Category: Management Tools

Triaging the impact of AWS Health events is one of the most repetitive jobs in cloud operations, and it is exactly the kind of work AWS DevOps Agent can take on. Scheduled maintenance, operational issues, and Trust & Safety notifications (alerts about resources that may violate the AWS Acceptable Use Policy) land in your inbox […]

Introduction July was a busy month for AWS Observability. We launched features to make the telemetry you already collect more actionable, and take the operational work of collecting it off your hands. Log analytics moved closer to action with alarms that run straight from a log query and enrichment that happens at ingestion. Application-level observability […]

Organizations running serverless workloads across multiple cloud providers face a specific observability challenge. There is no persistent compute to host a telemetry collector, no sidecar to attach, and no daemon running between invocations. The standard OpenTelemetry deployment model (application to local collector to a telemetry backend) does not apply in this environment. Authentication presents an […]

Introduction As organizations centralize logs from AWS services, on-premises infrastructure, and third-party sources into CloudWatch Logs, storage becomes the dominant cost driver. Ingestion is one-time, but storage charges accumulate for the lifetime of the data, often years when compliance mandates like PCI-DSS or HIPAA apply. This post shows you how to use built-in CloudWatch Logs […]

Your on-premises firewalls, routers, and switches emit syslog that record device events such as denied connections, tunnel state changes, and routing changes. Network devices send their logs over syslog rather than the Amazon CloudWatch Logs API, so bringing that data into AWS takes extra components. A common approach has been to run a collection tier […]

Introduction As organizations scale their AWS footprint across multiple accounts and Regions, operations teams increasingly rely on Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights alarms with GROUP BY to monitor entire fleets from a single alarm. When this single alarm tracks hundreds of resources, a critical operational question arises: how do you ensure that every individual breach is […]

Introduction When AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager reports failures across hundreds of managed nodes spanning multiple accounts and regions, operations teams face a time-consuming investigation: logging into each account, correlating events, analyzing logs, and determining whether failures share a common root cause. A single patch cycle failure can consume hours of engineering time. In this […]

Teams running hybrid or multi-cloud estates collect telemetry from proprietary appliances, on-premises Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools, home-grown agents, and Apache Kafka streams that all must be parsed, normalized, and routed before it’s useful. Amazon CloudWatch lets you collect logs from 60+ AWS services, 20+ third-party tools, and your own applications using CloudWatch pipelines, HTTP […]

Summary Amazon Corporate Infrastructure Services (CIS) supports 330,000+ employees across 400 offices in 50+ countries. Every day, these employees depend on critical services including video conferencing (Zoom, Webex, Teams), collaboration tools (Slack, Microsoft M365), audiovisual systems, guest Wi-Fi, and ServiceNow for seamless productivity. Before we implemented the Full Stack Observability (FSO) platform, individual teams had […]

Operations teams managing AWS infrastructure must resolve issues quickly while maintaining thorough documentation and following best practices. Traditional workflows create bottlenecks where valuable engineering time is consumed by administrative tasks rather than actual problem-solving, directly impacting system availability and customer experience. Kiro CLI removes this administrative overhead. Kiro CLI is an AI-powered command-line assistant for […]