Category: Management Tools*

Recently, we have seen a few interesting articles on using Parameter Store, part of EC2 Systems Manager, to store and access secrets on AWS. In his post, Simple Secrets Management via AWS’ EC2 Parameter Store, Matt Adorjan shows how to protect your AWS environment by securely storing secrets with Parameter Store and controlling access to […]

  A few days ago, The AWS Big Data Blog published a new blog post: “Analyze Security, Compliance, and Operational Activity Using AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Athena.” In this blog post, AWS Professional Services Consultant Sai Sriparasa shows how to set up and use the recently released Amazon Athena CloudTrail SerDe to query AWS CloudTrail […]

Amazon EC2 instances are often created and destroyed as demand dictates. Auto Scaling is great for dynamically scaling servers so that EC2 resources are consumed only when they are necessary. This blog post will show you how to connect EC2 instances created by an Auto Scaling group to an AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate server. […]

AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. You can use AWS Config Rules enables you to create rules that automatically check the configuration of AWS resources recorded by AWS Config. Over the last year, we expanded the service coverage […]

AWS CloudFormation allows developers and systems administrators to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources (called a stack) by provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable way. In this blog post, we will look back on the CloudFormation features and updates introduced in 2016, including: New AWS resources you can provision […]

Today, we are excited to launch the new Management Tools Blog. The AWS Management Tools are a group of services that help you provision, configure, monitor, track, audit, and cost manage your AWS and on-premises resources. This blog will cover a range of topics, including new feature updates, tips and tricks, as well as sample […]