AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Centralized monitoring and alerting for AWS Systems Manager Agent status on managed nodes across AWS Organization
Has the AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent) running on your critical servers on-premises or on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) lost healthy connection to AWS Systems Manager (SSM) for some reason and you wanted to be proactively notified when this happens? Do you wish to improve observability of your SSM Agent status and […]
Analyzing your custom metrics spend contributors in Amazon CloudWatch
With an ever-growing volume of custom metrics in Amazon CloudWatch, customers often find it difficult to understand and manage their spend on this service. One of the most common questions they have is how to identify which metrics contribute the most to their spend in CloudWatch. This blog post introduces a solution that lets you […]
Enhanced dashboard, latency suggestions in Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor
Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor provides near-continuous internet measurements for your internet traffic, including availability and performance metrics, tailored to your specific workload footprint on AWS. With Internet Monitor, you can get insights into average internet performance metrics over time, as well as get alerts for issues (health events). You’re notified about events that impact your end […]
Bootstrap your chaos engineering journey with AWS Fault Injection Service Scenarios Library
Ensuring the reliability and resilience of applications is crucial for maintaining business continuity, delivering a superior customer experience, and staying compliant with industry regulations. As defined in the AWS Well-Architected Framework Reliability Pillar, testing reliability plays an important role in ensuring reliability. Chaos engineering is a powerful way to not only test how your systems […]
Managing access to AWS accounts from Microsoft Teams and Slack at scale using AWS Organizations and AWS Chatbot
Customers use chat collaboration applications like Microsoft Teams and Slack to collaborate and manage their AWS applications. AWS Chatbot is a ChatOps service that enables customers to monitor, troubleshoot issues, and manage AWS applications from chat channels. AWS Chatbot provides autonomy and customizability to DevOps teams operating their AWS environments on the go from chat […]
Accelerating migrations and IT Tasks for DKB using AWS Systems Manager
Deutsche Kreditbank AG (DKB), one of Germany’s largest direct banks with over five million customers. In 2023, DKB migrated their back-office IT infrastructure to Amazon Web Services (AWS). This Included their diverse infrastructure, backup, networking, and both Windows and Linux servers, while managing risks like downtime, data integrity, and security vulnerabilities. Customers in regulated industries […]
Centrally detect and investigate security findings with AWS Organizations integrations
Detecting security risks and investigating the corresponding findings is essential for protecting your AWS environment from potential threats, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and resources for your business needs. AWS provides a range of governance and security services such as AWS Organizations, AWS Control Tower, and AWS Config along with many others, […]
Automating metrics collection on Amazon EKS with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus managed scrapers
Managing and operating monitoring systems for containerized applications can be a significant operational burden for customers such as metrics collection. As container environments scale, customers have to split metric collection across multiple collectors, right-size the collectors to handle peak loads, and continuously manage, patch, secure, and operationalize these collectors. This overhead can detract from an […]
Ingesting administrative logs from Microsoft Azure to AWS CloudTrail Lake
In January 2023, AWS announced the support of ingestion for activity events from non-AWS sources using CloudTrail Lake. Making CloudTrail Lake a single location of immutable user and API activity events for auditing and security investigations. AWS CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing user and API activity on […]
Enable cloud operations workflows with generative AI using Agents for Amazon Bedrock and Amazon CloudWatch Logs
Amazon Bedrock is a fully managed service that offers a choice of high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies like AI21 Labs, Anthropic, Cohere, Meta, Mistral AI, Stability AI, and Amazon through a single API, along with a broad set of capabilities you need to build generative AI applications with security, privacy, and responsible […]