AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog
Category: Management Tools
Best practices: AWS Outposts in a multi-account AWS environment: Part 2
This post is written by Karl Schween, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. This post is part two of two part series ‘Sharing AWS Outposts in a multi account AWS environment’ providing you guidance and considerations for sharing AWS Outposts and Amazon S3 on Outposts in a multiple AWS Account environment. AWS Outposts is a fully […]
Read MoreBest practices: AWS Outposts in a multi-account AWS environment: Part 1
This post is written by Karl Schween, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. This post is part one of two part series ‘Sharing AWS Outposts in a multi account AWS environment’ providing you guidance and considerations for sharing AWS Outposts and Amazon S3 on Outposts in a multiple AWS Account environment. AWS Outposts is a fully […]
Read MoreAWS offerings available to support your cloud migration
With over a million active customers, AWS has experience helping organizations of all sizes migrate workloads to the cloud. A common theme is that selecting the right tools is crucial for reducing risk and enabling a reliable migration. In this blog post, I will select some of the most popular AWS migration tools and outline […]
Read MoreIntroducing Amazon EKS Observability Accelerator
Observability is critical for any application and understanding system behavior and performance. It takes time and effort to detect and remediate performance slowdowns or disruptions. Customers often spend much time writing configuration files and work quite to achieve end-to-end monitoring for applications. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, and Ansible, reduce manual efforts by […]
Read MoreProactive autoscaling of Kubernetes workloads with KEDA and Amazon CloudWatch
Container Orchestration platforms, such as Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), have simplified the process of building, securing, operating, and maintaining container-based applications. Therefore, they have helped organizations focus on building applications. Customers have started adopting event-driven deployment, allowing Kubernetes deployments to scale automatically in response to metrics from various sources dynamically. By implementing event-driven […]
Read MoreMonitor Istio on EKS using Amazon Managed Prometheus and Amazon Managed Grafana
Service Meshes are an integral part of the Kubernetes environment that enables secure, reliable, and observable communication. Istio is an open-source service mesh that provides advanced network features without requiring any changes to the application code. These capabilities include service-to-service authentication, monitoring, and more. Istio generates detailed telemetry for all service communications within a mesh. This telemetry […]
Read MoreIntroducing vended metrics for Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus
Today, I’m happy to announce that Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now vends usage metrics to Amazon CloudWatch. These metrics can be used to help you gain better visibility into your Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace. Let’s dive in to see how you could use these new Prometheus usage metrics in CloudWatch. I‘ve set […]
Read MoreManaging your application metadata using AWS Service Catalog App Registry
Customers need a way to track all of their AWS application resources in one place, and associate metadata like cost center, business unit with those resources centrally. AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry removes the need for complex tag management and allows for customers to aggregate application metadata such as cost center and business units across multiple […]
Read MoreIntegrating existing AWS CloudTrail configurations when launching AWS Control Tower
The customers that we work with often use multiple AWS accounts to meet their business needs. These multi-account environments are built based on the guidelines that AWS published. Customers have created custom mechanisms using AWS Organizations, AWS CloudTrail, and other AWS services to implement the guidelines. AWS Created the AWS Control Tower service as a […]
Read MoreDevOps automation for backup compliance in AWS using AWS Backup Audit Manager
Backup compliance in AWS includes defining and enforcing backup policies to encrypt your backups, protect them from manual deletion, prevent changes to your backup lifecycle settings, and audit and report on backup activity from a centralized console. AWS Backup Audit Manager, a feature within the AWS Backup service, provides built-in compliance controls for these areas. […]
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