Category: Management Tools

At AWS re:Invent 2025, we’re excited to share latest innovations designed to empower organizations to thrive in the transformative AI era. This year’s top Cloud Operations announcements address the most pressing challenges our customers face today—from gaining comprehensive visibility into generative AI workloads to significantly accelerating incident resolution and efficiently managing the exponential growth of […]

AWS CloudTrail records API calls and events for your AWS account, providing audit trails for governance, compliance, and operational troubleshooting. Customers can also enable data events in CloudTrail to gain deeper visibility into resource-level operations. These include Amazon S3 object-level operations (such as GetObject/PutObject) or AWS Lambda function invocations. Data events help detect unauthorized access, […]

Organizations manage thousands of AWS resources across multiple accounts and Regions to support their business operations. They want consistent tagging to support essential workflows such as attribute-based-access-controls (ABAC), cost allocation, organizing resources by project/application/owner/environment, and triggering automated processes based on tag criteria. Many customers use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and […]

AWS X-Ray is transitioning to OpenTelemetry as its primary instrumentation standard for application tracing. OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation solutions are recommended for producing traces from applications and sending them to AWS X-Ray. X-Ray’s existing console experience and functionality continuous to be fully supported and remains unchanged by this transition. OpenTelemetry is the industry-wide open-source standard for tracing […]

Indeed is the #1 job site¹ in the world. With 615 million Job Seeker Profiles², people in more than 60 countries across 28 languages come to Indeed to search for jobs, post resumes, and research companies. Over 3.3 million employers use Indeed to find and hire new employees. Supporting this massive scale requires resilient, well-architected […]

Introduction Efficient logging is crucial to building effective investigative and response workflows. Logs, metrics and traces offer critical value when investigating application issues, security events and debugging failures. Structured wide-event logs can provide a means to investigate application behaviour without requiring access to data stores. This level of verbosity in application logs increases the likelihood […]

AWS Control Tower is a service that simplifies the setup and governance of a secure, multi-account AWS environment. As part of its security features, AWS Control Tower creates an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic named aws-controltower-SecurityNotifications in each enrolled AWS account to handle security-related notifications. These notification topics are encrypted by default using disk […]

In today’s fast-paced IT environment, monitoring and visualizing patching compliance across your infrastructure is crucial. Traditionally, creating comprehensive patching dashboards in Amazon Quick Sight has been a manual, time-intensive process requiring multiple steps for each visual component. Amazon Quick Suite is an AI-powered assistant that enhances data analysis and visualization capabilities. This blog explores how […]

Introduction Salesforce Commerce Cloud empowers thousands of retailers worldwide to create seamless shopping experiences. Behind these experiences lies a complex infrastructure that demands reliable monitoring at scale. As the platform evolved from static, first-party instances to dynamic cloud-based environments, the monitoring needs outgrew the self-managed Prometheus solution. This post details Salesforce’s Commerce Cloud journey from […]

In today’s cloud-driven landscape, development sandboxes have become enablers of innovation, offering safe environments for experimentation and testing. However, as organizations scale, these sandbox environments often grow increasingly complex and difficult to manage. Unchecked, this complexity can lead to escalating costs from abandoned resources, increased security risks, and diminished productivity—undermining the very benefits sandboxes are […]