Category: Management Tools

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS) provides a managed Kubernetes service, simplifying cluster operations by offloading undifferentiated heavy lifting to AWS. With the Kubernetes release cycle of a new release every 4 months, customers have difficulty in keeping their EKS clusters up-to-date, especially across multiple AWS accounts. Additionally, keeping track of EKS version will aid your […]

You can now configure thresholds for when Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor creates health events for your application’s internet traffic. Internet Monitor creates health events when availability or performance scores drop across your application’s monitored geographies. Overview of threshold configuration options Internet Monitor provides near-continuous internet measurements for your internet traffic, including availability and performance metrics, […]

AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) allows customers to provision and customize their account in AWS Control Tower using Terraform. AFT can also import existing AWS Control Tower managed accounts into AFT management, allowing you to manage the global and account-specific customization at scale using Terraform. We hear from customers that they want […]

Introduction Monitoring is a critical aspect of maintaining the health and performance of any distributed system. In the case of Apache Kafka-based applications, configuring robust monitoring on kafka clusters becomes more crucial due to the real-time nature of data processing. This blog is intended for individuals or organizations utilizing Apache Kafka-based applications, specifically those facing […]

Is my workload well-architected? Is my team following cloud best practices? How do other customers implement solution X? What is the best way to configure service Y? These are examples of questions I usually get from my customers who want to validate if their architecture is aligned with AWS best practices. The answers to these […]

AWS Mainframe Modernization service supports AWS CloudFormation templates to manage environments and applications, allowing customers to leverage best practices of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and DevOps. This post defines the architectural improvements fostered by CloudFormation for mainframe applications modernized with AWS cloud. We’ll then cover the benefits of IaC in specific contexts for modernized mainframe applications. We’ll […]

AWS Config recently added support for configuration recorder as a resource type. The AWS::Config::ConfigurationRecorder resource is a configuration item (CI) for configuration recorder that tracks changes to the state of AWS Config configuration recorder (configuration recorder). You can use this CI to check if the state of the configuration recorder has changed (drifted), from its […]

Do you have entire fleets of dynamically changing resources that you are struggling to easily monitor and set alarm on? Do you have a ton of dangling alarms that you are paying for and that is cluttering your view? Are you looking for a simplified way to create alarms that automatically adjusts to resources that […]

Introduction This blog post is a continuation of Part 1. To recap, as your organization adopts AWS, you will likely leverage multi-account architectures to meet your requirements. We introduced some foundational patterns to prepare the environments for centralized operations and governance using AWS Cloud Operations services. In this blog (Part 2), we will show you […]

Keywords: AWS Systems Manager, Best Practices, Customer Solutions, Management & Governance, Management Tools, Technical How-to, Amazon Quicksight, AWS Backup. Many customers are migrating to AWS to leverage cost reduction, boost staff productivity, improve operational resilience, and increase business agility. As they adopt AWS, they will leverage multi-account architectures to meet business, governance, security and operational […]