Tag: Amazon CloudWatch

AWS customers are deploying Amazon WorkSpaces at scale in medium and large organizations. For example, health care company Johnson & Johnson is using WorkSpaces to realize the long-promised security and efficacy benefits of virtual desktops, in a world populated by a diverse workforce that would like to use their own computing devices if possible (also […]

Many organizations collect, store, and analyze network flow logs. They use this information to troubleshoot connectivity and security issues, and to make sure that network access rules are working as expected. Up until now, AWS customers collected this data by installing agents on their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Doing so imposed some […]

My colleague Sivakanth Mundru sent me a guest post with CloudTrail and CloudWatch integration news, along with information about a new CloudFormation template to help you to get going more quickly. — Jeff; At re: Invent 2014, we launched AWS CloudTrail integration with Amazon CloudWatch Logs in the US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Ireland), and […]

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable Domain Name Service (DNS) web service. In a nutshell, it translates symbolic names such as thinkwithwp.com into numerical IP addresses like 176.32.100.36. Today we are making Route 53 even more useful with the addition of four new features: Tagging of domains and hosted zones. API logging […]

An important rule when building a highly available and highly reliable system is to design for failure. In other words, your design model should assume that, as Amazon CTO Werner Vogels has said, “everything fails all the time.” Fortunately, modern data centers, networks, and servers are highly reliable, and failures are the exception rather than […]

As you may know, AWS CloudTrail records API activity in your AWS account and delivers a log file with the recorded API activity to a designated S3 bucket (see my post, AWS CloudTrail – Capture AWS API Activity, for more info). Earlier this year we announced CloudWatch Logs and gave you the ability to store […]

Earlier this year, we launched a log storage and monitoring feature for Amazon CloudWatch. As a quick recap, this feature allows you to upload log files from your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances to CloudWatch, where they are stored durably and easily monitored for specific symbols or messages. The EC2Config service runs on […]

When you move from a static operating environment to a dynamically scaled, cloud-powered environment, you need to take a fresh look at your model for capturing, storing, and analyzing the log files produced by your operating system and your applications. Because instances come and go, storing them locally for the long term is simply not […]