Category: Management & Governance

If you’ve authored private resource types to extend the AWS CloudFormation registry, you might have used Java, Python, or Go, which, until now, were our officially supported languages. In this blog post, we will show you how to create a private resource type using TypeScript, the latest addition to our growing list of officially supported […]

In this blog post, I show you how to set up public holidays calendars using AWS Systems Manager Change Calendar and suspend your AWS CodePipeline pipelines during the critical holidays in these calendar events. For example, let’s say an application release pipeline in your AWS account builds and deploys a new version of the application […]

AWS License Manager makes it easier to manage your software licenses across AWS and on-premises environments. AWS License Manager lets administrators create customized licensing rules that emulate the terms of their licensing agreements, apply these rules to keep track of licenses used, and control whether an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance should be […]

As customers add more applications, the number of APIs and webpages increase exponentially. The new multi-step HTTP monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics offers visibility and helps you proactively solve problems. It helps engineering teams monitor their APIs 24/7 using flexible scripts so that they can maintain SLA compliance. In this post, we show you how […]

AWS Config is a powerful service you can use to track infrastructure resources and simplify compliance. AWS Config continuously monitors and records your resource configurations. It also allows you to use AWS Config rules to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired state. You can use its remediation actions to address noncompliant resources and […]

In part 1 of this series, I cover how to customize Amazon CloudWatch alarm notifications using CloudWatch Events rule. For more information, see the Customize Amazon CloudWatch alarm notifications to your local time zone – Part 1 blog post. In this part, I walk through the process of using Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) […]

This two-part series discusses how to customize Amazon CloudWatch alarm notifications to your local time zone. Part 1 covers customizing using CloudWatch Events rule. Part 2 covers customizing using Amazon SNS. You can use Amazon CloudWatch to set alarms and automate actions based on predefined thresholds or machine learning algorithms that identify anomalous behavior in […]

When customers migrate workloads to the cloud, they can often substantially reduce costs by using their existing software licenses. AWS License Manager makes it possible for customers to allocate their existing licenses to their cloud-hosted workloads, enforce licensing rules to avoid falling out of compliance, and automate the tracking and management of the resources that […]

This is the first in a two-part series that covers lessons learned at AWS Managed Services (AMS) as we help customers and partners achieve operational excellence on AWS. To create a secure and consistent cloud operating model, you need both operational experience and AWS skills. In my conversations with customers, it is common for experienced […]

When customers migrate workloads to the cloud, they can often substantially reduce costs by using their existing software licenses. In most cases, this is as simple as reallocating licenses from their on-premises infrastructure to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Because software audits and true-ups are increasingly routine these days, customers must remain compliant […]