AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to introduce an enhanced integration between AWS Resilience Hub and AWS Fault Injection Service for facilitating the process of creating and running chaos experiments. We’ll focus on how to leverage this integration through the AWS Management Console, offering a user-friendly, point-and-click approach. The console interface is ideal for those […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is excited to introduce an enhanced integration between AWS Resilience Hub and AWS Fault Injection Service that streamlines the process of creating and running chaos experiments. We’ll focuses on how to leverage this integration through the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), catering to users who prefer command-line tools for automation […]

An effective patch management is foremost for maintaining system security, reliability, and compliance across your IT infrastructure. AWS Systems Manager (SSM) provides a comprehensive patching solution, enabling you to automate the deployment of operating system updates to your nodes deployed on AWS, on-premises, and multicloud environments. However, as your organization scales, tracking and reporting on […]

Introduction In order to enforce best practices for governance and compliance across AWS accounts in a centralized way, AWS Control Tower is an easy place to start.  However, ensuring continuous compliance requires regular drift detection and remediation, which Control Tower facilitates by providing a mechanism to detect drift and publish notifications to Amazon Simple Notification […]

Introduction AWS Organizations provides the capability to centrally manage and govern your AWS environment. As an organization, you can delegate administration of specific AWS services integrated with AWS Organizations to authorized individuals or teams. Implementing effective controls for these delegated administrators is essential to ensuring the security, compliance, and operational efficiency of your AWS environment. […]

December 24, 2024: This post was republished to update terminology for AWS RAM resource shares and to update links. AWS customers use AWS Organizations as the basis of a multi-account AWS environment as defined by the Organizing Your AWS Environment Using Multiple Accounts AWS Whitepaper. Organizations is an AWS service that enables you to centrally […]

This blog post will guide you through a quick start on using Amazon Q Developer for operational investigations on AWS. We’ll walk you through the step-by-step process of setting up this powerful AI-assisted troubleshooting tool . You’ll discover how to configure user permissions, manage data access, set up encryption, and start your first investigation. We […]

Today, we are excited to announce a significant enhancement to AWS Resource Explorer that delivers a unified view of centralized resource insights and properties from AWS services. With the enhanced Resource Explorer experience, relevant data and insights from multiple AWS services is centralized for supported resource types. Customers use keyword-based search to return a list […]

Keeping your AWS infrastructure up-to-date and secure is a critical part of maintaining a robust and reliable cloud environment. AWS Systems Manager’s patching capabilities are a powerful tool in this effort, allowing you to automatically apply the latest security updates and bug fixes to your managed nodes, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, on-premises […]

While protection of data is critical, equally important is observing who accesses it.  AWS services allow you to control your data by determining where it’s stored, who has access, and how it’s secured. AWS CloudTrail provides an effective way to track data access activities.  You can detect access attempts, and identify potential unauthorized attempts. CloudTrail, […]