Category: Management & Governance

We are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of the integration between AWS Control Tower and AWS Security Hub. With this GA release, AWS Control Tower can detect control operations performed on the Security Hub detective controls from the Security Hub service. This includes the ability to detect if Security Hub controls enabled via […]

Learn with Shree and Jim about the newly released Amazon CloudWatch Logs Live Tail.

AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager helps AWS customers manage and automate the process of patching their Linux and Windows managed nodes in AWS and hybrid environments. It provides various options and allows greater control over which patches are approved or rejected during installation using patch baselines. One parameter of patch baseline approval rules is the Auto […]

In January 2022, AWS announced general availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake, a managed audit and security lake that allows you to aggregate, immutably store and query activity logs for auditing, security investigation and operational troubleshooting. Since launch, thousands of customers have adopted this feature. We are excited to announce that CloudTrail Lake dashboards are now […]

AWS Config is a service that tracks configuration changes of AWS resources in your AWS account. AWS Config uses the configuration recorder to detect these changes and then captures them as configuration items. The configuration recorder is created and started in each Region where you set up AWS Config. By default, the configuration recorder records […]

ServiceNow is a popular cloud-based IT Service Management (ITSM) platform. Organizations use ServiceNow to manage incidents, track scheduled and planned infrastructure changes, manage new service requests and track configuration items across IT systems. Common questions I’ve had from customers include how they can use ServiceNow to provision new instances. Or, how to use ServiceNow to […]

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics offers an automated approach to monitoring the performance and availability of your application endpoints, REST APIs, and website content, allowing you to discover issues before your customers do. As your applications and suite of accompanying canaries grows over time, it becomes more challenging and time consuming to manage them at scale. This […]

Operations teams create and use procedures to respond to operational events and need to ensure their effectiveness to support business needs. Everything continues to change—your business context, business priorities, and customer needs. It’s important to design operations to support changes over time in response to business iteration, and to incorporate lessons learned to minimize failures and […]

A full conference pass is $1,099. Register today with the code secure150off to receive a limited time $150 discount, while supplies last. AWS re:Inforce is just around the corner and this post covers sessions on cloud governance, risk management, and compliance that you should add to your agenda. AWS re:Inforce is a security learning conference […]

Today millions of internet users access applications hosted globally across 167,000 cities served by over 74,000 autonomous systems (ASNs). Tracking constantly changing network routes can be a daunting task for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs), application developers, network operators, systems engineers, and cloud solutions architects. With Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor, teams can quickly identify the network […]