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Have you ever been investigating a problem and opened up a log file and thought “I have no idea what I am looking at. If only I could get a summary of the data.” Observability and log data play an important role in maintaining operational excellence and ensuring the reliability of your applications and services. […]

AWS has been named as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, previously known as Gartner Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Magic Quadrant. This report assesses vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Compared to the previous year, AWS has moved up higher on the Ability […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Customers in highly regulated industries, such as Financial Services or Healthcare and Life Sciences, often need to audit every action made in environments with sensitive data. Regulations like HIPAA or FFIEC, and industry frameworks like the PCI DSS, require granular log entries that record user and administrative actions within an environment containing sensitive data, and […]

Leveraging Infrastructure as Code for AWS Mainframe Modernization with Terraform AWS Mainframe Modernization service is a cloud-native platform to modernize, migrate, execute, and operate mainframe applications. In addition to analysis and transformation tools, it provides a fully-managed and resilient runtime environment making it easierto run and operate modernized applications. Starting today, you can define AWS Mainframe […]

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 […]

Organizations commonly leverage AWS services to enhance the observability and operational excellence of their workloads. However, often it is unclear the actions that teams should take when observability metrics are delivered to them, it can be difficult to understand which metrics need action to remediate and which ones are simply noise. For example, if an […]

A multicloud strategy presents various challenges, including observing and managing applications and infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms. Maintaining consistent tooling for visualizing operational data and automating actions helps organizations address this challenge. Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Systems Manager are two services that provide unified monitoring, observability, and automation capabilities for workloads deployed on AWS, on-premises, […]