What does this AWS Solutions Implementation do?
The AWS Ops Automator is built on a core framework that provides the infrastructure for task audit trails, logging, resource selection, scaling, AWS API retries, completion handing for long tasks, and concurrency handling.
The Ops Automator uses time-based, interval-based, or event-based triggers to start the task execution process. When the task execution process is triggered, the solution determines which tasks need to be executed, selects the applicable resources across accounts and regions, and executes the specified actions on those resources.
The solution is easy-to-deploy and features an extensive suite of actions you can use to automate the management of your resources.
AWS Solutions Implementation overview
The Ops Automator enables you to execute automated tasks on your AWS resources across accounts and regions. The diagram below presents the architecture you can automatically deploy using the solution’s implementation guide and accompanying AWS CloudFormation template
AWS Ops Automator architecture
This solution includes an AWS CloudFormation template that you deploy in a primary account that launches a set of microservices (AWS Lambda functions) that manage triggering events, resource selection, task execution, concurrency control, and completion; Amazon DynamoDB tables that store task-related data; Amazon CloudWatch for logging and metrics collection; Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) for event forwarding and notifications; Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) for logging; and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for task output.
The primary template also automatically generates additional AWS CloudFormation templates in an Amazon S3 bucket that allow you to create cross-account AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles to perform actions in secondary accounts, and to forward events. You can modify and build upon these templates to create custom actions that extend the solution’s functionality.
The solution also includes additional templates that you can use as a reference to configure and combine multiple task stacks to create end-to-end scenarios that handle complex tasks such as vertical scaling for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.
AWS Ops Automator
Version 2.1
Last updated: 10/2019
Author: AWS
Estimated deployment time: 15 min
Deployment resources
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Features
Cross-account and cross-region automation
Complex task execution
Flexibility
Extensive functionality
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