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Best practices for analyzing AWS Config recording frequencies

Best practices for analyzing AWS Config recording frequencies

AWS Config tracks configuration changes across your AWS resources and AWS Organizations. AWS Config uses the configuration recorder to detect changes and records them as configuration items (CIs). As your infrastructure grows and becomes more complex, choosing the appropriate recording frequency becomes critical for maintaining operational visibility, meeting compliance requirements, and supporting your security posture. Since the launch of the periodic recording […]

Learn from AWS Fault Injection Service team’s approach to Game Days

Learn from AWS Fault Injection Service team’s approach to Game Days

In today’s digital world, availability and reliability are crucial competitive advantages. For DevOps and SRE teams, the ability to respond quickly and effectively to incidents can mean the difference between a minor issue and a major disruption of service that impacts millions of customers. Teams must have clear-cut runbooks and appropriate observability to be ready […]

Best practices for utilizing AWS Systems Manager with AWS Fault Injection Service

Introduction In today’s cloud-centric world, ensuring the resilience of mission-critical applications is paramount. The ability to withstand and recover from unexpected failures, including degradation of cloud provider services, can mean the difference between seamless operation and costly downtime. This is where the powerful combination of AWS Systems Manager (SSM) and AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS […]

Visualizing Amazon DynamoDB data with Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Managed Grafana

Visualizing Amazon DynamoDB data with Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Managed Grafana

High-performance applications with unlimited throughput capabilities pose significant monitoring challenges, especially when tracking real-time metrics, utilization, and throttling events across distributed database workloads. Near real-time visibility into metrics is crucial for application performance and cost optimization. AWS allows you to seamlessly integrate multiple services to tackle these operational complexities. With Amazon DynamoDB, you can build […]

Manage and view your AWS Health notifications in AWS User Notifications service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) now offers AWS managed notifications, a centralized way to manage and view default notifications in AWS User Notifications. Currently, only AWS Health events are available as managed notifications. With this new feature, you can stay informed about critical updates related to operations and account health. AWS User notifications channels include the […]

Title - Assess, Audit, and Evaluate AWS Resources Against AWS Sustainability Best Practices

Assess, Audit, and Evaluate AWS Resources Against AWS Sustainability Best Practices

At AWS, we are committed to running our business in the most environmentally friendly way possible. We also work to enable our customers to use the benefits of the cloud to better monitor and optimize their IT infrastructure. As reported in The Carbon Reduction Opportunity of Moving to Amazon Web Services, our infrastructure is 3.6 […]

Delegated Administrators Guide to Effective Controls in AWS Organizations

Introduction AWS Organizations provides the capability to centrally manage and govern your AWS environment. As an organization, you can delegate administration of specific AWS services integrated with AWS Organizations to authorized individuals or teams. Implementing effective controls for these delegated administrators is essential to ensuring the security, compliance, and operational efficiency of your AWS environment. […]

AWS Organizations, moving an organization member account to another organization: Part 1

December 24, 2024: This post was republished to update terminology for AWS RAM resource shares and to update links. AWS customers use AWS Organizations as the basis of a multi-account AWS environment as defined by the Organizing Your AWS Environment Using Multiple Accounts AWS Whitepaper. Organizations is an AWS service that enables you to centrally […]

Using Terraform with Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS

In this post, we explore how you can incorporate HashiCorp Terraform to manage your Amazon Web Services (AWS) application infrastructure after using AWS Control Tower with Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to manage your AWS ecosystem. The LZA deploys a cloud foundation that is architected to align with AWS best practices and multiple global […]

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2024 Cloud Governance and Compliance

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6. At AWS re:Invent, cloud enthusiasts from all over the world will gather together to collaborate and learn from one another! You will have the opportunity to meet with AWS experts, […]