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Exploring AWS Config data using Amazon Athena and Amazon Managed Grafana
This post is co-written with Jacob Rickerd, Principal Security Engineer at Attentive. The post walks through an example dashboard that Attentive, an AI-powered mobile marketing platform, uses for resource inventory, serving as a starting point for you to build comprehensive dashboards tailored to your environment and tag policies. Attentive is the AI-powered SMS and email […]
Enable cloud operations workflows with generative AI using Agents for Amazon Bedrock and Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible […]
Visualize AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager information using Amazon QuickSight
In this blog post, learn how to build an Amazon QuickSight dashboard to visualize critical patch and inventory information to speed up MTTR. Also, you can use filters to search for a specific AWS Account, specific AWS Region, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) name, or check installed/missed packages. You want to visualize system patching […]
Assess Resilience at Scale by using Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Resilience Hub
AWS Resilience Hub helps you to manage and improve the resilience posture of your applications on AWS. It enables you to define your resilience goals, assess your resilience posture against those goals, and implement recommendations for improvement based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This benefits individual teams that want to assess their applications. However, for […]
Augmenting mainframe data with IBM MQ and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka
Introduction In this post, we explore the approach of integrating mainframe IBM MQ with Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK), to migrate your applications into a cloud-based consumer model. Amazon MSK is a fully managed Apache Kafka service from AWS that makes it simpler to set up and operate Kafka in the cloud. […]
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 […]
Achieve domain consistency in event-driven architectures
Application modernization is an important and growing migration strategy for many businesses. Most applications begin as a monolith, focusing on a specific business use case. As businesses grow, so does the complexity and number of business use-cases that their monoliths must support. This causes monolith application components to be tightly coupled and less cohesive, making […]
Increase visibility and governance on cloud with AWS Cloud Operations services – Part 2
Introduction This blog post is a continuation of Part 1. To recap, as your organization adopts AWS, you will likely leverage multi-account architectures to meet your requirements. We introduced some foundational patterns to prepare the environments for centralized operations and governance using AWS Cloud Operations services. In this blog (Part 2), we will show you […]
Centralizing configuration management using AWS Systems Manager
In this guest post, Kaitlyn Fedorak (Engineer) and contributors, Cody Olsen (Senior Engineer), Will Scott (Engineer), Samuel Raghunandan (Engineer), from Xero discuss their use of AWS Systems Manager Inventory and State Manager for configuration management of Amazon EC2 instances. Any team or company can leverage a similar design described in this post to save on […]
Report and visualize your AWS Service Catalog estate
AWS Service Catalog allows organizations to create and manage catalog of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. In addition, organizations can centrally manage deployed IT services, applications, resources, and metadata. This helps you […]