Category: Management Tools

Modern IT infrastructure in Cloud is becoming increasingly distributed and data intensive. With the growing number of devices, applications, and users consuming the services, the amount of data being transmitted across networks is increasing rapidly. This increase in data warrants organizations to have visibility in the network traffic. Analysis of network traffic can help in […]

AWS Config is a service that tracks configuration changes of AWS resources in your AWS account.  AWS Config uses the configuration recorder to create a configuration item whenever it detects a change to a resource type that it is recording. For example, if AWS Config is recording Amazon S3 buckets, AWS Config creates a configuration […]

The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) contains hundreds of individual requirements that apply to broad swaths of an organization’s personnel and IT landscape. PCI DSS compliance can be a challenge for customers involved with payments and for those that interact with credit and debit cardholder data. The PCI DSS refers to this […]

AWS CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing user and API activity on AWS for audit, security, and operational purposes. You can aggregate and immutably store your activity events, and run SQL-based queries for search and analysis. On Jan 2023, we released a new feature that expands the capabilities […]

AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalog of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. In addition, organizations can centrally manage deployed IT services, applications, resources, and metadata. This helps you […]

One of the key focus areas for customers running their mission-critical container workloads on AWS, is to be able to analyze and act on operational events quickly. Getting real-time visibility into performance issues, traffic spikes, infrastructure events and security threats can enable teams to quickly address issues and prevent potential downtime. AWS Chatbot helps teams […]

Do you have thousands of Amazon CloudWatch alarms across AWS Regions and want to quickly identify which ones are low-value alarms or misconfigured alarms across regions? Are you looking for ways to identify alarms which are in ‘ALARM’ or ‘IN_SUFFICIENT’ state for several days and need to be revisited? Do you need a cleanup mechanism […]

This post is co-authored by Grzegorz Kaczor from Hapag-Lloyd AG and Michael Graumann and Daniel Moser from AWS. Introduction Establishing observability over the state, performance, health, and security posture of applications is key to successfully operating multi-account workloads in the cloud. As the number and size of workloads increases, finding and correlating all available information […]

Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), a prominent Austrian banking group, maintains a multi-account AWS environment that allows product teams to build and test new customer features at speed, but within the limits of central security guardrails. One of these guardrails requires central logging of all sessions established to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances across the […]

Many customers that use Amazon Managed Grafana have requested for the ability to choose a Grafana version with the latest product features including navigation, dashboards, and visualizations. Today, we are announcing Amazon Managed Grafana workspace version selection with version 9.4 support. Since the product was launched, Amazon Managed Grafana maintained a single version offering globally. […]