AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Your AWS journey, whether starting with a handful of accounts or scaling to thousands, requires a strong foundation. Think of it like building a skyscraper: the taller you plan to go, the stronger your base needs to be. As your organization grows, so do the challenges of managing multiple AWS accounts. Security policies, access controls, […]

AWS X-Ray is transitioning to OpenTelemetry as its primary instrumentation standard for application tracing. OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation solutions are recommended for producing traces from applications and sending them to AWS X-Ray. X-Ray’s existing console experience and functionality continuous to be fully supported and remains unchanged by this transition. OpenTelemetry is the industry-wide open-source standard for tracing […]

Indeed is the #1 job site¹ in the world. With 615 million Job Seeker Profiles², people in more than 60 countries across 28 languages come to Indeed to search for jobs, post resumes, and research companies. Over 3.3 million employers use Indeed to find and hire new employees. Supporting this massive scale requires resilient, well-architected […]

System impairments occur frequently in distributed cloud environments, making application resilience critical for customers. While traditional disaster recovery testing approaches are often manual and time-consuming, modern chaos engineering practices help validate your application’s ability to handle failures automatically. Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) simplifies application recovery across AWS Regions and availability zones by providing readiness […]

Introduction Efficient logging is crucial to building effective investigative and response workflows. Logs, metrics and traces offer critical value when investigating application issues, security events and debugging failures. Structured wide-event logs can provide a means to investigate application behaviour without requiring access to data stores. This level of verbosity in application logs increases the likelihood […]

AWS now provides immediate access to resource search capabilities through AWS Resource Explorer so that customers can discover resources across services in their AWS account. Operations like troubleshooting and problem resolution, making resource changes, investigating resource dependencies, identifying security risks and optimizing costs are critical everyday activities for the cloud operations team. With resource search, […]

If you’re attending AWS re:Invent with the goal of learning how to prevent costly downtime for your organization, you can look forward to more than 150 breakout sessions, workshops, chalk talks, builders’ sessions, and code talks that will help you improve the resilience of your critical applications. New this year, we’ll also be hosting two […]

AWS Control Tower is a service that simplifies the setup and governance of a secure, multi-account AWS environment. As part of its security features, AWS Control Tower creates an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic named aws-controltower-SecurityNotifications in each enrolled AWS account to handle security-related notifications. These notification topics are encrypted by default using disk […]

In today’s fast-paced IT environment, monitoring and visualizing patching compliance across your infrastructure is crucial. Traditionally, creating comprehensive patching dashboards in Amazon Quick Sight has been a manual, time-intensive process requiring multiple steps for each visual component. Amazon Quick Suite is an AI-powered assistant that enhances data analysis and visualization capabilities. This blog explores how […]

Introduction Salesforce Commerce Cloud empowers thousands of retailers worldwide to create seamless shopping experiences. Behind these experiences lies a complex infrastructure that demands reliable monitoring at scale. As the platform evolved from static, first-party instances to dynamic cloud-based environments, the monitoring needs outgrew the self-managed Prometheus solution. This post details Salesforce’s Commerce Cloud journey from […]