Tag: DevOps

AWS Service Catalog (Service Catalog) is a powerful tool that empowers organizations to manage and govern approved services and resources. It significantly benefits platform engineering by standardizing environments, accelerating service delivery, and enhancing security. With its automated provisioning and resource management, Service Catalog supports infrastructure as code, enabling scalable, reliable deployments. Platform engineering teams are […]

ChatOps is a collaborative approach to operations that integrates chat platforms with automation tools and processes. It’s a way to bring together people, tools, and processes in a single chat interface to facilitate communication, collaboration, and execution of tasks within a team or organization. It is critical for an Operations team to act quickly and […]

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 […]

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.

Striking a Balance Between Reliability and Agility in Cloud Operations The IT operation team of an enterprise serves as the first line of defense against potential business disruptions. They operate 24/7, acts as a hub, continuously monitor and manage the IT environment. The operation team handles and prioritizes critical IT incidents to minimize downtime and […]

Imagine a world where software developers build applications quickly on the cloud, focusing on innovative features, unburdened by complex infrastructure and intricate configurations. Welcome to the era of the cloud platform team. Cloud platform teams build internal tools, automation, and self-service infrastructure to free developers from commodity tasks and enable them to innovate faster. However, […]

As a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider, you can benefit from a SaaS operating model in a number of ways. One of the most impactful benefits you can realize is improvements to your operational efficiency, and one of the fundamental techniques you can leverage is to maintain a single software version for all your […]

AWS Mainframe Modernization service supports AWS CloudFormation templates to manage environments and applications, allowing customers to leverage best practices of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and DevOps. This post defines the architectural improvements fostered by CloudFormation for mainframe applications modernized with AWS cloud. We’ll then cover the benefits of IaC in specific contexts for modernized mainframe applications. We’ll […]

Amazon CloudWatch Synthetics offers an automated approach to monitoring the performance and availability of your application endpoints, REST APIs, and website content, allowing you to discover issues before your customers do. As your applications and suite of accompanying canaries grows over time, it becomes more challenging and time consuming to manage them at scale. This […]

There are many benefits to using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), but as you grow your infrastructure or your IaC coverage, the number of components and their dependencies can become increasingly more complex. In this post we will walk through strategies to address this complexity. CloudFormation has built-in support for defining dependencies across resources in your […]