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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 […]

AWS Systems Manager Session Manager provides a more secure way to manage your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances without the need to open inbound ports, maintain bastion hosts, or manage SSH keys. Furthermore, you can use it with a combination of AWS services to give access to external third-parties. Due to business requirements, you […]

AWS Config is a service that tracks configuration changes of AWS resources in your AWS account.  AWS Config uses the configuration recorder to create a configuration item whenever it detects a change to a resource type that it is recording. For example, if AWS Config is recording Amazon S3 buckets, AWS Config creates a configuration […]

In part one, we identified different features of AWS Organizations requiring guidance and consideration when you move an account from one organization in Organizations to another. We focused on Organizations Polices, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) shares, and AWS global condition context keys. In part two of the series, we identified behavior and actions when you want […]

In part one, we identified different features of Organizations requiring guidance and consideration when you move an account from one organization in Organizations to another. We focused on Organizations Polices, AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM) shares, and AWS global condition context keys. In this post, part two of a three-part series, we identify behaviors […]

Operations Teams (Ops Teams) across enterprises typically rely on documented architecture diagrams to understand the dependencies of various workloads deployed on AWS. As enterprises continue to deploy large-scale multi-tiered workloads, it can become challenging for Ops Teams to track the ever changing relationships between the deployed resources, often meaning that documentation can’t keep up with […]

You might have heard the phrase “10,000 foot view” at some point during your career. This typically refers to having a broad, high-level understanding of a system or organization’s technology infrastructure and how all its components fit together. It is a way of looking at the big picture without getting bogged down in the details. […]

Building and managing resilient, micro-service based Containerized applications in a distributed environment is hard; maintaining and operating them is even harder. Even though containerized applications running on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) take advantage of the performance, scale, reliability, and availability of AWS infrastructure which, we need to understand that failures will occur and […]

Speed matters in business, and AWS customers want to move quickly and securely when they choose to innovate and develop on our platform. As customers scale their AWS footprint, a majority of them adopt a multi-account strategy to separate their workloads and better enable their teams to build rapidly. The AWS multi-account strategy provides guidance […]

AWS AppConfig, a capability of AWS System Manager, allows you to quickly and confidently deploy new features using feature flags, or update your software behavior using operational flags, in a safer and validated way. Feature flags help teams move faster by decoupling a deployment of code from the release of a feature. Code can be […]