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Category: Multicloud

Observe your Azure and AWS workloads simultaneously with Amazon CloudWatch

Observe your Azure and AWS workloads simultaneously with Amazon CloudWatch

Overview Effective operation of cloud applications and services demands a strong focus on monitoring and observability. It’s critical for your teams to define, capture, and analyze metrics, ensuring operational visibility and extracting actionable insights from logs. In many companies, technical teams share integrated systems to monitor the services or infrastructure they manage. Shared observability systems […]

What’s new in AWS Observability at re:Invent 2023

What’s new in AWS Observability at re:Invent 2023

Let’s recap the week at AWS re:Invent 2023 with a round-up of the AWS Observability launches across Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon Managed Grafana, and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. From automatic instrumentation and operation of applications in CloudWatch, to agentless scraping of Prometheus metrics in Managed Service for Prometheus, read on to learn about the features […]

Analyzing Amazon Lex conversation log data with Amazon Managed Grafana

To support business and internal processes, organizations are increasing their use of conversational interfaces. They offer opportunities for more availability, improved service levels, and reduced costs. As these conversational services become more important, so, does the need to monitor performance and effectiveness of these interfaces with analytics and dashboards. This analysis is used to drive […]

Know Before You Go — AWS re:Invent 2023 Monitoring and Observability, and Centralized Operations Management

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2023 Monitoring and Observability, and Centralized Operations Management

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas from Nov 27 to Dec 1. Whether you’re a seasoned re:Invent veteran or a first-timer, the excitement and opportunities of AWS re:Invent never cease to amaze. With a total of 96 sessions covering the solution areas that […]

Migrate a WordPress Blog from Azure to AWS using AWS Application Migration Service

Introduction In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are constantly seeking new ways to enhance their operations, optimize costs, and leverage the benefits of cloud computing. As organizations evolve, they often find themselves needing to migrate their virtual machines (VMs) from one cloud provider to another, such as moving from Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) […]

Using Single Sign-on with Azure Active Directory and Cloud Migration Factory for simplified identity management

In this blog post we’ll look at how to configure the AWS Cloud Migration Factory (CMF) solution to use SAML authentication. We will use an existing identity provider (in this case Azure Active Directory). However, this can be replicated with any IDP that offers SAML authentication. By federating existing logins and accounts with CMF, the […]

AWS named as a Challenger in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability

AWS named as a Challenger in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring and Observability

For the second year, AWS has been named as a Challenger in the 2023 Gartner Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Magic Quadrant. This report is published annually and assesses vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. According to Gartner, “APM and observability tools are powerful analytics platforms that ingest multiple […]

Monitor hybrid and multicloud environments using AWS Systems Manager and Amazon CloudWatch

As customers accelerate their migrations to the cloud and transform their businesses, some find themselves in situations where they have to manage IT operations in a hybrid or multicloud environment. These customers are faced with additional complexity when it comes to operating their applications and infrastructure. They often must use solutions from multiple providers to […]

Use AWS Systems Manager for Multicloud operations management

A multicloud strategy creates management and governance challenges for our customers. These challenges include maintaining consistent cloud security and compliance policies across cloud providers, providing a single pane of glass for visualizing and acting on operational data, and providing deployment automation and control of cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud environments. AWS Cloud Operations services lets […]

Use AWS Systems Manager Automation to automate Snowflake storage integrations with Amazon S3

AWS Systems Manager lets you safely automate common and repetitive IT operations and management tasks. Furthermore, Systems Manager Automation lets you use predefined playbooks, or you can build, run, and share wiki-style automated playbooks to enable AWS resource management across multiple accounts and AWS Regions. Snowflake, the Data Cloud, is an APN Partner that provides […]