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HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus adds support for 200M active metrics
Today, HAQM Web Services (AWS) is pleased to announce support for 200M active series per workspace for HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus. HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that monitors and alarms on operational metrics at scale. It does this without you having to manage the underlying infrastructure required […]
Visualizing HAQM CloudWatch Costs – Part 2 – Where does the data come from?
In part 1 of this series we explored an HAQM CloudWatch dashboard which provides a real-time view of some of the typical main contributors to CloudWatch costs. In this second post, we’ll look at how the CloudWatch dashboard widgets were created so that you can learn how to create something similar, or modify the widgets […]
Visualizing HAQM CloudWatch Costs – Part 1
HAQM CloudWatch monitors your AWS resources and the applications you run on AWS in real-time. You can use CloudWatch to collect metrics, logs, traces, set up alarms, create synthetic checks, and more. The information you collect lets you observe, validate, and alert on areas of interest to you. In this two-part post, we’ll explore a […]
Monitoring the availability and health of on-premises application using AWS CloudWatch Synthetics
HAQM CloudWatch is a monitoring and observability service that provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization. You can utilize various CloudWatch capabilities to monitor the health of your application that is available over the internet, or resides within an HAQM Virtual Private Cloud (HAQM VPC) […]
How CDW manages AWS support cases for multiple AWS managed services (AMS) Accelerate accounts
CDW is an AWS Advanced Tier partner with six partner programs and 50+ AWS Customer launches. Furthermore, it has partnered with AWS Managed Services (AMS) to provide a competitive advantage that further propels the quality and delivery of end-to-end IT solutions. CDW Cloud Managed Services powered by AMS helps you deploy, deliver, and manage applications […]
Use port forwarding in AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to connect to remote hosts
We recently announced a new capability within AWS Systems Manager Session Manager that allows forwarding connections from client machines to ports on remote hosts. This enables users to securely access and manage remote servers (databases, web servers, etc.) in the private networks without needing to setup bastion hosts or open additional ports to the outside […]
Enhance Operational Insight by Converting the Output of any AWS SDK Commands to Prometheus Metrics
Have you ever wished you had the output of an AWS Command to enrich your dashboards or alerts? The AWS control plane contains a rich set of information that can be operationally insightful! Recently I encountered a customer running multiple HAQM Elastic Kubernetes Service (HAQM EKS) clusters in an IP constrained environment. When a subnet […]
Announcing AWS Config Compliance Scores for conformance pack
Back in November 2019, we announced AWS Config Conformance Packs, which is a collection of AWS Config rules and remediation actions that can be easily deployed as a single entity in an account and a region or across an organization in AWS Organizations. Conformance Packs have helped AWS customers to manage and enforce compliance of […]
Copy existing AWS CloudTrail trails events to a AWS CloudTrail Lake event data store
AWS announced the general availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake on 5th Jan 2022, a managed audit and security lake that lets you aggregate, immutably store, and query activity logs for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. Since launch, customers have adopted this feature, and it’s an integral part of customer operational and security operational processes. […]
License management using Delegated Administrator feature of AWS License Manager
Learn with Shree on how to offload license management activities using Delegated Administrator feature of AWS License Manager.