AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: HAQM Athena
Exploring AWS Config data using HAQM Athena and HAQM Managed Grafana
This post is co-written with Jacob Rickerd, Principal Security Engineer at Attentive. The post walks through an example dashboard that Attentive, an AI-powered mobile marketing platform, uses for resource inventory, serving as a starting point for you to build comprehensive dashboards tailored to your environment and tag policies. Attentive is the AI-powered SMS and email […]
Audit and visualize ephemeral EC2 instances using AWS CloudTrail Lake as a zero-ETL data source in HAQM Athena
Today, we are happy to announce that AWS CloudTrail Lake data is now available for zero-ETL analysis in HAQM Athena. AWS CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing user and API activity on AWS for audit, security, and compliance purposes. CloudTrail Lake allows you to easily aggregate activity logs […]
Increase visibility and governance on cloud with AWS Cloud Operations services – Part 2
Introduction This blog post is a continuation of Part 1. To recap, as your organization adopts AWS, you will likely leverage multi-account architectures to meet your requirements. We introduced some foundational patterns to prepare the environments for centralized operations and governance using AWS Cloud Operations services. In this blog (Part 2), we will show you […]
Centralizing configuration management using AWS Systems Manager
In this guest post, Kaitlyn Fedorak (Engineer) and contributors, Cody Olsen (Senior Engineer), Will Scott (Engineer), Samuel Raghunandan (Engineer), from Xero discuss their use of AWS Systems Manager Inventory and State Manager for configuration management of HAQM EC2 instances. Any team or company can leverage a similar design described in this post to save on […]
Streamline Automation with Outbound Webhooks for AWS Systems Manager Runbooks
Automation runbooks let you define a set of actions that automate various operations in your AWS environment. Runbooks allow our customers to simply configure automation workflows that they can execute based on either events or a scheduled cadence. These workflows commonly require integration with third-party systems, such as Slack, Jira, and ServiceNow. As of January […]
Use AWS Systems Manager custom Inventory to locate Log4j files on managed nodes
In this post we will provide guidance to assist customers responding to the recently disclosed Log4j vulnerability by detailing how to use AWS Systems Manager Inventory to locate Log4j JAR files on Linux and Windows HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and hybrid managed nodes. A hybrid managed node includes on-premises servers, edge devices, and virtual […]
Automate AWS Config data visualization with AWS Systems Manager
Earlier this year we published a blog, Visualizing AWS Config data using HAQM Athena and HAQM QuickSight. It outlines the steps for setting up AWS Config with HAQM Athena and HAQM QuickSight. We received great feedback from that post. To further help our customers adopt these tools we are happy to announce the availability of […]
HAQM Athena, HAQM Redshift Plugins and New Features in HAQM Managed Grafana
During late August 2021, we made HAQM Managed Grafana generally available, and around re:Invent we launched some new features, specifically for new plugins. This post provides you with the high-level overview and shows you some of them in action. HAQM Managed Grafana is a fully managed service that handles the provisioning, setup, scaling, and maintenance […]
Visualize and gain insights into your AWS cost and usage with Cloud Intelligence Dashboards and CUDOS using HAQM QuickSight
Across all industry segments, our customers require better visibility into their AWS usage to help them understand the return on their investment, achieve operational efficiency, and make business decisions that have financial impact. As organizations mature, customers need to answer simple but granular operational questions related to: Which key areas should I focus to optimize […]
Query and visualize Microsoft SQL Server license utilization using HAQM Athena and HAQM QuickSight
In part 1 of this two-part series, I showed you how to deploy a solution to centrally track Microsoft SQL Server licenses in AWS Organizations across multiple AWS accounts and Regions. In this post, I will show you how to query and visualize the aggregated Inventory data using HAQM Athena and HAQM QuickSight to centrally manage your SQL Server licenses. With […]