Category: Technical How-to

Managing metrics collection at scale in complex cloud environments presents significant challenges for organizations, particularly when it comes to controlling costs and maintaining operational efficiency. As the volume of metrics grows exponentially with the expansion of container deployments and other cloud-native workloads, customers often struggle to balance comprehensive monitoring with resource optimization. This can lead […]

AWS Organizations enables customers to centrally manage their AWS accounts. Since many customers prefer to automate the account creation process, they can leverage CreateAccount API, thereby creating an account vending pipeline. This pipeline standardizes the deployment of policies, roles, and resources across new accounts while managing the complete lifecycle through eventual account closure. Through this […]

Modern architectures generate vast amounts of observability data across metrics, logs, and traces. When issues arise, teams spend hours—sometimes days—manually correlating information across multiple dashboards to identify root causes, directly impacting MTTR and productivity. Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals addresses this challenge by providing deep application visibility through automatic instrumentation, capturing key metrics like latency, error […]

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 […]

Organizations leveraging AWS CloudTrail to audit API access encounter a common challenge: CloudTrail data volume grows proportionally with AWS infrastructure expansion. A multi-account AWS organization generating millions of API calls daily can quickly amass terabytes of CloudTrail logs. When security teams conduct incident investigations or account activity audits, querying these logs in Amazon Athena becomes […]

In today’s cloud-native world, incident response teams face overwhelming challenges. When critical applications fail, engineers must sift through mountains of observability data across multiple services; all while under intense pressure to restore service quickly. This manual correlation process is time-consuming, error-prone, and often delays resolution, resulting in extended outages and frustrated customers. Traditional monitoring tools […]

Modern distributed systems must be resilient to unexpected disruptions to maintain availability, performance, and stability. Chaos engineering helps teams uncover hidden weaknesses by deliberately injecting faults into a system and observing how it recovers. While traditional testing validates expected behavior, chaos engineering tests system resilience during failures. AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) is a […]

Introduction As the adoption of agentic AI applications continues to grow, ensuring the reliability, performance, and overall observability of these systems becomes increasingly critical. Agentic AI applications, powered by large language models (LLM) and integrated with various data sources and APIs, can quickly become complex, making it challenging to gain visibility into their inner workings […]

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 […]

AWS customers use AWS CloudTrail Lake to aggregate and analyze their AWS activity for security, operational troubleshooting, and compliance purposes. However, when investigating security incidents or conducting compliance audits, customers often need additional business context beyond the basic event details – like which team or project owns the affected resources, or what where the properties […]