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Tag: Management and Governance

Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2024 Cloud Governance and Compliance

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6. At AWS re:Invent, cloud enthusiasts from all over the world will gather together to collaborate and learn from one another! You will have the opportunity to meet with AWS experts, […]

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 […]

Streamlining the Correction of Errors process using Amazon Bedrock

Generative AI can streamline the Correction of Errors process, saving time and resources. By using generative AI to leverage large language models, combined with the Correction of Errors process, businesses can expedite the identification and documentation of the cause of errors, while saving time and resources. Purpose and set-up The purpose of this blog is […]

Streamline change processes ­and improve governance with AWS Well-Architected

The AWS Well-Architected Framework (WA Framework) is designed to help cloud architects build secure, resilient, high-performing, and efficient workloads on AWS. It is structured around six pillars: Operational Excellence, Security, Reliability, Performance Efficiency, Cost Optimization, and Sustainability. Figure 1. The pillars of AWS Well-Architected Framework This post provides insights on how to streamline your change-management […]

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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 […]

How Merck Automated AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery Initialization and Monitoring

Blog is guest authored by Nasia Ullas of MSD. Enhancing the resilience and productivity of manufacturing processes is essential for pharmaceutical companies to meet business continuity objectives and innovate continuously. Merck & Co., Inc., also known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, a global bio-pharmaceutical company, mitigated resilience challenges by adopting AWS […]

Streamline Compliance Management with AWS Config custom rules and conformance packs

Streamline compliance management with AWS Config custom rules and conformance packs

In this blog post, we will show you how to manage your compliance controls with AWS Config custom rules (custom rules) written in AWS CloudFormation Guard (cfn-guard) domain-specific language (DSL) with use of conformance packs. AWS CloudFormation Guard, the language used to write custom policy rules is an open-source domain-specific language (DSL) and command line […]

Elevating Your AWS Observability: Unlocking the Power of Amazon CloudWatch Alarms

Organizations commonly leverage AWS services to enhance the observability and operational excellence of their workloads. However, often it is unclear the actions that teams should take when observability metrics are delivered to them, it can be difficult to understand which metrics need action to remediate and which ones are simply noise. For example, if an […]

Automate your Multicloud operations with AWS Systems Manager and AWS Lambda

A multicloud strategy presents various challenges, including observing and managing applications and infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms. Maintaining consistent tooling for visualizing operational data and automating actions helps organizations address this challenge. Amazon CloudWatch and AWS Systems Manager are two services that provide unified monitoring, observability, and automation capabilities for workloads deployed on AWS, on-premises, […]

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How to perform Failover and Failback using AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery (AWS DRS) between VMware and AWS environments

Enterprises face a variety of threats such as natural disasters, cyber-attacks and technology failures that could severely disrupt operations. A comprehensive disaster recovery plan is crucial to quickly respond and recover from these events. In this blog post, we’ll show how to plan and implement a comprehensive disaster recovery solution between your VMware on-premises environment […]