Category: Management Tools

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 […]

The SDKs and Daemon for AWS X-Ray will enter maintenance mode on February 25, 2026 and reach end-of-support on February 25, 2027. Guidance for migrating to OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation solutions allows you to continue producing traces for your applications within AWS. Existing applications that use X-Ray SDKs and Daemon for AWS X-Ray will continue to function […]

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 […]

Many customers today rely on AWS Config for recording configuration, tracking configuration history, and evaluating compliance of their AWS resources such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets, and even Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters. This provides them with a comprehensive view of their AWS infrastructure configuration state […]

Gain deeper visibility into your Amazon CloudWatch Logs usage patterns, costs, and potential issues with an improved automatic dashboard that helps you optimize and manage your CloudWatch Logs usage. In this post, we’ll explore why understanding usage is important, where to find the dashboard, and what you’ll discover. We’ll also share other tools to help […]

Today, we’re excited to announce new enhanced features in Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals that simplifies how you monitor large-scale distributed applications. Improvements to CloudWatch Application Signals application map automatically discovers and organizes services into groups based on their relationships, with support for custom grouping that aligns with your business perspective. You can now view the […]