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Category: Announcements

Streamlining AWS Application Migration Service Replication Agent deployment using MGN connector

AWS Application Migration Service (AWS MGN) is AWS’s recommended service for migrations to AWS. It simplifies and expedites migrating your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure platforms to run natively on AWS. Over the last year, we’ve shared with you several major updates to the MGN service, focusing on offering customers more ways […]

Announcing AWS CDK Observability Accelerator for Amazon EKS

Today we are happy to announce the all-new AWS CDK Observability Accelerator – a set of opinionated modules to help you set up observability for your AWS environments with AWS Native services and AWS-managed observability services such as Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and Amazon CloudWatch. AWS […]

Improve your security posture with AWS Control Tower and AWS Security Hub integration

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the integration between AWS Control Tower and AWS Security Hub. With this GA release, AWS Control Tower can detect control operations performed on the Security Hub detective controls from the Security Hub service. This includes the ability to detect if Security Hub controls enabled via […]

Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake Dashboards – Visualize and Analyze CloudTrail data

In January 2022, AWS announced general availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed audit and security lake that allows you to aggregate, immutably store and query activity logs for auditing, security investigation and operational troubleshooting. Since launch, thousands of customers have adopted this feature. We are excited to announce that CloudTrail Lake dashboards are now […]

Announcing AWS Config now supports recording exclusions by resource type

AWS Config is a service that tracks configuration changes of AWS resources in your AWS account. AWS Config uses the configuration recorder to detect these changes and then captures them as configuration items. The configuration recorder is created and started in each Region where you set up AWS Config. By default, the configuration recorder records […]

Building CIS hardened Golden Images and Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder

Until recently, customers had to navigate to the AWS Marketplace Console and search for a compatible Amazon Machine Image (AMI) product for your image pipeline. They also had to write their own custom components to harden the operating systems to meet Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmark guidelines. This required subscriptions to the CIS Benchmark […]

AWS Recognized as a Leader in the 2023 ISG Provider Lens for Mainframe Application Modernization Software

Industry analyst firm Information Services Group, Inc. (ISG) has published its annual ISG Provider Lens “Mainframes – Services and Solutions” reports. These reports assess the current market positioning of vendors offering mainframe application modernization software to enterprises, based on the depth of their service offerings and market presence. AWS Mainframe Modernization service has marked its […]

Announcing Amazon Managed Grafana workspace version selection with version 9.4 support

Many customers that use Amazon Managed Grafana have requested for the ability to choose a Grafana version with the latest product features including navigation, dashboards, and visualizations. Today, we are announcing Amazon Managed Grafana workspace version selection with version 9.4 support. Since the product was launched, Amazon Managed Grafana maintained a single version offering globally. […]

Engage Incident Responders with theOn-Call Schedules in AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager

Engage Incident Responders with the On-Call Schedules in AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager

AWS Systems Manager Incident Manager is an incident management console designed to help users mitigate and recover from incidents affecting their AWS-hosted applications. We are excited to announce that Incident Manager, a capability of AWS Systems Manager, now provides on-call schedules, a cost-effective solution for helping 24/7 coverage for critical issues. Now, AWS customers can […]