Category: Management & Governance

Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers struggle to keep cloud costs under control while allowing employees to innovate and develop their AWS skills. We talk to technology leaders every day who rank controlling cloud spend among their top concerns. Those same leaders don’t want to stifle innovation or restrict employee’s ability to learn AWS. Using […]

AWS Cost Anomaly Detection uses advanced Machine Learning to identify anomalous spend and root causes, empowering the customers to take action quickly. Currently, in order to view the AWS Cost Anomalies in AWS Cost Explorer, it requires the user to have IAM user access privileges on the AWS Management Console. The ability to centrally monitor and […]

In the first post of this two-part series, we highlighted how Life Sciences customers can implement a controlled change management process using AWS Systems Manager Change Manager and AWS Config. The solution in our first post, highlighted how a you can follow your Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) by implementing approval steps in order to make […]

AWS Config is a service that allows you to evaluate your AWS resources against a desired configuration state using AWS Config Rules. Two types of rules exist, managed rules which are meant to be used out-of-the-box and custom rules for which you define your desired configuration state via code.  AWS Audit Manager can help you […]

AWS Resilience Hub is an AWS service designed to help you define, track, and manage the resilience of your applications. This service helps you understand and improve the resilience of your workloads using AWS Well-Architected best practices, and offers both resilience and operational recommendations to enable you, the customer, to consistently meet your organizational and workload-based requirements […]

Enabling effective governance in a multi-account environment and aligning with AWS best practices and common compliance frameworks can be a complex endeavor. Many customers, particularly those operating in regulated industries, face the challenge of investing time and resources in identifying risks and developing their own controls to address service relationships and dependencies. This process can […]

As customers deploy cloud-based solutions, they need to be able to ensure that systems are running smoothly, and that they can quickly remediate issues when they arise. Deploying observability at scale can be challenging for customers, especially when it involves tens and hundreds of services across their enterprise. Customers want best practice recommendations, guidance in […]

Organizations rely heavily on cloud-based data processing and analytics platforms in today’s data-driven world to unlock valuable insights and make informed decisions. Databricks, a unified analytics platform, has emerged as a popular choice due to its seamless integration with Apache Spark, and its ability to efficiently handle large-scale data processing tasks. Many customers have implemented […]

Observability helps you understand the health, usage, performance, and customer experience for your workloads. Observability can support many use cases, from detecting incidents and supporting incident resolution, to understanding the impact of new features on your users and workflow. Establishing the right solution depends on being able to gather the right data for your situation. […]

Does your organization have custom configuration requirements for your resources? Do you find it challenging to compare actual resource configuration settings against your configuration requirements? Today, you can leverage a new public repository of sample AWS Config custom rules using AWS CloudFormation Guard to help you address these challenges. AWS Config allows you to evaluate actual […]