Category: Management & Governance

Observability helps you understand the health, usage, performance, and customer experience for your workloads. Observability can support many use cases, from detecting incidents and supporting incident resolution, to understanding the impact of new features on your users and workflow. Establishing the right solution depends on being able to gather the right data for your situation. […]

Does your organization have custom configuration requirements for your resources? Do you find it challenging to compare actual resource configuration settings against your configuration requirements? Today, you can leverage a new public repository of sample AWS Config custom rules using AWS CloudFormation Guard to help you address these challenges. AWS Config allows you to evaluate actual […]

AWS Control Tower Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) allows customers to provision and customize their account in AWS Control Tower using Terraform. AFT can also import existing AWS Control Tower managed accounts into AFT management, allowing you to manage the global and account-specific customization at scale using Terraform. We hear from customers that they want […]

AWS Config recently added support for configuration recorder as a resource type. The AWS::Config::ConfigurationRecorder resource is a configuration item (CI) for configuration recorder that tracks changes to the state of AWS Config configuration recorder (configuration recorder). You can use this CI to check if the state of the configuration recorder has changed (drifted), from its […]

Do you have entire fleets of dynamically changing resources that you are struggling to easily monitor and set alarm on? Do you have a ton of dangling alarms that you are paying for and that is cluttering your view? Are you looking for a simplified way to create alarms that automatically adjusts to resources that […]

AWS Application Migration Service (MGN) simplifies and expedites your migration to AWS by automatically converting your source servers from physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure to run natively on AWS. The post-launch actions feature in MGN allow you to control and automate actions performed after your servers have been launched in AWS. You can use predefined […]

A hybrid cloud strategy creates management and governance challenges for our customers. These challenges include maintaining consistent cloud security and compliance policies across hybrid VMC and cloud environments, providing a single pane of glass for visualizing and acting on operational data, and providing deployment automation and control of cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud environments. VMware […]

As customers accelerate their migrations to the cloud and transform their businesses, some find themselves in situations where they have to manage IT operations in a hybrid or multicloud environment. These customers are faced with additional complexity when it comes to operating their applications and infrastructure. They often must use solutions from multiple providers to […]

Today we are happy to announce the all-new AWS CDK Observability Accelerator – a set of opinionated modules to help you set up observability for your AWS environments with AWS Native services and AWS-managed observability services such as Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus, Amazon Managed Grafana, AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and Amazon CloudWatch. AWS […]

Service control policies (SCPs) are a set of policies that allow organizations to manage permissions using AWS Organizations. SCPs help control access to AWS services and resources provisioned across multiple accounts created within an organization. In addition, SCPs enable you to set up permission guardrails by defining the maximum available permissions for IAM principals in […]