AWS Cloud Operations Blog

A multicloud strategy presents various challenges, including observing and managing applications and infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms. Maintaining consistent tooling for visualizing operational data and automating actions helps organizations address this challenge. Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Systems Manager are two services that provide unified monitoring, observability, and automation capabilities for workloads deployed on AWS, on-premises, […]

AWS Service Catalog lets you centrally manage your cloud resources to achieve governance at scale of your Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates. AWS Service Catalog supports AWS CloudFormation natively and allows customers to use other IaC such as Terraform Community and Terraform Cloud via Service Catalog reference engine. We often hear customers asking how to […]

Enterprises face a variety of threats such as natural disasters, cyber-attacks and technology failures that could severely disrupt operations. A comprehensive disaster recovery plan is crucial to quickly respond and recover from these events. In this blog post, we’ll show how to plan and implement a comprehensive disaster recovery solution between your VMware on-premises environment […]

In today’s digital landscape, customers have complex and distributed workloads running on AWS, involving a large number of AWS resources across multiple services. Tackling security risks across numerous resources can seem daunting, but with the right approach following best practices, can be addressed in a timely manner. AWS offers tools and services designed to help […]

Introduction Cloud migration is a transformative journey that unlocks new opportunities for businesses. However, this transition can be overwhelming, and it necessitates a phased approach that utilizes different migration strategies. Initially, applications that require minimal changes are migrated using lift and shift strategy. More complex monolithic applications, that require re-architecting or refactoring to leverage cloud-native capabilities, are […]

Earlier this year, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store launched a feature that now allows you to share advanced parameters with other AWS accounts, enabling you to centrally manage your configuration data in a multi-account environment. Today, many customers have workloads in multiple AWS accounts that require shared, synchronized configuration data. Now, you can maintain a […]

In this blog post, we will build a custom automation document for resolving the non-compliant resource status through  AWS Systems Manager Automation. Building an AWS Systems Manager (SSM) document using Amazon Q Developer involves creating a JSON or YAML document that defines the desired state of your managed instances in AWS. SSM documents are used […]

Today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of the Observability Matters on Amazon Web Services GameDay. AWS GameDay is a gamified learning event that challenges participants to use AWS solutions to solve real-world technical problems in a team-based setting. Unlike traditional workshops, GameDays are open-ended and non-prescriptive to give participants the freedom to explore and think outside […]

AWS Audit Manager introduced the AWS common controls library to help Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) teams efficiently map their enterprise controls into Audit Manager for evidence collection. The common controls library provides customers with a simpler way to collect evidence that supports overlapping controls across multiple compliance standards, streamlining the evidence collection process, reducing […]

AWS customers often operate hundreds of applications and have to monitor and manage individual resources to make sure their applications are available, secure, cost-optimized, and performing optimally. In this blog post, we will walk through how to use Terraform to create an application for use with myApplications, add resources to new and existing applications, and strategies for scaling application management using Terraform.