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Category: Monitoring and observability

How to detect and monitor Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) access with AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch

How to detect and monitor Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) access with AWS CloudTrail and Amazon CloudWatch

While protection of data is critical, equally important is observing who accesses it.  AWS services allow you to control your data by determining where it’s stored, who has access, and how it’s secured. AWS CloudTrail provides an effective way to track data access activities.  You can detect access attempts, and identify potential unauthorized attempts. CloudTrail, […]

Detect and respond to security threats in near real-time using Amazon Managed Grafana

Security is “job zero” at AWS. It’s crucial to gain deeper insights into your AWS infrastructure’s security posture to respond quickly to threats. The ability to centrally monitor and visualize the security findings make it easier for you to identify any security threats or gaps and also keep the principle of least privilege in focus. […]

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2024 Monitoring and Observability

Planning to join us in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6 at AWS re:Invent 2024 and looking to learn more about monitoring and observability? If you are, this blog highlights Cloud Operations sessions that focus on monitoring and observability at re:Invent 2024! Monitoring and Observability allows you to understand the health of your applications and […]

How Cigna Implemented a Multi-Region Centralized Alerting System on AWS

This post is co-written with Nicolas Trettel, Cloud Engineering Senior Advisor at Cigna. Monitoring applications and alerting on issues is crucial for building resilient systems. Amazon CloudWatch is a service that monitors applications, responds to performance changes, optimizes resource use, and provides insights into operational health. By collecting data across AWS resources, CloudWatch gives visibility […]

How Stripe architected massive scale observability solution on AWS

This post is co-written with Cody Rioux, Staff Engineer at Stripe and Michael Cowgill, Staff engineer at Stripe Stripe powers online and in-person payment processing and provides financial solutions for businesses of all sizes. Stripe operates a sophisticated microservice environment built on top of AWS. In this blog post we will cover the journey and […]

Sign-in to AWS Console Mobile Application with an AWS Access Portal or third-party IdP URL

AWS customers rely on the AWS Console Mobile Application to monitor, manage, and receive notifications to stay informed about their AWS resources while away from their desktop devices. Customers who use Single-Sign-On (SSO) can face a unique set of challenges while signing into the AWS Console Mobile Application. While SSO can offer enhanced security and […]

Title image that says managing access to AWS accounts from Microsoft Teams and Slack at scale using AWS Organizations and AWS Chatbot

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]