AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Tag: Customer Success

Continuous permissions rightsizing to ensure least privileges in AWS using CloudKnox and AWS Config

This blog post was contributed by Kanishk Mahajan, AWS and Maya Neelakandhan, CloudKnox As you migrate your workloads to the cloud or operate your existing workloads in the cloud it would be ideal if every application was deployed with the exact permissions that it required. In practice, however, the effort required to determine the precise […]

Visualizing AWS Config data using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight

In this guest post, Henrik André Olsen, Solutions Architect, discusses how he visualized AWS Config data in Amazon QuickSight dashboards with a high value for the Danish insurance company Topdanmark.  If you are an AWS Config user, you are probably already familiar with how to use the AWS Config console to access data, but it’s […]

How BBVA automated responses through event management at scale

In this blog post, we describe how BBVA USA, a financial institution that ranks among the top 25 largest commercial banks, used AWS services to implement event management at scale and centralize its event response. Generally speaking, security compliance in a monolithic environment is easier to monitor and enforce when a small number of hands […]

Software Deployment to Amazon WorkSpaces Using AWS Systems Manager

Amazon WorkSpaces is a fully managed virtual desktop environment that runs on AWS. It provides users with desktop cloud-based Microsoft Windows and Linux solutions that can be customized and configured to run seamlessly with your organization. In this blog post, I show you how to install software onto a running WorkSpace using AWS Systems Manager, […]

How BBVA USA delivered security and governance at scale using management tools

As BBVA USA began its digital transformation journey, the security operations team had to improve its processes around provisioning and baselining of AWS accounts. The demand for new AWS accounts continued to increase from multiple application teams within the bank. In an effort to standardize new accounts within the enterprise, BBVA USA built an automated […]

This diagram shows how AWS Config continuously tracks the state of resources in your account. When changes are detected, AWS Config tracks records those changes and maintains a history. Those changes and history are delivered to an s3 bucket and can be later accessed via the console or the API. If a rule is deployed to evaluate the resource, it can be triggered automatically. The evaluation results can be displayed on the console or accessed via the AWS Config API.

Using AWS Config for security analysis and resource administration

This blog post is a collaboration between Snehal Nahar, Technical Account Manager at AWS and Howard Zeemer, Manager of Operational Tools and Automation at LendingTree In this post, we will discuss how Lending Tree is using AWS Config for resource administration and security analysis. LendingTree empowers consumers to shop for financial services, comparing multiple offers […]

AWS Config for resource housekeeping and cost optimization

This guest blog post is contributed by Bradley Segobiano, a Lead Software engineer at Genesys. Bradley works with the DevOps team and helps developer teams build and run a stable and highly available application platform. The elasticity Cloud Computing provides is a powerful enabler of innovation. But as new infrastructure is deployed, it is important […]

New architecture used by FireEye using EMF log format

Lowering costs and focusing on our customers with Amazon CloudWatch embedded custom metrics

This post was authored by Martin Holste, CTO for Cloud at FireEye. Amazon CloudWatch provides a mechanism to publish metrics through logs using a format called Embedded Metric Format (EMF). You can use this to ingest complex application metric data to CloudWatch along with other log data. Although you can use this feature in all […]

One-Click access to servers and VMs with Session Manager and MontyCloud

IT administrators and DevOps engineers often perform routine operations to manage their cloud infrastructure, modern on-premises environment workloads, and applications. One such routine operation is the ability to manage Amazon EC2 instances, on-premises instances, and virtual machines (VM) through a remote session. Several tasks such as application and server log reviews, fine-tune configurations, or aborting […]