AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: Management Tools
Manage continuous compliance by using AWS Config Configuration Recorder resource type
AWS Config recently added support for configuration recorder as a resource type. The AWS::Config::ConfigurationRecorder resource is a configuration item (CI) for configuration recorder that tracks changes to the state of AWS Config configuration recorder (configuration recorder). You can use this CI to check if the state of the configuration recorder has changed (drifted), from its […]
Optimizing alarm lifecycle with Amazon CloudWatch Metrics Insights alarms
Do you have entire fleets of dynamically changing resources that you are struggling to easily monitor and set alarm on? Do you have a ton of dangling alarms that you are paying for and that is cluttering your view? Are you looking for a simplified way to create alarms that automatically adjusts to resources that […]
Increase visibility and governance on cloud with AWS Cloud Operations services – Part 2
Introduction This blog post is a continuation of Part 1. To recap, as your organization adopts AWS, you will likely leverage multi-account architectures to meet your requirements. We introduced some foundational patterns to prepare the environments for centralized operations and governance using AWS Cloud Operations services. In this blog (Part 2), we will show you […]
Increase visibility and governance on cloud with AWS Cloud Operations services – Part 1
Keywords: AWS Systems Manager, Best Practices, Customer Solutions, Management & Governance, Management Tools, Technical How-to, Amazon Quicksight, AWS Backup. Many customers are migrating to AWS to leverage cost reduction, boost staff productivity, improve operational resilience, and increase business agility. As they adopt AWS, they will leverage multi-account architectures to meet business, governance, security and operational […]
Automate migrated servers to automatically join an Active Directory domain using AWS Application Migration service and AWS Systems Manager
AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) simplifies and expedites your migration to AWS by automatically converting your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. The post-launch actions feature in MGN allow you to control and automate actions performed after your servers have been launched in AWS. You can use predefined […]
Migrating to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus with the Prometheus Operator
The Prometheus Operator allows cluster administrators to manage Prometheus clusters running in Kubernetes. It makes it easy to deploy and manage Prometheus via native Kubernetes components. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how you can deploy Prometheus via the Prometheus Operator, and how you can easily migrate your monitoring workloads to take advantage of […]
Enhance observability for Network Load Balancers using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor
Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor now provides internet performance and availability measurements for user traffic that accesses specific Network Load Balancers. Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor (Internet Monitor) now provides the ability to get internet performance and availability measurements for user traffic to specific Network Load Balancers (NLBs). This blog post describes how this new capability can […]
Use AWS Systems Manager for VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) operations management
A hybrid cloud strategy creates management and governance challenges for our customers. These challenges include maintaining consistent cloud security and compliance policies across hybrid VMC and cloud environments, 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. VMware […]
Best Practices for the Custom Lens Lifecycle: Measure and Improve
In this blog post, we present best practices and resources to help you build, validate, and improve an AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens. The AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens is a feature of the AWS Well-Architected Tool that lets you bring your own content and best practices complementing the existing Well-Architected Framework that allow you to assess […]
Best Practices for the Custom Lens Lifecycle: Plan and Implement
In this blog post, we will present best practices and resources that help you build, validate, and improve your own AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens, and roll it out across your whole organization. The AWS Well-Architected Custom Lens is a feature of the AWS Well-Architected Tool that lets you bring your own content and best practices to complement […]