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Tag: Management and Governance
Measure Transformation through the Cloud Adoption lens
Introduction Business and technology teams often measure Digital Transformation and use a financial metric as the yardstick of success. This is an output focused approach, for example – if you migrate applications as-is to the cloud and reduce costs, businesses will approve more similar migrations. However, organizations need to take a comprehensive approach and include […]
Leveraging custom AWS Config rules to optimize cost saving on AWS
AWS Config assesses, audits, and evaluates the configurations and relationships of your resources in your AWS account. Why might we want to use this service for cost optimization? Well consider a scenario where we can be alerted if a specific Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance is deployed in the account. If a larger […]
Validate your Migration cutovers using predefined post-launch actions
Intro Migration involves a crucial step of validating that your applications perform as expected in the cloud, achieved through multiple checks or scripts run on migrated servers. Manual performance of these tasks is complex, time-consuming, and prone to errors, particularly when migrating servers or applications at scale. AWS Application Migration Services (AWS MGN) simplifies this […]
Audit and visualize ephemeral EC2 instances using AWS CloudTrail Lake as a zero-ETL data source in Amazon Athena
Today, we are happy to announce that AWS CloudTrail Lake data is now available for zero-ETL analysis in Amazon Athena. AWS CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing user and API activity on AWS for audit, security, and compliance purposes. CloudTrail Lake allows you to easily aggregate activity logs […]
Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2023 | AWS Management Console
New this year, the AWS Customer Experience team has tips to help you enhance your re:Invent experience and learn about various improvements that make AWS even easier to use. Meet us at our kiosks in the AWS Village and be sure to check out the sessions below. Our sessions will cover best practices for managing […]
Build a Cloud Automation Practice for Operational Excellence: Best Practices from AWS Managed Services
Introduction In today’s fast-paced business environment, organizations are actively pursuing operational excellence to maintain a competitive edge. Automation is a critical foundation for achieving better efficiency, reliability, and scalability in operations. However, integrating automation into cloud practice entails more than simply implementing software or tools. Building a cloud automation practice requires a transformative journey that […]
Creating a correction of errors document
This blog post will walk you through an example of creating a Correction of Errors (COE) document. At Amazon, operational excellence is in our DNA. One best practice that we have learned at Amazon is to have a standard mechanism for post-incident analysis. The COE process facilitates learning from an event to avoid reoccurrences in […]
Using Tag-Based Filtering to Manage AWS Health Monitoring and Alerting at Scale
AWS provides customers regular updates of service notifications and planned activities via e-mail to the root account owners or the operational, security and billing contacts. AWS also provides granular notifications to customers via AWS Health allowing them to fine-tune their alerts on issues relating directly to them. Alongside Health Dashboard’s monitoring capabilities, customers can also […]
Monitor IoT device health at scale with Amazon Managed Grafana
Businesses today employ IoT devices to monitor the health of their equipment, ranging from machines on a factory floor to inventory tracking sensor locations. Insights from these IoT device fleets make them part of critical business infrastructure, however deriving meaningful insights from these IoT device fleets at scale is a common challenge customers face. IT […]
AWS Health Events Intelligence Dashboards & Insights
Organizations operating mission-critical workloads on AWS, need the ability to analyze and respond to AWS service events in a timely manner to maintain operational excellence. AWS Health sends AWS Health events on behalf of other AWS services with three main categories: notifications on account administration and security, operational issues that affect AWS services, and scheduled […]