AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Category: Announcements

Resolve application issues autonomously with AWS DevOps Agent (Preview) and Dynatrace

Application issues require fast resolution to maintain business continuity and customer satisfaction, but manual investigation creates delays that can cost organizations significantly in lost revenue and productivity. Last week, we launched AWS DevOps Agent (Preview), a frontier agent that resolves and proactively prevents incidents, continuously improving reliability and performance of applications in AWS, multicloud, and […]

Troubleshoot AWS Tagging Compliance with AWS Resource Explorer

With AWS Resource Explorer’s immediate resource discovery launch on October 13, 2025, customers can now discover resources from their very first search in Unified Search in the AWS Management Console or the Resource Explorer console. Operations like troubleshooting and problem resolution, making resource changes, investigating resource dependencies, identifying security risks, and optimizing costs are critical […]

2025 Top 10 Announcements for AWS Cloud Operations

2025 Top 10 Announcements for AWS Cloud Operations

At AWS re:Invent 2025, we’re excited to share latest innovations designed to empower organizations to thrive in the transformative AI era. This year’s top Cloud Operations announcements address the most pressing challenges our customers face today—from gaining comprehensive visibility into generative AI workloads to significantly accelerating incident resolution and efficiently managing the exponential growth of […]

Announcing AWS CloudTrail Event Aggregation and Insights for Data Events

AWS CloudTrail records API calls and events for your AWS account, providing audit trails for governance, compliance, and operational troubleshooting. Customers can also enable data events in CloudTrail to gain deeper visibility into resource-level operations. These include Amazon S3 object-level operations (such as GetObject/PutObject) or AWS Lambda function invocations. Data events help detect unauthorized access, […]

New AWS Organizations Skill Builder courses to level up your multi-account strategy

Your AWS journey, whether starting with a handful of accounts or scaling to thousands, requires a strong foundation. Think of it like building a skyscraper: the taller you plan to go, the stronger your base needs to be. As your organization grows, so do the challenges of managing multiple AWS accounts. Security policies, access controls, […]

AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon migration to OpenTelemetry

AWS X-Ray SDKs/Daemon migration to OpenTelemetry

AWS X-Ray is transitioning to OpenTelemetry as its primary instrumentation standard for application tracing. OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation solutions are recommended for producing traces from applications and sending them to AWS X-Ray. X-Ray’s existing console experience and functionality continuous to be fully supported and remains unchanged by this transition. OpenTelemetry is the industry-wide open-source standard for tracing […]

AWS Resource Explorer launches immediate resource discovery within a Region

AWS Resource Explorer launches immediate resource discovery within a Region

AWS now provides immediate access to resource search capabilities through AWS Resource Explorer so that customers can discover resources across services in their AWS account. Operations like troubleshooting and problem resolution, making resource changes, investigating resource dependencies, identifying security risks and optimizing costs are critical everyday activities for the cloud operations team. With resource search, […]

Guide to AWS Cloud Resilience sessions at re:Invent 2025

Guide to AWS Cloud Resilience sessions at re:Invent 2025

If you’re attending AWS re:Invent with the goal of learning how to prevent costly downtime for your organization, you can look forward to more than 150 breakout sessions, workshops, chalk talks, builders’ sessions, and code talks that will help you improve the resilience of your critical applications. New this year, we’ll also be hosting two […]

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals new enhancements for application monitoring

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals new enhancements for application monitoring

Today, we’re excited to announce new enhanced features in Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals that simplifies how you monitor large-scale distributed applications. Improvements to CloudWatch Application Signals application map automatically discovers and organizes services into groups based on their relationships, with support for custom grouping that aligns with your business perspective. You can now view the […]

Your Essential Guide to Cloud Governance at AWS re:Invent 2025

Your Essential Guide to Cloud Governance at AWS re:Invent 2025

With organizations increasingly recognizing governance as a strategic enabler rather than a compliance burden, this year’s Cloud Governance under AWS Cloud Ops track delivers cutting-edge sessions that bridge the gap between operational excellence and business innovation. The governance landscape is evolving rapidly, and this year’s sessions are organized around four critical themes that reflect the […]