Category: Announcements

AWS CloudTrail now includes a Data event coverage page in the AWS CloudTrail console, giving you a single view of how well your resources are covered by data event logging. CloudTrail records API activity across your AWS account for security auditing, compliance, and operational troubleshooting. Management events, the control-plane actions such as creating a bucket […]

Starting today, you can manage resource tags in bulk in the AWS Resource Explorer console, and requests to Tag Editor console will redirect to Resource Explorer automatically. This post shows how each Tag Editor task works in Resource Explorer and where the steps differ. Benefits of tagging resources in Resource Explorer. Finding resources and tagging […]

Telemetry volume and incident counts keep growing while operations headcount stays flat, and coding tools now produce changes faster than most release processes can review them. The AIOps topic on the re:Invent 2026 Cloud Operations (COP) track covers how AI agents handle operational work: investigating incidents, recommending fixes, reviews code changes to catch issues before […]

As organizations continue to scale their cloud presence and bring AI agents into production, effective operations become increasingly critical for success. The AWS re:Invent 2026 Cloud Operations track brings together industry experts, AWS leaders, and customers to share how they modernize monitoring and observability for applications and the AI agents now running alongside them. This […]

Introduction If you operate AWS Systems Manager (SSM) documents, such as Automation runbooks and Run Command documents, across an AWS Organization, you must decide which accounts can run them. Until now, that meant sharing each document with a list of individual account IDs through the ModifyDocumentPermission API, which accepts up to 1,000 account IDs per […]

Introduction August and September brought the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Omni, an AI-first, app-centric observability experience that brings together telemetry across AWS accounts, Regions, and Azure workloads in a single space. Alarms gained warm-up periods and wall clock evaluation windows, cutting the noise that comes from startup gaps and rolling-window edge cases. Database observability […]

AWS CloudTrail now integrates with Amazon Q in the AWS Management Console, letting you investigate your AWS account activity using plain language. CloudTrail records API activity across your AWS account for security auditing, compliance, and operational troubleshooting. Getting insights from this data has traditionally meant writing queries in Amazon Athena or Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights, […]

Introduction July was a busy month for AWS Observability. We launched features to make the telemetry you already collect more actionable, and take the operational work of collecting it off your hands. Log analytics moved closer to action with alarms that run straight from a log query and enrichment that happens at ingestion. Application-level observability […]

Introduction Welcome to the latest edition of This Month in AWS Observability, featuring what’s new across Amazon CloudWatch and AI-driven operations this June! Native OpenTelemetry metrics with PromQL querying is now generally available in CloudWatch, 23 new Logs Insights commands launched for deeper statistical and structured analysis, Session Replay now in CloudWatch RUM, and AWS […]

Many AWS customers move their AWS accounts between organizations When your company manages more than one organization, and whether you regularly move accounts between them; or you are consolidating accounts after a merger, acquisition, or divesture. Account migrations are part of operating on AWS.   Previously, moving an account meant removing it from the source organization, making it standalone, then inviting it to the target organization. For accounts with AWS Resource Access […]