AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog

Category: Best Practices

Avoid patching failures due to low disk space with AWS Systems Manager Automation and CloudWatch alarms.

Every organization has to comply with keeping their fleet updated on patching and ensure that business and workloads are not affected due to patching. One of the challenges for the operations teams is to patch at scale without affecting production software. The most common reasons workloads patching fails are insufficient disk space, a spike in […]

Improving Mergers & Acquisitions IT Integration with AWS Application Discovery Service

The purpose of this post is to provide high-level guidance for Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) stakeholders on how to incorporate AWS Application Discovery Service as part of integration planning and integration data discovery. This post is part of a series of technical content on how M&A integration teams can utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS) to […]

Enable cross-account queries on AWS CloudTrail lake using delegated administration from AWS Organizations

We are excited to announce a new CloudTrail feature, which lets the management account of an organization configure up to 3 delegated administrators to manage the organization’s trails and Lake event data stores. A delegated administrator has permission to manage resources on behalf of the organization. Delegated administrator support enables flexibility for customers by allowing […]

The Importance of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Large-Scale Cloud Migrations

Key performance indicators (KPIs) are quantifiable measurements that help you understand how well you’re performing in specific areas. For example, from an incident management perspective, you may measure the mean time to recovery to understand how long it takes to recover following an incident. Large-scale enterprise migration programs (such as vacating a data center or […]

AWS Cloud Operations Kiosks at AWS re:Invent 2022

The Expo on Day 3 of AWS on Wednesday, December 1, 2021 at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada. For most organizations, the question isn’t “if we move to the cloud” anymore; it’s “what do we move first?” and “how soon can we be operating in the cloud?” Wherever you are in your digital […]

What to Look Out for with AWS Cloud Operations at re:Invent 2022

Headed to Las Vegas on November 28 to December 2nd for re:Invent 2022, the annual learning conference hosted by AWS for the global cloud computing community? If so, here is what to look out for with AWS Cloud Operations at re:Invent 2022! Wherever you are in your digital transformation, you can set up, maintain, and […]

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2022 Centralized Operations Management

Whatever stage you are at in your process of moving to or operating in the cloud, AWS offers centralized operations management services that you can use to manage and operate your applications on AWS, on-premises, in hybrid environments, or at the edge. Operate your applications from a central location with automation, integrations, built-in best practices, […]

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2022 Cloud Governance

Cloud governance and controls can be built into AWS right from the start in your AWS environment to help you address regulatory and compliance requirements. AWS Cloud Operations offers solutions with fine-grained controls to automate the setup of new cloud environments and to help with ongoing governance. With AWS Cloud Operations, you don’t have to […]

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2022 Compliance & Auditing

As organizations scale by moving more of their workloads to the cloud, they are looking to manage their cloud operations securely and to be prepared for compliance and auditing. AWS Cloud Operations aims to improve the compliance and auditing process in the cloud through best-in-class services by the scale and security of AWS infrastructure, per […]

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Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2022 Monitoring & Observability

Whether you are building out applications in the cloud, modernizing your environment, or migrating workloads, observability is vital to your success. Monitoring and observability provide operational visibility and insight into your workloads and are crucial to operational excellence. AWS Observability will be at re:Invent 2022 to share how you can leverage observability for your organization. […]