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Category: Management Tools

AWS Management and Governance at AWS re:Invent 2019

The time has never been better to operate a thriving business effectively on Amazon Web Services (AWS). With AWS Management and Governance services, you don’t have to choose between innovation and control – you can have both. Take your intrigue and come learn about what it takes to maintain and manage your environments effectively with […]

Leveraging AWS CloudFormation to create an immutable infrastructure at Nubank

Bruno Halley Schaefer, software engineer, Nubank Hugo Carvalho, senior solutions architect, AWS Marcelo Nunes, senior technical account manager, AWS Enterprise Support Team   Nubank, a Brazilian company that is one of the world’s largest independent digital banks, is innovatively transforming Latin America’s financial landscape by providing transparent, simple, and efficient services. The company fights complexity […]

How to Detect and Mitigate Guardrail Violation with AWS Control Tower

Many companies that I work with would like to innovate fast in the cloud by adopting a self-service infrastructure provisioning model in a multi-account environment. However, maintaining security and governance in such a model is an organizational challenge. Without structured guardrails and baseline configuration enforcement, troubleshooting and mitigating risk can be cumbersome. AWS Control Tower […]

Automating account administration using AWS Systems Manager

This post focuses on one way Dedalus, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner based out of Brazil, maintains agility and control over their customer environments, by using AWS Systems Manager Automation to simplify everyday administration tasks and perform configuration management at scale on Amazon EC2 instances. Dedalus, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner based in Brazil, who […]

Amazon S3 bucket compliance using AWS Config Auto Remediation feature

AWS Config keeps track of the configuration of your AWS resources and their relationships to your other resources. It can also evaluate those AWS resources for compliance. This service uses rules that can be configured to evaluate AWS resources against desired configurations. For example, there are AWS Config rules that check whether or not your […]

How to Create an AWS Cross-Account Support Case Dashboard

At AWS, our customer obsession drives us to leave no stone unturned in helping our customers achieve success. Therefore, when a customer finds an interesting way to create valuable functionality using a combination of AWS services, we want to let our other customers know about it so they can also reap the benefits. A great […]

How to self-service manage AWS Auto Scaling groups and Amazon Redshift with AWS Service Catalog Service Actions

Some of the customers I work with provide AWS Service Catalog products to their end-users to enable self-service for launching and managing Amazon Redshift, EMR clusters or web applications at scale using AWS Auto Scaling groups. These end-users would like the ability to self-manage these resources, for example, be able to take a snapshot of […]

Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights for Amazon ECS

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) lets you monitor resources using Amazon CloudWatch, a service that provides metrics for CPU and memory reservation and cluster and services utilization. In the past, you had to enable custom monitoring of services and tasks. Now, you can monitor, troubleshoot, and set alarms for all your Amazon ECS resources using […]

Managing Amazon WorkSpaces by integrating AWS Service Catalog with ServiceNow

As enterprises adopt Amazon WorkSpaces as their virtual desktop solution, there is a need to implement an ITSM-based self-service offering for provisioning and operations. In this post, you will learn how to integrate AWS Service Catalog with ServiceNow so users can request their own WorkSpace instances inclusive of all business-level approvals and auditing. You will […]

Replacing SSH access to reduce management and security overhead with AWS Systems Manager

Cesar Soares, DevOps and cloud infrastructure manager, VR Beneficios In many corporate enterprises, interactive shell access to cloud or datacenter environments is a necessity. It must be supported in a secure, auditable manner, often programmatic or via scripting, and with strong access controls. As discussed in a previous post by Jeff Barr, AWS Systems Manager […]