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Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus now offers VPC endpoint policy support

Today, Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus announces support for Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) endpoint policies. With VPC endpoint policy support, customers can now further control access to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus through restricting user access or allowable actions. Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that monitors and alarms on […]

How Organon used AWS Service Management Connector to provision AWS resources from Service Now across multiple AWS accounts.

Organon has been exploring Amazon Web Services (AWS) to provide a simple, efficient way to their end users to easily provision cloud infrastructure across multiple accounts and regions. Additionally, they needed to ensure security, management, governance and compliance on the AWS services to follow GxP regulations. Organon uses ServiceNow as the enterprise IT Service Management […]

Enhance Evidence Collection with AWS Config and Audit Manager

AWS Audit Manager is a fully-managed service that provides prebuilt frameworks for common industry standards and regulations, and that automates the continual collection of evidence to help you prepare for an audit. The continuous and automated gathering of evidence related to your AWS resource usage helps simplify risk assessment and compliance with regulations and industry […]

Monitor AWS Application Migration Service in Multiple Accounts and Regions

Customers commonly begin their journey to AWS by rehosting (lifting-and-shifting) servers in their on-premises environment. They do this for various business reasons, including shifting from capital to operational expense, reducing total cost of ownership, reducing support costs, data center exit, and many others. AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) is the automated lift-and-shift service that facilitates […]

How to use AWS Well-Architected with AWS Trusted Advisor to achieve data-driven cost optimization

Are you looking for ways to optimize your costs on AWS? Are you ensuring that you are taking advantage of all the cost-saving features and services that AWS offers? If not, you should be! In this blog post, we will discuss how to use AWS Well-Architected  and AWS Trusted Advisor to achieve data-driven insights that […]

Monitoring the status of Windows services with Amazon CloudWatch

When you have an application that relies on a specific Windows service being up and running, knowing the status of this service can be a useful part of your observability solution. This service status data can be displayed on dashboards, used to create alarms, or used to trigger automated resolutions. This post presents a solution […]

Scaling for performance with AWS Mainframe Modernization and Micro Focus

Mainframe applications often execute business critical functions which have to be resilient, scalable, and cost efficient. When migrating and modernizing these applications with AWS, it is important to design an application and infrastructure architecture meeting the performance requirements while optimizing the cost and satisfying availability and scalability needs. This applies to both online and batch […]

Automating centralized package management in AWS using AWS Systems Manager Distributor and AWS Systems Manager State Manager

This blog post was jointly contributed by Kanishk Mahajan, AWS and Dominic Medsker, Moody’s Customers routinely leverage 3rd party agent-based packages and vulnerability management tools, such as CrowdStrike, TrendMicro, and Tenable, to securetheir AWS environments. AWS supports distribution of third-party agents with AWS Systems Manager Distributor (Distributor). Distributor lets you package your own software or […]

Scale Operational Readiness Reviews with AWS Well-Architected Tool

In this blog post, learn how to scale out an operational readiness review (ORR) in your organization by using the AWS Well-Architected Tool (AWS WA Tool) and its Custom Lens capability. The AWS WA Tool ‘Custom Lens’ feature was launched in Nov 2021 and makes it a single place for you to review and measure best practices across your […]

Build EC2 Image Builder container images locally

EC2 Image Builder is a fully-managed AWS service that simplifies the creation, management, and deployment of golden server and container images. The images are built using an automation pipeline that is customizable for customers, enabling them to create images that are pre-installed and pre-configured with software and packages to meet specific IT requirements. The service […]