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Category: Management Tools

Sign-in to AWS Console Mobile Application with an AWS Access Portal or third-party IdP URL

AWS customers rely on the AWS Console Mobile Application to monitor, manage, and receive notifications to stay informed about their AWS resources while away from their desktop devices. Customers who use Single-Sign-On (SSO) can face a unique set of challenges while signing into the AWS Console Mobile Application. While SSO can offer enhanced security and […]

Enhanced dashboard, latency suggestions in Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor provides near-continuous internet measurements for your internet traffic, including availability and performance metrics, tailored to your specific workload footprint on AWS. With Internet Monitor, you can get insights into average internet performance metrics over time, as well as get alerts for issues (health events). You’re notified about events that impact your end […]

Bootstrap your chaos engineering journey with AWS Fault Injection Service Scenarios Library

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 […]

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Managing access to AWS accounts from Microsoft Teams and Slack at scale using AWS Organizations and AWS Chatbot

Customers use chat collaboration applications like Microsoft Teams 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 collaboration […]

Accelerating migrations and IT Tasks for DKB using AWS Systems Manager

Accelerating migrations and IT Tasks for DKB using AWS Systems Manager

Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB), one of Germany’s largest direct banks with over five million customers. In 2023, DKB migrated their back-office IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This Included their diverse infrastructure, backup, networking, and both Windows and Linux servers, while managing risks like downtime, data integrity, and security vulnerabilities. Customers in regulated industries […]

Automating metrics collection on Amazon EKS with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus managed scrapers

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 […]

Ingesting administrative logs from Microsoft Azure to AWS CloudTrail Lake

In January 2023, AWS announced the support of ingestion for activity events from non-AWS sources using CloudTrail Lake. Making CloudTrail Lake a single location of immutable user and API activity events for auditing and security investigations. AWS CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing user and API activity on […]

Enable cloud operations workflows with generative AI using Agents for Amazon Bedrock and Amazon CloudWatch Logs

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 […]

Serverless Governance of Software Deployed with AWS Service Catalog

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 […]