AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Whether you are building out applications in the cloud, modernizing your environment, or migrating workloads, observability is vital to your success. Monitoring and observability provide operational visibility and insight into your workloads and are crucial to operational excellence. AWS Observability will be at re:Invent 2022 to share how you can leverage observability for your organization. […]

Artificial intelligence operations (AIOps) is the process of using machine learning techniques to solve operational problems. The goal of AIOps is to reduce human intervention in IT operations processes. By using advanced machine learning techniques, you can reduce operational incidents and increase service quality, and AIOps can help you predict incidents before they happen. Amazon […]

Your observability strategy starts with your business. “Observability” describes how well you can understand what’s happening in a system. Developing an observability strategy isn’t a one-time effort. It’s a continuous improvement effort that occurs throughout the lifecycle of your workloads. It enables your teams to determine whether or not the workloads they design and run […]

Are you an organization that needs help with Configuration, Compliance, and Auditing? Do you need to gain visibility of your organization’s account activity across AWS infrastructure? AWS CloudTrail records actions taken by users, roles, or even an AWS service. CloudTrail records actions taken in the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), AWS […]

Are you responsible for your company’s compliance? Do you want to make sure that your AWS resources are aligned to your company’s desired configurations? And make sure how to automate the remediations of noncompliant resources? Do you see an opportunity for your organization to automate its continuous compliance at scale? If you need to understand […]

In this post, we’ll walk you through the various best practices and recommendations for optimizing AWS Config costs. This also provides technical guidance for looking at the rules and the recorder, how to start deleting or removing rules that aren’t needed, and then editing the Settings of Config, specifically the “Resource types to record”, to […]

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization. You can utilize various CloudWatch capabilities to monitor the health of your application that is available over the internet, or resides within an Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) […]

CDW is an AWS Advanced Tier partner with six partner programs and 50+ AWS Customer launches. Furthermore, it has partnered with AWS Managed Services (AMS) to provide a competitive advantage that further propels the quality and delivery of end-to-end IT solutions. CDW Cloud Managed Services powered by AMS helps you deploy, deliver, and manage applications […]

We recently announced a new capability within AWS Systems Manager Session Manager that allows forwarding connections from client machines to ports on remote hosts. This enables users to securely access and manage remote servers (databases, web servers, etc.) in the private networks without needing to setup bastion hosts or open additional ports to the outside […]

Samuel Passman (spssmn, DevOps Consultant), James Dadd (jdaddaws, Infrastructure Architecture Consultant), Asad Syed (asadsy, DevOps Consultant), and Joseph Brian (jkbrian, Senior Engagement Manager) all with ProServe Globals Team. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) is an open-source framework that simplifies working with cloud resources using familiar programming languages: C#, TypeScript, Java, Python, and Go […]