AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: Amazon EventBridge
Discover application issues and get notifications with AWS X-Ray Insights
Today, AWS X-Ray is pleased to announce the general availability of Insights, a feature that helps you proactively detect performance issues in your applications. AWS X-Ray helps developers and DevOps engineers analyze and debug production environments and distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture. Using anomaly detection, X-Ray Insights determines if the […]
How to aggregate and visualize AWS Health events using AWS Organizations and Amazon Elasticsearch Service
September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. In this post, I show you how to aggregate AWS Health events centrally from all accounts in your organization using AWS Organizations, AWS Lambda, and AWS Health API, and then build automation to ingest and visualize the operations data using […]
Build a scheduler as a service with Amazon CloudWatch Events, Amazon EventBridge, and AWS Lambda
There are multiple ways to build a scheduler as a service in AWS. In this blog post, we provide step-by-step instructions for building a scheduler as a service with Amazon CloudWatch Events and Amazon EventBridge with AWS Lambda. We also demonstrate how to build a dynamic API scheduler using EventBridge and Lambda. CloudWatch Events deliver […]
How BBVA automated responses through event management at scale
In this blog post, we describe how BBVA USA, a financial institution that ranks among the top 25 largest commercial banks, used AWS services to implement event management at scale and centralize its event response. Generally speaking, security compliance in a monolithic environment is easier to monitor and enforce when a small number of hands […]
Using AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter and AWS Config for compliance monitoring
In this post, I show how AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter can be used to centrally record and mitigate alerts from AWS Config. When AWS Config detects a resource that is out of compliance, an OpsItem is created. This OpsItem is used to track details of the noncompliant resource, record investigative actions, and provide access to […]
Send real-time alerts about application anomalies using AWS X-Ray insights
Today AWS X-Ray launches support for notifications to its insights. This means that on an X-Ray group where insights are enabled, you can now configure notifications to be sent to Amazon EventBridge. Through the use of anomaly detection, AWS X-Ray helps you analyze and debug distributed applications. AWS X-Ray Insights uses anomaly detection to create actionable insights […]
How BBVA USA delivered security and governance at scale using management tools
As BBVA USA began its digital transformation journey, the security operations team had to improve its processes around provisioning and baselining of AWS accounts. The demand for new AWS accounts continued to increase from multiple application teams within the bank. In an effort to standardize new accounts within the enterprise, BBVA USA built an automated […]