Category: Management & Governance

In this blog, we will discuss the strategies employed by cloud-mature enterprises, examine key pillars of cloud maturity, and contrast how mature and aspiring enterprises operate in these areas. You will leave here being able to answer this question, “What does a mature cloud organization look like?” The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a change in the […]

Full-stack observability at AWS includes AWS-native, Application Performance Monitoring (APM), and open-source solutions, giving you the ability to understand what is happening across your technology stack at any time. AWS Observability lets you collect, correlate, aggregate, and analyze telemetry in your network, infrastructure, and applications in the cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments so you can gain […]

A multicloud strategy creates management and governance challenges for our customers. These challenges include maintaining consistent cloud security and compliance policies across cloud providers, providing a single pane of glass for visualizing and acting on operational data, and providing deployment automation and control of cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud environments. AWS Cloud Operations services lets […]

Update 01/2024: In October 2023, AWS Systems Manager announced the ability to enable AWS Systems Manager by default for all EC2 instances in an organization using Systems Manager Quick Setup. You can begin utilizing the benefits of DHMC in just a few clicks from the Quick Setup console. For more information, see Default Host Management […]

As your business grows on Amazon Web Services (AWS), so too does the need to ensure your resources are optimized and following AWS best practices. AWS Trusted Advisor identifies ways to improve your AWS infrastructure across 5 unique pillars: Security, Performance, Cost Optimization, Fault Tolerance, and AWS Service Quotas. The AWS Support API allows customers […]

When you operate in the variable spend model of the Cloud, business growth can translate into a variable bill that reflects the activity of your workloads in your environment. For some customers, a monthly increase in their AWS bill is a normal part of growth, but for many, is an unwanted outcome. Therefore, it is […]

As you continue to run your business-critical workloads in hybrid environments, you’ll most likely face the challenges of license management of products, such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM due to limited visibility and governance. You’ll most likely eventually over-provision licenses to avoid the headache with third-party license providers or under-provisioning licenses, only to face […]

Event-driven architectures are gaining attention because they help organizations achieve benefits through the decoupling of services, increasing scalability, adding flexibility, and increasing developers’ agility. As companies grow over time, they need to find ways to integrate (couple) multiple processes and applications (which are usually owned by different teams.) Coupled applications work in certain scenarios where […]

Does your organization need to maintain visibility into operations in their AWS accounts for security and compliance? Do you need this visibility across multiple AWS accounts and geographic regions? Would you like predefined templates to help you get started with analyzing account activity quickly? Using AWS CloudTrail Lake and our newly announced public repository of […]

Written by Ran Isenberg, Principal Architect at CyberArk Feature flags are a powerful tool that allow you to change software behavior. In addition, feature flags can improve your CI/CD pipeline by enabling capabilities, such as A/B testing, thus making them an enabler of DevOps and a crucial part of any CI/CD pipeline. However, feature flagging […]