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Category: AWS Systems Manager
Improved web application load time with AWS Systems Manager port forwarding sessions
Shree studies improved web application load time with AWS Systems Manager port forwarding sessions.
Improve governance and business agility using AWS Management and Governance videos – part 2
This blog post highlights newly published videos on the AWS Management and Governance YouTube channel that help you enable, provision, and operate your AWS environments effectively. The first part of this blog series was published last spring. The objective of these video-based, hands-on solutions is to enable you to innovate faster while maintaining control over […]
Using AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter and AWS Config for compliance monitoring
In this post, I show how AWS Systems Manager OpsCenter can be used to centrally record and mitigate alerts from AWS Config. When AWS Config detects a resource that is out of compliance, an OpsItem is created. This OpsItem is used to track details of the noncompliant resource, record investigative actions, and provide access to […]
Use AWS Systems Manager Explorer to optimize your compute resources across your AWS Organizations
As a solutions architect with AWS, I work with customers to right-size their Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances to achieve a balance between performance and cost. Optimization is an iterative task that involves several cycles of making changes, analyzing results, and repeating until you reach a satisfactory state. You need to understand the details […]
Bring your own CLI to Session Manager with configurable shell profiles
In keeping with the principle that identity is the new perimeter, AWS Systems Manager Session Manager provides a mechanism for authenticated and authorized AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals to gain data-plane shell access to Amazon EC2 instances, without setting up a traditional SSH pathway for access. It has become an indispensable tool for […]
Use AWS License Manager API operations to manage your software licenses in the cloud
Learn with Shree on how to use AWS License Manager public API operations to manage your software licenses in the cloud.
Deploying application configuration to serverless: Introducing the AWS AppConfig Lambda extension
At AWS, we feel strongly that separating application configuration from application code is a best practice. Being able to deploy configuration independently from code makes it possible to build services like Service Quotas and launch new services and features right as we announce them. If we didn’t separate these, even a simple configuration change would […]
Automated configuration of Session Manager without an internet gateway
Session Manager is a fully managed AWS Systems Manager capability that you can use to manage your Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, on-premises instances, and virtual machines (VMs) through an interactive one-click browser-based shell or through the AWS CLI. Session Manager also provides secure and auditable instance management without the need to open […]
How BBVA USA delivered security and governance at scale using management tools
As BBVA USA began its digital transformation journey, the security operations team had to improve its processes around provisioning and baselining of AWS accounts. The demand for new AWS accounts continued to increase from multiple application teams within the bank. In an effort to standardize new accounts within the enterprise, BBVA USA built an automated […]
Automating Amazon CloudWatch Alarms with AWS Systems Manager
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service built for DevOps engineers, developers, Site Reliability Engineers (SRE), and IT managers. CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. Are you looking for an automated way […]