Category: Management Tools

Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights is a fully managed monitoring and observability service that provides DevOps engineers, developers, SREs, and IT managers with out-of-the-box visibility into their containerized applications and microservice environments. With Amazon CloudWatch Container Insights, you can monitor, isolate, and diagnose issues in your Kubernetes clusters with minimal effort. It delivers infrastructure telemetry like […]

Amazon CloudWatch enables customers to collect monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, alarms, and events, thereby allowing easy workload visualization and notifications. Many customers use Amazon CloudWatch  dashboards to monitor applications and infrastructure insights in order to have a unified dashboard for monitoring. Traditionally, operational health data access was only viewable for […]

Introduction As customers migrate legacy workloads to AWS Cloud, they may need to rehost or replatform applications to Amazon EC2 servers. To benefit from the scalability of cloud, customers need to be able to scale these EC2 servers up or down, on demand and on schedule. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Groups provide the on-demand scaling […]

Amazon Connect is an easy-to-use cloud contact center solution that helps companies of any size deliver superior customer service at a lower cost. Connect has many real-time monitoring capabilities. For requirements that go beyond those supported out of the box, Amazon Connect also provides you with data and APIs you can use to implement your […]

Customers running microservice-based workloads in a serverless environment frequently have issues with troubleshooting incidents as the data they need can be distributed across hundreds or thousands of components. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how you can reduce the mean time to resolution (MTTR, or the average time it takes to repair or mitigate […]

Despite the many benefits of moving to the Cloud, large enterprises frequently struggle to deliver migrations (and the related business transformation) in the planned timeframe. Why?  What are the key factors that ensure a successful migration that becomes an oft-quoted industry benchmark for a Cloud driven transformation; rather than a moribund initiative where a number […]

Many customers are looking to adopt a multi-account strategy within their AWS environment. This allows customers to isolate their workloads into different environments including test, dev, and production in addition to separating workloads based on regulatory requirements. As customers scale their multi-account environments, one strategy to increase agility is to offer business units their own […]

As we all know, using multiple accounts on your AWS environment is one of the recommended best practices when organizing your workloads and your environment. Using multiple accounts brings multiple benefits allowing you to better leverage AWS services. However, AWS accounts are additional resources that you need to manage. In this blog post, you will […]

Overview Maintaining and improving end user experience is key and as your business grows, the number of endpoints you need to observe can grow quickly. It can become more challenging and time consuming to build multiple canaries to observe them. This solution is designed to show how you can use a consistent and automated approach […]

Customers may have different processes for image building across virtual machines, containers, or both. This variation in processes introduces operational overhead in managing images, including the initial configuration and the ongoing updates. From the AWS Well-Architected Operational Excellence Pillar, section “Document and share lessons learned”, these images should be standardized, configured with the latest patches, […]