Category: AWS Organizations

As customers become more mature in the cloud, they will start to investigate how they can utilize additional AWS services in order to meet their goals. In many cases the initial phase will involve some research and testing of the service before deploying it across their cloud environment. For customers that may need to maintain […]

With 2022 behind us, we want to take the opportunity to highlight our readers and the top blog posts from 2022. A big thank you to all our readers but also our authors who continue to work on delighting our customers with their blog posts. #1 Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake – a managed audit and […]

In this post, we will show how you can deploy AWS Config custom rules across accounts in your organization, leveraging the Rules Development Kit (RDK), an open source development kit designed to support intuitive and efficient “Compliance-as-Code” workflows. With AWS Config custom rules, you can define custom logic for the desired configuration state of your […]

AWS Config continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations. You can use the service to automate the evaluation and remediation of recorded configurations against desired configurations. You also can review changes in configurations and relationships between AWS resources and dive into the history of a resource configuration. AWS Config conformance packs provide a general-purpose compliance […]

Every customer who uses Amazon Managed Grafana as part of their observability or data visualization service has multiple business units or divisions to serve. Users from these business units or divisions must access Amazon Managed Grafana and manage or view their own resources, such as data sources, dashboards, and alerts. Additionally, IT administrators must manage […]

This post describes how Expedia Group protects production database assets from accidental or automated deletion using the new Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) feature for AWS Service Catalog. We also cover the benefits of scaling using an ABAC strategy and how Expedia incorporated ABAC to their Cerebro platform. Prerequisites AWS Service Catalog AWS Identity and […]

AWS Systems Manager Explorer is a customizable operations dashboard that reports information about your AWS resources. Explorer displays an aggregated view of operations data (OpsData) for your AWS accounts and AWS Regions. OpsData also includes information from supporting AWS services, such as AWS Trusted Advisor, AWS Compute Optimizer, and AWS Support Center cases, among other […]

  AWS Service Catalog is a widely used service that simplifies the management of tools, services, and resources in AWS accounts for organizations. This service empowers end users to provision products vetted by their organization in their environments with confidence in security and compliance. Portfolios are shared with AWS accounts in an AWS Organization, from which […]

Organizations building modern applications require a way to gain actionable insights into their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) workloads. Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that collects operational data from logs, metrics, and events. The service lets customers monitor your resources spread across different accounts or regions in a single view, visualize […]

This post is written by Karl Schween, Principal Solutions Architect at AWS. This post is part one of two part series ‘Sharing AWS Outposts in a multi account AWS environment’ providing you guidance and considerations for sharing AWS Outposts and Amazon S3 on Outposts in a multiple AWS Account environment. AWS Outposts is a fully […]