AWS Cloud Operations & Migrations Blog

In this blog post, we will build a custom automation document for resolving the non-compliant resource status through  AWS Systems Manager Automation. Building an AWS Systems Manager (SSM) document using Amazon Q developer involves creating a JSON or YAML document that defines the desired state of your managed instances in AWS. SSM documents are used […]

Today, we’re pleased to announce the general availability of the Observability Matters on Amazon Web Services GameDay. AWS GameDay is a gamified learning event that challenges participants to use AWS solutions to solve real-world technical problems in a team-based setting. Unlike traditional workshops, GameDays are open-ended and non-prescriptive to give participants the freedom to explore and think outside […]

AWS Audit Manager introduced the AWS common controls library to help Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) teams efficiently map their enterprise controls into Audit Manager for evidence collection. The common controls library provides customers with a simpler way to collect evidence that supports overlapping controls across multiple compliance standards, streamlining the evidence collection process, reducing […]

AWS customers often operate hundreds of applications and have to monitor and manage individual resources to make sure their applications are available, secure, cost-optimized, and performing optimally. In this blog post, we will walk through how to use Terraform to create an application for use with myApplications, add resources to new and existing applications, and strategies for scaling application management using Terraform.

This post is co-authored with Andy Suarez and Kevin Breton (from KnowBe4). This blog post continues the discussion from Event-Driven Architecture using Amazon EventBridge – Part 1. The previous post covered the adoption and design of an event-driven architecture by KnowBe4, a leading security awareness training provider. In this post, we highlight the development and […]

Summary In this blog post, we explore an approach that leverages Windows operating system tools to extract critical metric data directly from Windows Servers. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), we offer the Migration Evaluator agentless collector and AWS Application Discovery Service to facilitate workload discovery. However, some customers run highly secure workloads where deploying assessment tools, enabling […]

Observability is a critical aspect for maintaining the health and performance of any distributed system. Organizations rely on data from diverse sources, including AWS services as well as third-party ISVs (independent software vendor) to gain insights into their system’s health. Establishing secure connections to these diverse data sources enables visualization and analysis of observability data […]

AWS customers come to AWS Resilience Hub for the ability to assess their application against their Recovery Time Objectives (RTO), the maximum acceptable time an application can be in a disrupted state, and Recovery Point Objectives (RPO), the maximum amount of data that can be lost due to disruption. Although customers come for the assessment […]

Introduction vSphere HA is a fundamental and frequently used feature of vSphere. If any of several failure scenarios occur, it restarts a virtual machine. The failure scenarios range from VM or host crashes to unresponsive hosts (for example, due to network isolation or outage). Translating vSphere High Availability (HA) to the public cloud can be […]

This blog is the second part to a 2 part series on how to secure your Amazon API Gateway with Amazon Cognito, in machine to machine (M2M) communication use cases. In the previous blog post, we dove deep into the different use cases involving M2M communication and how it contributes to business modernization, and why […]