AWS Management Tools Blog

(Note: This post was updated November 19, 2018) Introduction To help customers integrate provisioning secure, compliant, and pre-approved AWS products into their ServiceNow service catalog/portal, AWS created the AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow. AWS Service Catalog Connector for ServiceNow synchronizes AWS Service Catalog portfolios and products with the ServiceNow Service Catalog to enable ServiceNow users […]

In this blog post, I’ll show you how to dynamically constrain AWS Service Catalog product parameter options for AWS Service Catalog end users based on specific tag values.

AWS Systems Manager Inventory collects metadata from Amazon EC2 instances and on-premises instances. AWS Systems Manager Inventory integrates with AWS Config to record inventory data for historical views, change tracking, or auditing. When you use AWS Config recording for systems inventory data you can enable scenarios such as tracking newly installed or removed software applications, […]

By Jeff Levine, AWS Solutions Architect AWS CloudFormation provides a common language for you to describe and provision all of the infrastructure resources in your cloud environment. You can specify run time parameters to customize your CloudFormation template’s operation. AWS provides some AWS-specific parameters types to make things easier. For example, if you use the […]

AWS Systems Manager Inventory provides an easy and secure way to collect metadata and insights from your managed instances. The service provides ready-to-use inventory gatherers for insights on installed applications, network configurations, file metadata, Windows updates, Windows services, Windows server roles/features, and Windows registry. In addition, you can use AWS Systems Manager Inventory to collect […]

In 2017 Kyle Somers explained how you can gain visibility into the execution of your AWS Lambda functions in his blog post announcing AWS CloudTrail data events for AWS Lambda. In my blog post, I’ll expand upon Kyle’s post to show you how you can combine CloudTrail data events for AWS Lambda with the power […]

Guest Post by Jakub Marciniak, Joseph Bulluss, Mariusz Borys, Thushyanth Sivananthan (DevOps Engineers @Infor), David Benjamin(Lead @Infor) and Martin Jarosinski(Manager @ Infor). ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— At Infor, in our effort for continual improvement, we were researching tools that would allow for more efficiency in our patching and overall system management. When the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities were […]

Throughout the life of your AWS OpsWorks for Chef Automate environments there will be numerous updates and changes to one of the most crucial components – the chef-client. How can you ensure that you have the most up-to-date version of chef-client running on your OpsWorks for Chef Automate infrastructure? Can you make these updates in […]

Some AWS customers I work with have dedicated analytics/AI research teams who use AWS infrastructure to run their own code or use products from the AWS Marketplace to perform computations. Typically, the AI research team deploys multiple solutions. They bundle their own home-grown solutions into an AWS CloudFormation template along with some AWS Marketplace products, […]

This blog was contributed by Helen Lin, Sr. Product Manager for Amazon CloudWatch and Darryl S. Osborne,  Storage Specialist Solutions Architect Today, we’re releasing a new feature in Amazon CloudWatch called Metric Math that makes it easy to perform math analytics on your metrics to derive additional insights into the health and performance of your AWS […]