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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 […]

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Simplify infrastructure deployments using Customizations for AWS Control Tower and AWS Serverless Application Model

Customers want flexibility and simpler ways to manage their AWS accounts. There are several ways customers can choose to customize their AWS account deployments at scale with flexibility such as Account Factory Customization (AFC), a native solution within AWS Control Tower account factory, or Customizations for Control Tower (CfCT), which this blog focuses on. To […]

Automate updating approval cut off dates for Patch Manager Patch Baselines

Automate updating approval cut off dates for Patch Manager Patch Baselines

AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager helps AWS customers manage and automate the process of patching their Linux and Windows managed nodes in AWS and hybrid environments. It provides various options and allows greater control over which patches are approved or rejected during installation using patch baselines. One parameter of patch baseline approval rules is the Auto […]

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 […]

How to test your AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery implementation

Maintaining application and data resilience in the face of an ever-evolving risk landscape is a challenge for applications with legacy architectures. These risks can include ransomware attacks, natural disasters, user error, hardware faults, and many others. Organizations want to recover workloads within appropriate timescales with minimal loss of data from an unforeseen event. Organizations seek […]

Provision products and raise patch change requests in AWS via ServiceNow

ServiceNow is a popular cloud-based IT Service Management (ITSM) platform. Organizations use ServiceNow to manage incidents, track scheduled and planned infrastructure changes, manage new service requests and track configuration items across IT systems. Common questions I’ve had from customers include how they can use ServiceNow to provision new instances. Or, how to use ServiceNow to […]

Managing CloudWatch Synthetics canaries at scale

Managing CloudWatch Synthetics canaries at scale

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics offers an automated approach to monitoring the performance and availability of your application endpoints, REST APIs, and website content, allowing you to discover issues before your customers do. As your applications and suite of accompanying canaries grows over time, it becomes more challenging and time consuming to manage them at scale. This […]

Managing Technical Diversity and Migration Capability in Mergers and Acquisitions

In Mergers and Acquisitions, the need to understand and manage technical diversity and migration readiness is paramount to ensure cohesion and continued success for the combined organization. This blog post discusses some of the considerations in this space and highlights existing AWS Mechanisms that can help organizations through this process across three phases: Assess, Mobilize, […]