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AWS Systems Manager (SSM) in combination with AWS Key Management Services (KMS), HAQM CloudWatch, and HAQM OpenSearch allow administrators to encrypt and securely store user session logs, as well as search the log data for information. These tools are easy to integrate and provide powerful analytical capabilities without the undifferentiated heavy lifting. In this series, […]

AWS System Manager in combination with HAQM Key Management Services (KMS), HAQM CloudWatch, and HAQM Open Search can provide administrators with the ability to encrypt and securely store user session logs and search the log data for information. These tools are easy to integrate and provide powerful analytical capabilities without undifferentiated heavy lifting. In the […]

Observability means more than just monitoring. At AWS, we consider observability to be an integral component of healthy and secure operations. Two of the newest features of HAQM CloudWatch that enhance observability into your application’s health and operations are HAQM CloudWatch RUM and HAQM CloudWatch Evidently. In this post, we will take you through a […]

Organizations managing cloud infrastructure in AWS need effective mechanisms to audit operations in their AWS accounts for security and compliance. In November 2013, we announced AWS CloudTrail as the auditing platform for AWS. Since then, millions of customers have adopted this service. We believe CloudTrail is so important to AWS customers’ success that every new […]

When running your applications on AWS, the number of resources you use increases as the demand of your applications keeps growing. Eventually, keeping track of your AWS resources and the relationships between them becomes challenging from a governance perspective. AWS Config lets you more easily assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources. […]

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 […]

Organizations have many options for connecting to on-premises networks or third parties, including AWS Site-to-Site VPN. However, some organizations still need to use an HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) instance running VPN software, such as strongSwan. Gaining insight into HAQM EC2-based VPN metrics can be challenging when compared to AWS native VPN services that […]

HAQM CloudWatch RUM makes it easy for AWS customers to access real-world performance metrics from web applications, thereby giving insights into the end-user experience. These user experiences are quantified into discrete metrics that you can then create alarms for. But what if you must have different load time alarms for certain pages? Or you’re testing […]

In a previous blog post, we provided a walkthrough of how to fix unreachable HAQM EC2 Windows instances using the EC2Rescue for Windows tool. In this blog post, I will walk you through how to utilize EC2Rescue for Linux to fix unreachable Linux instances. This Knowledge Center Article describes how EC2Rescue for Linux can be used to […]

HAQM CloudWatch has recently launched Metrics Insights (Preview) – a fast, flexible, SQL-based query engine that enables you to identify trends and patterns across millions of operational metrics in real-time. With Metrics Insights, you can easily query and analyze your metrics to gain better visibility into the health and performance of your infrastructure and large scale […]