Category: Technical How-to

[Update] AWS Control Tower 3.0 now allows you to either select organization-level CloudTrail trails or opt out of Control Tower-managed trails, eliminating the need for the workaround mentioned in this blog. For additional details, refer to the Release notes. The customers that we work with often use multiple AWS accounts to meet their business needs. […]

Backup compliance in AWS includes defining and enforcing backup policies to encrypt your backups, protect them from manual deletion, prevent changes to your backup lifecycle settings, and audit and report on backup activity from a centralized console. AWS Backup Audit Manager, a feature within the AWS Backup service, provides built-in compliance controls for these areas. […]

Organizations have many business reasons to track resource usage across their AWS environments. For example, management and administrative teams want to track operation expenditure, license governance, and asset tracking for their AWS Marketplace solutions across Regions currently in use. A centralized reporting dashboard allows the teams to access this information quickly and efficiently. This post […]

Before defining observability, consider the following example: You run an e-commerce site, and you’re interested in understanding the customer experience of the site, as well as how that translates into sales. You have identified that long page-loading times lead to poor customer experience, which in turn leads customers to abandon their carts and buy competing […]

Customers use the cloud to move faster and build differentiated products and services. AWS lets you experiment, innovate, and scale more quickly, all while providing a flexible and secure cloud environment. Furthermore, a multi-account AWS environment lets you build and deploy workloads quickly, while providing mechanisms to do so in a secure, scalable, and resilient […]

AWS has a native feature flagging solution, AWS AppConfig Feature Flags. Feature flags are a powerful tool that allow engineers to safely push out new features to customers, but doing so in a measured and usually gradual way. In this blog post, you will learn about what feature flags are, what are the benefits to […]

In today’s complex computing environment, organizations continually have new requirements for maintaining data. In essence, data residency is established on multiple levels, and AWS offers different features and services to support it. This post focuses on utilizing the AWS Control Tower governance model to support data residency requirements in regions where AWS Control Tower isn’t […]

Large-scale distributed software systems in the cloud are composed of several individual sub-systems—such as CDNs, load balancers, web servers, application servers and databases—as well as their interactions. The interactions sometimes have unpredictable outcomes caused by unforeseen events (for example, a network failure, instance failure, etc.). These events can lead to system-wide failures of your critical […]

Routinely deploying resources to multiple regions is increasingly normal for situations like Disaster Recovery (DR), regulatory and compliance, and end-user latency requirements. Keeping multiple environments in sync is challenging and drives Infrastructure as Code (IaC) adoption through services like AWS CloudFormation. This post demonstrates a generic design pattern for orchestrating multi-Regional deployments when you need […]

Managing the deployment of containers in a multi-tenant environment presents a number of new challenges for many of my customers. Some organizations have explored building and managing their own Kubernetes container orchestration environment, but the management challenges lead them to evaluate Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Particularly, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) are using a […]