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Create event-driven workflow with AWS Resource Groups lifecycle events

AWS Resource Groups recently announced a new feature that pushes group lifecycle changes to Amazon EventBridge. A resource group is a collection of AWS resources, in the same AWS Region, that are grouped either using a tag-based query, or AWS CloudFormation stack-based query, and group lifecycle events make it easier for AWS customers to receive […]

Simplifying Self Service with AWS Service Catalog Principal Name Sharing

Many of our customers use AWS Service Catalog for governance of their infrastructure as code (IaC) templates and self-service provisioning for a variety of use cases, from customizing multi-account environments to launching data science and development workloads. The self-service use case becomes very appealing when customer need to scale across an organization with tens to […]

How to use the AWS Resilience Hub score

Time to read 10 minutes Time to complete 1 hour Cost to complete $15 per day (WordPress Multi-AZ application, AWS ResilienceHub Application and recommendations Learning level 200 – Intermediate Services used AWS ResilienceHub, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon CloudWatch, AWS Fault Injection Simulator AWS Resilience Hub provides a central place to define, validate, and track the resiliency […]

Viewing collectd statistics with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus and Amazon Managed Service for Grafana

Monitoring systems are essential for a resilient solution. A popular tool to monitor Linux-based physical or virtual machines is collectd – a daemon to collect system and application performance metrics periodically. However, collectd doesn’t provide long-term storage for metrics, rich querying, visualization, or an alerting solution. The Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a serverless […]

Four ways to retrieve any AWS service property using AWS CloudFormation (Part 1 of 3)

Many of you have experience using AWS CloudFormation to automate your application deployments. As you probably know, the service supports around 600 types of resources. When you optimize your templates, you might have discovered that each of those resource types encapsulates native AWS SDK API calls to create or update each resource’s state or configuration. You […]