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Category: AWS CloudFormation

Auto-scaling Amazon EC2 using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and alert manager

Customers want to migrate their existing Prometheus workloads to the cloud and utilize all that the cloud offers. AWS has services like Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling, which lets you scale out Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances based on metrics like CPU or memory utilization. Applications that use Prometheus metrics can easily integrate into […]

Deploy Multi-Account Amazon CloudWatch Dashboards

Organizations building modern applications require a way to gain actionable insights into their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) workloads. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that collects operational data from logs, metrics, and events. The service lets customers monitor your resources spread across different accounts or regions in a single view, visualize […]

Resizing volumes and instances using ServiceNow and AWS

The AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow enables ServiceNow end users to provision, manage, and operate AWS resources natively through ServiceNow. This lets our customers connect a technical operation with a business workflow, perhaps requiring approvals from management or other teams. The key in all of this is empowering and enabling end-users, thereby removing manual […]

Managing 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 […]

Integrating 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 […]

Supporting Data Residency Requirements by Extending AWS Control Tower Governance to Non-supported Regions

In today’s complex computing environment, organizations continually have new requirements for maintaining data. In essence, data residency is established on multiple levels, and AWS offers different features and services to support it. This post focuses on utilizing the AWS Control Tower governance model to support data residency requirements in regions where AWS Control Tower isn’t […]

How McAfee used Amazon CloudWatch to monitor a multi-PB data migration to Databricks on AWS

This blog post was contributed by Kanishk Mahajan@AWS; Hashem Raslan, Manager, Engineering@McAfee; Anastasia Zamyshlyaeva, Vice President, Data Engineering@McAfee McAfee, a global leader in online protection security enables home users and businesses to stay ahead of fileless attacks, viruses, malware, and other online threats. McAfee wanted to create a centralized data platform as a single source […]

Gaining more control over Multi-Regional AWS CloudFormation deployments

Routinely deploying resources to multiple regions is increasingly normal for situations like Disaster Recovery (DR), regulatory and compliance, and end-user latency requirements. Keeping multiple environments in sync is challenging and drives Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption through services like AWS CloudFormation. This post demonstrates a generic design pattern for orchestrating multi-Regional deployments when you need […]

Proactively keep resources secure and compliant with AWS CloudFormation Hooks

Organizations want their developers to provision resources that they need to build applications while maintaining compliance with security, operational, and cost optimization best practices. Most solutions today inform customers about noncompliant resources only after those resources have been provisioned. These noncompliant resources exist until they are deleted or modified and increase security risk, operational overhead, […]

Automate time series network visualizations for AWS PrivateLink using Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights

AWS PrivateLink is a highly available, scalable technology that lets you connect your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to supported AWS services without requiring public internet traversal. It also lets you privately connect to services hosted by other AWS accounts (VPC endpoint services) and supported AWS Marketplace partner services. Amazon CloudWatch Contributor Insights is a […]