AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Category: Announcements

AWS launches enhanced AWS Resource Explorer features for new resource insights

AWS launches enhanced AWS Resource Explorer features for new resource insights

Today, we are excited to announce a significant enhancement to AWS Resource Explorer that delivers a unified view of centralized resource insights and properties from AWS services. With the enhanced Resource Explorer experience, relevant data and insights from multiple AWS services is centralized for supported resource types. Customers use keyword-based search to return a list […]

Top Announcements for AWS Cloud Operations at re:Invent 2024

Figure 1. AWS launches new capabilities to help you transform your IT operations. At re:Invent 2024, Nandini Ramani, VP Search, Observability & Cloud Ops, provided a glimpse of how AWS is building the future of cloud operations. The four sections of this blog post cover the top AWS Cloud Operations announcements to help you transform […]

Monitor EBS Detailed Performance Statistics with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

Today we are excited to announce that you can now easily ingest Amazon EBS detailed performance statistics from your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) workloads into an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace. We recently announced the availability of EBS detailed performance statistics, which gives you real-time visibility into the performance of your EBS […]

Leveraging existing tagging strategies for Application Operations

Leveraging existing tagging strategies for Application Operations

Customers often spend time finding and managing individual resources within their applications. They need to find various applications, manage and perform application tasks, and monitor resources during different stages of the application lifecycle. Customers usually have hundreds to thousands of resources within even a single AWS account. This requires navigating across multiple AWS services pages […]

Introducing AWS Fault Injection Service Actions to Inject Chaos in Lambda functions

Usage of serverless technology in regulated industries like financial services is growing. This growth demands robust resilience validation. Chaos engineering for Serverless has become crucial for ensuring reliable and available serverless applications. By purposefully injecting failures and stresses into serverless components, teams can uncover hidden weaknesses and validate the fault tolerance of their systems. Previously, […]

Strengthen application resilience with myApplications and AWS Resilience Hub

Introduction Today, organizations prioritize managing their applications over infrastructure, focusing on business outcomes while leveraging automation and cloud services to handle the underlying infrastructure. They seek to consolidate key application metrics like health, security, cost, and performance from AWS services such as AWS Security Hub or Amazon CloudWatch. These organizations also need to ensure their […]

Support for Amazon CloudWatch Evidently ending soon

After careful consideration, we have made the decision to discontinue CloudWatch Evidently, effective 10/17/2025. Active customers will be able to use the service as normal until 10/17/2025, when support for the service will end. During this period, we will continue to provide critical security patches, but will no longer support any limit increase requests. On […]

AWS named as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

AWS has been named as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, previously known as Gartner Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Magic Quadrant. This report assesses vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Compared to the previous year, AWS has moved up higher on the Ability […]

Deploy AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup programmatically across your AWS Organization

AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup simplifies setting up AWS services, including Systems Manager, by automating common or recommended tasks in your AWS Organization across AWS accounts and Regions. These tasks include, creating required AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) instance profile roles and setting up operational best practices, such as periodic patch scans and inventory […]

AWS Mainframe Modernization now available in Terraform

Leveraging Infrastructure as Code for AWS Mainframe Modernization with Terraform AWS Mainframe Modernization service is a cloud-native platform to modernize, migrate, execute, and operate mainframe applications. In addition to analysis and transformation tools, it provides a fully-managed and resilient runtime environment making it easierto run and operate modernized applications. Starting today, you can define AWS Mainframe […]