AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Category: Announcements

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 […]

Embracing AI- driven operations and observability at re:Invent 2025

Embracing AI- driven operations and observability at re:Invent 2025

As organizations continue to scale their cloud presence, effective operations become increasingly critical for success. AWS re:Invent 2025’s Cloud Operations track brings together industry experts, AWS leaders, and customers to share insights on modernizing monitoring & observability through This blog post will guide you through the key themes of operations and observability and highlight sessions […]

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Building your operations management with AI-Powered Operations at re:Invent 2025

As organizations continue to scale and evolve their cloud environments, effective operations management has become more critical than ever. Operations management under the Cloud Operations track at AWS re:Invent 2025 offers a comprehensive lineup of sessions designed to help you build resilient, secure, and efficient operational practices across your AWS environment. Whether you’re managing complex […]

AWS Organizations launches account state information for granular account lifecycle management

AWS Organizations enables customers to centrally manage their AWS accounts. Since many customers prefer to automate the account creation process, they can leverage CreateAccount API, thereby creating an account vending pipeline. This pipeline standardizes the deployment of policies, roles, and resources across new accounts while managing the complete lifecycle through eventual account closure. Through this […]

AWS Systems Manager Run Command now supports interpolating parameters into environment variables

Introduction Today we are introducing an important enhancement to AWS Systems Manager (SSM) Documents environment variable interpolation when processing parameters. This feature, now available in schema version 2.2 with AWS Systems Manager Agent v3.3.2746.0 or later, simplifies document execution by ensuring parameter values are treated as literal strings, eliminating unexpected behavior and streamlining your automation processes. […]

Key Governance, Risk, and Compliance Sessions at re:Inforce 2025

Key Governance, Risk, and Compliance Sessions at re:Inforce 2025

We are incredibly excited to see you at AWS re:Inforce, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 16-18, 2025. This year’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance track features sessions on automating compliance, enhancing risk visibility, using generative AI for business growth, and maintaining security at scale, including 5 breakout sessions, 8 builder sessions, 7 chalk talks, 2 code […]

Announcing AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC Endpoints

Today, we are excited to announce AWS CloudTrail network activity for VPC endpoints, a new event type that captures actions transmitted through a Virtual Private Cloud Endpoint. In this preview, this new event type captures network activity events from VPC endpoints for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon S3, and […]

Introducing Just-in-time node access using AWS Systems Manager

Introducing Just-in-time node access using AWS Systems Manager

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of just-in-time node access, a new capability in AWS Systems Manager. Just-in-time node access enables dynamic, time-bound access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), on-premises, and multicloud nodes managed by AWS Systems Manager. It uses a policy-based approval process, allowing you to remove long-standing access while […]

New AWS Fault Injection Service recovery action for zonal autoshift

We’re excited to announce that AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) now supports a recovery action for Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal autoshift. With this integration, you can now perform more comprehensive testing by creating disruptive events and trigger a zonal autoshift as part of the same experiment. That way, you can observe how your application […]