AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: AWS Lambda
Manage AWS account alternate contacts with Terraform
Managing AWS billing, support and service team notifications, and potential security events are critical for customers to ensure security, cost optimization and operational monitoring for their AWS deployments. Alternate contacts allow us to contact another person about issues with your account at the right time, even if you’re unavailable. AWS will send you operational notifications such […]
Monitoring underlying hardware failures for EC2 instances by logging them with HAQM OpenSearch Service
With HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) you can spin up a virtual server or instance of various sizes that run on system composed of server, storage, and network hardware. AWS uses status checks to monitor the system on which an EC2 instance runs and detects underlying problems with your instance. These checks are performed […]
How to enable HAQM CloudWatch Alarms to send repeated notifications
HAQM CloudWatch Alarms is natively integrated with HAQM CloudWatch metrics. Many AWS services send metrics to CloudWatch, and AWS also offers many approaches that let you emit your applications’ metrics as custom metrics. CloudWatch Alarms let you monitor the metrics changes when crossing a static threshold or falling out of an anomaly detection band. Furthermore, […]
How to validate AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry attribute groups schema and take remediation actions
Many customers define resource tagging strategy to manage their AWS resources to either being able to identify the resource owner or the cost center, or for any other purpose. Therefore, it’s important to have a mechanism to identify those resources that don’t have the essential resource tags. In AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry, attribute groups are […]
Using ELB Access Logs and AWS Application Cost Profiler to track tenant cost of shared AWS Infrastructure
In our previous post on AWS Application Cost Profiler (ACP), we demonstrated how application owners instrument a serverless application with tenant metadata in a contextual format using AWS X-Ray. This tenant metadata is necessary for ACP to generate a granular cost breakdown of shared AWS resources used by multi-tenant applications. These granular cost insights let […]
Update your HAQM CloudWatch dashboards automatically using HAQM EventBridge and AWS Lambda
HAQM CloudWatch lets customers collect monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, and alarms. This allows for easy visualization and notifications regarding their workload health. HAQM CloudWatch dashboards are customizable home pages in the CloudWatch console that you can use to monitor your resources in a single view, even those resources that […]
Monitoring AWS Lambda errors using HAQM CloudWatch
When we troubleshoot failed invocations from our Lambda functions, we often must identify the invocations that failed (from among all of the invocations), identify the root cause, and reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). In this post, we will demonstrate how to utilize HAQM CloudWatch to identify failed AWS Lambda invocations. Likewise, we will show how […]
Visualize application costs using AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry and HAQM QuickSight
In a previous blog post, we discussed how AWS Service Catalog AppRegistry lets you create a repository of your applications and associated resources. Then, you can define and manage your application metadata. This lets you understand the context of your applications and resources across your environments. This post will demonstrate how to utilize your application […]
Control developer account costs with AWS CloudFormation and AWS Budgets
Often when working with customers, we guide them by using AWS Budgets and related tools in the AWS platform in order to create cost and utilization guardrails. These tools can be used to conduct advanced, automated, and hands-free actions within your AWS environment – even across multiple accounts. This post will walk you through a […]
Automating account provisioning with CloudCheckr integration for Cloud Financial Management
AWS Organizations helps you centrally manage and govern your environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources. AWS Organizations lets you programmatically create new AWS accounts to allocate resources, group accounts to organize your workflows, apply policies to accounts or groups for governance, and simplify billing by utilizing a single payment method for every […]