AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: Customer Solutions
Get Operational Insights Fast with AWS Health and Amazon Q
For organizations with multiple AWS accounts, staying on top of planned AWS service changes and events is critical to keep operations and business running smoothly. Organizations use AWS Health for ongoing visibility into resource performance and the availability of AWS services and accounts, but the volume of notifications from AWS Health can sometimes be overwhelming. […]
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 […]
How Cigna Implemented a Multi-Region Centralized Alerting System on AWS
This post is co-written with Nicolas Trettel, Cloud Engineering Senior Advisor at Cigna. Monitoring applications and alerting on issues is crucial for building resilient systems. Amazon CloudWatch is a service that monitors applications, responds to performance changes, optimizes resource use, and provides insights into operational health. By collecting data across AWS resources, CloudWatch gives visibility […]
Exploring AWS Config data using Amazon Athena and Amazon Managed Grafana
This post is co-written with Jacob Rickerd, Principal Security Engineer at Attentive. The post walks through an example dashboard that Attentive, an AI-powered mobile marketing platform, uses for resource inventory, serving as a starting point for you to build comprehensive dashboards tailored to your environment and tag policies. Attentive is the AI-powered SMS and email […]
Analyzing your custom metrics spend contributors in Amazon CloudWatch
With an ever-growing volume of custom metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, customers often find it difficult to understand and manage their spend on this service. One of the most common questions they have is how to identify which metrics contribute the most to their spend in CloudWatch. This blog post introduces a solution that lets you […]
How Merck Automated AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Initialization and Monitoring
Blog is guest authored by Nasia Ullas of MSD. Enhancing the resilience and productivity of manufacturing processes is essential for pharmaceutical companies to meet business continuity objectives and innovate continuously. Merck & Co., Inc., also known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, a global bio-pharmaceutical company, mitigated resilience challenges by adopting AWS […]
Deploy AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup programmatically across your AWS Organization
AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup simplifies setting up AWS services, including Systems Manager, by automating common or recommended tasks in your AWS Organization across AWS accounts and Regions. These tasks include, creating required AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) instance profile roles and setting up operational best practices, such as periodic patch scans and inventory […]
Streamline AWS Support with AWS Chatbot and Microsoft Teams
ChatOps is a collaborative approach to operations that integrates chat platforms with automation tools and processes. It’s a way to bring together people, tools, and processes in a single chat interface to facilitate communication, collaboration, and execution of tasks within a team or organization. It is critical for an Operations team to act quickly and […]
Streamline compliance management with AWS Config custom rules and conformance packs
In this blog post, we will show you how to manage your compliance controls with AWS Config custom rules (custom rules) written in AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard) domain-specific language (DSL) with use of conformance packs. AWS CloudFormation Guard, the language used to write custom policy rules is an open-source domain-specific language (DSL) and command line […]