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Sagemaker, Amazon Q Developer, and Amazon Q Business. In this post, we will demonstrate common scenarios that […]

Alarm Context Tool Architecture Diagram

Respond to CloudWatch Alarms with Amazon Bedrock Insights

Overview When operating complex, distributed systems in the cloud, quickly identifying the root cause of issues and resolving incidents can be a daunting task. Troubleshooting often involves sifting through metrics, logs, and traces from multiple AWS services, making it challenging to gain a comprehensive understanding of the problem. So how can you streamline this process […]

Simplify compliance management of multicloud or hybrid resources with AWS Config

Simplify compliance management of multicloud or hybrid resources with AWS Config

Organizations of all sizes operate in a compliance landscape that is complex, dynamic, and evolving rapidly, facing internal requirements as well as industry or government regulations. A multicloud strategy creates additional challenges to maintain compliance policies across cloud providers. With AWS, you can implement compliance processes faster and more easily with automation, ready-to-use templates, and […]

Three Easy Steps to Make your Product More Accessible

Three Easy Steps to Make Your Product More Accessible

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD); a day of awareness intended to draw attention to accessibility and inclusion for people with disabilities around the world. It is a perfect time to reflect on the importance of accessibility in the cloud. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), our guiding principle of customer obsession extends to our […]

Top Picks for Governance, Risk, and Compliance Sessions at re:Inforce 2024

Join us in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 10-12, 2024 for AWS re:Inforce, a cloud governance, compliance, and security conference. Attendees can expand their cloud security knowledge through hundreds of technical and non-technical sessions, engage with AWS experts and certified partners in the expo hall, and hear from AWS security leaders during keynotes. Whether you are […]

Troubleshooting AWS Glue ETL Jobs using Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights enhanced queries

Troubleshooting AWS Glue ETL Jobs using Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights enhanced queries

Introduction In the realm of data integration and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, organizations often face challenges in ensuring efficiency and performance of the ETL jobs. Monitoring the efficiency of ETL jobs becomes crucial in maintaining seamless data workflows. This is where Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights comes into play, offering powerful log analytics to unearth […]

Testing and debugging Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics canary locally

Introduction Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics canaries are scripts that monitor your endpoints and APIs by simulating the actions of a user. These canaries run on a schedule, check the availability and latency of your applications, and alert you when there are issues. Canary scripts are written in Node.js and Python, and they run inside an AWS […]

Monitor Python apps with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals (Preview)

Monitor python apps with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals

AWS announced Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals during re:Invent 2023. It is a new feature to monitor and understand the health of Java applications. Today we are excited to announce that Application Signals now supports Python applications. Enabling Application Signals allows you to use AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) to instrument Python applications without code changes. […]

Unlock Faster Releases with AWS AppConfig: The Secret Weapon for Your CI/CD Strategy

Striking a Balance Between Reliability and Agility in Cloud Operations The IT operation team of an enterprise serves as the first line of defense against potential business disruptions. They operate 24/7, acts as a hub, continuously monitor and manage the IT environment. The operation team handles and prioritizes critical IT incidents to minimize downtime and […]