Category: Management Tools

Update April 17 2023 : The Contributor Insights rules provided in this blog post are now natively available in CloudWatch Contributor Insights. This post shows you how to use Amazon CloudWatch features, such as Logs Insights, Contributor Insights, and Metric Filters to analyze AWS Web Application Firewall (AWS WAF) logs, create dashboards, and generate alarms. […]

Time to read 10 minutes Time to complete 1 hour Cost to complete $15 per day (WordPress Multi-AZ application, AWS ResilienceHub Application and recommendations Learning level 200 – Intermediate Services used AWS ResilienceHub, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Fault Injection Simulator AWS Resilience Hub provides a central place to define, validate, and track the resiliency […]

In this post, we’ll show how enterprises can use AWS Service Catalog to create AWS Service Catalog products based on AWS machine learning (ML) services, such as Amazon Polly and Amazon Rekognition. These products are packaged in AWS Service Catalog portfolios that customers can use for their use cases. These portfolios can generate revenue for […]

Customers use AWS Control Tower Account Factory to create a new AWS account or enroll existing AWS accounts in their AWS Organizations. Customers launch Account Factory from the AWS Control Tower console or via AWS Service Catalog API. We hear from customers that they want to manage their AWS accounts in the same way that […]

As a Solution Architect at AWS, my customers regularly ask how to automate everyday operations within their cloud environment. Their use cases include a variety of operational needs, such as provisioning new resources within an AWS account, and patching/updating managed Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. They are also focused on cost management with […]

[Update on Sep/21/2024] AWS Config recorder has recently provided support for periodic recording, this captures the latest configuration changes of your resources once every 24 hours, reducing the number of changes delivered. This blog has been updated to incorporate that. [Update on May/14/2024] Minor update to the services that depend on AWS Config recorder and […]

In this post, you’ll learn how to utilize AWS Fault Injection Simulator (AWS FIS) and AWS Resilience Hub to refactor a simple serverless application. Resilience Hub lets you define, validate, and track the resiliency of your AWS application. Resilience Hub integrates with AWS FIS, a chaos engineering service, to provide fault-injection simulations of real-world failures. These […]

Monitoring AWS services comprising of a customer workload with Amazon CloudWatch is important for resiliency of a workload. Customers can bring their CloudWatch data alongside their existing Prometheus data sources to improve their ability to join or query across for a holistic view of their systems. The Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless […]

Patch Management is a critical operation that every organization wants to prioritize. This becomes tedious and challenging if an enterprise operates on a platform-consumer or hub-spoke model. An example of this would be a multi-account environment with hundreds of accounts and thousands of users using applications hosted in AWS. Different application owners have different requirements […]

Many of our customers use Amazon CloudWatch dashboards but have additional use cases that would benefit from the ability to include custom datasets in their existing dashboards. Custom widgets let you create your own visualizations or datasets, share them with other teams, provide input or parameters to your widget, and adjust the time scoped on […]