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Best Practices for validating AWS AppConfig Feature Flags and Configuration Data
AWS AppConfig helps you create, manage, and deploy application configuration. One crucial use case for AppConfig is feature flagging, which lets you release features quickly and safely. Using AppConfig Feature Flags, you can separate code from configuration data and hide new features behind a configuration flag. When ready to release that feature, you simply update the […]
Deep Dive on an AWS Migration Hub Refactor Spaces Environment
Refactor Spaces, an HAQM Web Services (AWS) Migration Hub feature, eliminates the undifferentiated work of building and operating AWS infrastructure for incremental application refactoring (typically to microservices using the strangler fig pattern). Building and operating this infrastructure also becomes more complex when making use of multiple AWS accounts (a best practice). While Refactor Spaces saves […]
Create ServiceNow Incidents for HAQM CloudWatch Alarms using AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow
Many customers use ServiceNow for Incident Management, and have asked how they can create ServiceNow incidents when CloudWatch alarms are triggered in their AWS environment. The AWS post Learn how to leverage HAQM CloudWatch alarms to create an incident in ServiceNow explains how to leverage HAQM Simple Notification Service (HAQM SNS) topics to send messages […]
Prepare for Oracle license audits in AWS using AWS Audit Manager and AWS License Manager
Many of our customers who run Oracle databases need help with managing their Oracle licenses on AWS and ensuring that they have not fallen out of compliance with Oracle’s licensing rules. They must be prepared to provide relevant evidence in an auditor-friendly format during an Oracle license audit. Gathering evidence in a timely manner to […]
How to use the AWS Resilience Hub score
Time to read 10 minutes Time to complete 1 hour Cost to complete $15 per day (WordPress Multi-AZ application, AWS ResilienceHub Application and recommendations Learning level 200 – Intermediate Services used AWS ResilienceHub, AWS CloudFormation, HAQM CloudWatch, AWS Fault Injection Simulator AWS Resilience Hub provides a central place to define, validate, and track the resiliency […]
Deploy and Customize AWS accounts using Account Factory for Terraform in AWS Control Tower
Customers use AWS Control Tower Account Factory to create a new AWS account or enroll existing AWS accounts in their AWS Organizations. Customers launch Account Factory from the AWS Control Tower console or via AWS Service Catalog API. We hear from customers that they want to manage their AWS accounts in the same way that […]
A self-service patching solution for multi-account organizations
Patch Management is a critical operation that every organization wants to prioritize. This becomes tedious and challenging if an enterprise operates on a platform-consumer or hub-spoke model. An example of this would be a multi-account environment with hundreds of accounts and thousands of users using applications hosted in AWS. Different application owners have different requirements […]
Procuring software on AWS Marketplace for customers in regulated spaces
Customers operating in highly-regulated spaces often tell us about the compliance challenges that they face when procuring commercial software in the cloud. This is especially true for federal customers subject to the GSA Schedule , or state and local customers operating under NASPO Value Point. Procurements in this space often require negotiated purchasing agreements and […]
Using HAQM CloudWatch dashboards custom widgets
Many of our customers use HAQM CloudWatch dashboards but have additional use cases that would benefit from the ability to include custom datasets in their existing dashboards. Custom widgets let you create your own visualizations or datasets, share them with other teams, provide input or parameters to your widget, and adjust the time scoped on […]
Visualize data on Snowflake usage and credits using HAQM Managed Grafana
In August 2021, AWS announced HAQM Managed Grafana as generally available (GA), a fully-managed service that’s developed together with Grafana Labs and based on open source Grafana. Enhanced with enterprise capabilities, HAQM Managed Grafana makes it easier to visualize and analyze operational data at scale. HAQM Managed Grafana is a fully-managed and secure data visualization service that […]