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Analyze AWS Microservices architecture to identify and address performance issues

Amazon Payment Services (APS) is a payment service provider in the Middle East and North Africa. With its secure and seamless payment experience, it empowers businesses to build their online presence. Amazon Payment Services is based on a broad and complex microservice based architecture that are dependent on multiple AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Compute […]

Real User Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch RUM and Amazon Managed Grafana

Real User Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch RUM and Amazon Managed Grafana

In today’s fast-paced digital world, users expect fast and reliable web experiences. Slow-loading pages, errors, and other performance issues can lead to lower engagement and conversion rates, ultimately hurting a business’s bottom line. That’s where Real User Monitoring (RUM) comes in. Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a crucial aspect of modern web application development, allowing developers and […]

Monitor your AWS resources on your mobile device with AWS Console Mobile Application

AWS customers are increasingly relying on AWS User Notifications to monitor and get real-time notifications about the AWS resources that are most important to them. The AWS Console Mobile Application can be configured as a notification delivery channel, where users can monitor AWS resources, get detailed resource notifications, diagnose issues, and take remedial actions, from […]

Accelerate troubleshooting with structured logs in Amazon CloudWatch

Accelerate troubleshooting with structured logs in Amazon CloudWatch

Troubleshooting often involves complex analysis across fragmented telemetry data. While alarms on metrics can signal high-level deviations, deeper context often resides in other areas such as log messages, which help uncover the root cause. This disjointed approach not only consumes time and effort, but also inflates telemetry costs. In this post, we’ll showcase how structured […]

Easily set up Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor provides near-continuous internet measurements for your internet traffic, including availability and performance metrics, tailored to your specific workload footprint on AWS. With Internet Monitor, you can get insights into average internet performance metrics over time, as well as get alerts for issues (health events). You’re notified about events that impact your […]

Multi-tenant monitoring across accounts and regions using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Multi-tenant monitoring across accounts and regions using Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

In this guest blog post, Nauman Noor (Managing Director), Fabio Dias (Cloud Developer), and Dylan Alibay (Cloud Developer) from the platform engineering team at State Street discuss their use of Amazon Managed Prometheus and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry to enable monitoring in a multi-tenant, multi-account, and multi-region environment. In the ever-evolving financial services landscape, State […]

Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Alarm Recommendations

Amazon CloudWatch is a foundational AWS service that provides you with actionable insights into your cloud resources and applications. With Amazon CloudWatch Metrics, you can gain better visibility into your infrastructure and large-scale application performance. You can set up alarms using Amazon CloudWatch Alarms for metrics emitted by AWS services or your applications. Identifying which metrics […]

How to centralize CloudWatch Alarms with Amazon EventBridge and AWS CloudFormation

Amazon CloudWatch lets customers collect monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and events, providing an easy way to monitor and receive notifications regarding their workload health and often integrate directly with other systems, such as JIRA Service Desk and ServiceNow. The CloudWatch alarms feature lets you monitor CloudWatch metrics and receive […]

Automate the creation of AWS Support cases using Amazon CloudWatch alarms and Amazon Bedrock

Automate the creation of AWS Support cases using Amazon CloudWatch alarms and Amazon Bedrock

For production applications, the Mean-Time-To-Recovery (MTTR) is critical. In line with this, AWS offers Business, Enterprise On-Ramp and Enterprise support plans where AWS customers can benefit from shorter response time for cases related to production and business critical workloads. However, without having an automated way to notify AWS support, creating a case is a manual […]

Observe your Azure and AWS workloads simultaneously with Amazon CloudWatch

Observe your Azure and AWS workloads simultaneously with Amazon CloudWatch

Overview Effective operation of cloud applications and services demands a strong focus on monitoring and observability. It’s critical for your teams to define, capture, and analyze metrics, ensuring operational visibility and extracting actionable insights from logs. In many companies, technical teams share integrated systems to monitor the services or infrastructure they manage. Shared observability systems […]