AWS Cloud Operations Blog

In this blog post, learn how to build an Amazon QuickSight dashboard to visualize critical patch and inventory information to speed up MTTR. Also, you can use filters to search for a specific AWS Account, specific AWS Region, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) name, or check installed/missed packages. You want to visualize system patching […]

AWS CloudTrail Insights is a powerful feature within AWS CloudTrail that helps organizations identify and respond to unusual operational activity in their AWS accounts. This includes identifying spikes in resource provisioning, bursts of IAM actions, or gaps in periodic maintenance activity. CloudTrail Insights continuously analyzes CloudTrail management events from trails and event data stores, establishing […]

AWS Resilience Hub helps you to manage and improve the resilience posture of your applications on AWS. It enables you to define your resilience goals, assess your resilience posture against those goals, and implement recommendations for improvement based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. This benefits individual teams that want to assess their applications. However, for […]

Have you ever been investigating a problem and opened up a log file and thought “I have no idea what I am looking at. If only I could get a summary of the data.” Observability and log data play an important role in maintaining operational excellence and ensuring the reliability of your applications and services. […]

AWS has been named as a Challenger in the 2024 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, previously known as Gartner Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Magic Quadrant. This report assesses vendors based on their Ability to Execute and Completeness of Vision. Compared to the previous year, AWS has moved up higher on the Ability […]

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 […]

AWS Systems Manager Quick Setup simplifies setting up AWS services, including Systems Manager, by automating common or recommended tasks in your AWS Organization across AWS accounts and Regions. These tasks include, creating required AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) instance profile roles and setting up operational best practices, such as periodic patch scans and inventory […]

AWS Resilience Hub is a central location in the AWS Management Console for you to manage and improve the resilience posture of your applications on AWS. AWS Resilience Hub enables you to define your resilience goals, assess your resilience posture against those goals, and implement recommendations for improvement based on the AWS Well-Architected Framework. AWS […]

ChatOps is a collaborative approach to operations that integrates chat platforms with automation tools and processes. It’s a way to bring together people, tools, and processes in a single chat interface to facilitate communication, collaboration, and execution of tasks within a team or organization. It is critical for an Operations team to act quickly and […]

Organizations are required to adhere to industry-specific regulations and certification programs, and a key component of this compliance is the creation of a comprehensive user privilege and access report for cloud infrastructure. Auditors rely on these reports to verify that permissions are tightly controlled at a granular level. However, the complexity of access control mechanisms, […]