Category: HAQM CloudWatch

Way back in 2009 I wrote a blog post titled New Features for HAQM EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and HAQM CloudWatch. In that post I talked about how HAQM CloudWatch helps you to build applications that are highly scalable and highly available, and noted that it gives you cost-effective real-time visibility into your […]

Update Nov 29, 2021 – This post has been modified to provide more clarity on the new service. As a developer, I am excited to announce the availability of HAQM CloudWatch Evidently. This is a new HAQM CloudWatch capability that makes it easy for developers to introduce experiments and feature management in their application code. […]

Fifteen years ago today I wrote the blog post that launched the HAQM EC2 Beta. As I recall, the launch was imminent for quite some time as we worked to finalize the feature set, the pricing model, and innumerable other details. The launch date was finally chosen and it happened to fall in the middle […]

HAQM FSx for Windows File Server provides fully managed file storage that is accessible over the industry-standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. It is built on Windows Server and offers a rich set of enterprise storage capabilities with the scalability, reliability, and low cost that you have come to expect from AWS. In addition to […]

When we launched HAQM CloudWatch back in 2009 (New Features for HAQM EC2: Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, and HAQM CloudWatch), it tracked performance metrics (CPU load, Disk I/O, and network I/O) for EC2 instances, rolled them up at one-minute intervals, and stored them for two weeks. At that time it was used to monitor […]

To balance costs, while at the same time ensuring the service levels needed to meet business requirements are met, some customers elect to continuously monitor and optimize their AWS Lambda functions. They collect and analyze metrics and logs to monitor performance, and to isolate errors for troubleshooting purposes. Additionally, they also seek to right-size function […]

Over a year ago, I wrote about the Launch of a feature in AWS Systems Manager called OpsCenter, which allows customers to aggregate issues, events, and alerts into one place and make it easier for operations engineers and IT professionals to investigate and remediate problems. Today, I get to tell you about a new integration […]

The HAQM Route 53 team has just launched a new feature called Route 53 Resolver Query Logs, which will let you log all DNS queries made by resources within your HAQM Virtual Private Cloud (HAQM VPC). Whether it’s an HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instance, an AWS Lambda function, or a container, if it […]