Category: Centralized operations management

Application reliability is critical. Service interruptions result in a negative customer experience, thereby reducing customer trust and business value. One best practice that we have learned at HAQM, is to have a standard mechanism for post-incident analysis. This lets us analyze a system after an incident in order to avoid reoccurrences in the future. These […]

Customers will often start using various AWS services through a single AWS account. As customers continue their AWS journey, they increase the number and diversity of workloads operating on AWS. Furthermore, as the number of users grows, managing this account becomes difficult and time consuming. Then, customers create more accounts for multiple users. This helps […]

This post was co-authored by Jordan Koch at Veradigm. Applying operating systems patches is one of the easiest ways to secure a system from ever-changing cybersecurity threats. However, for many organizations it is one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks. Many organizations deploy operating system patches through their various environments, first applying to Development, […]

AWS Systems Manager lets you safely automate common and repetitive IT operations and management tasks. Furthermore, Systems Manager Automation lets you use predefined playbooks, or you can build, run, and share wiki-style automated playbooks to enable AWS resource management across multiple accounts and AWS Regions. Snowflake, the Data Cloud, is an APN Partner that provides […]

For years, the CloudFix team has managed and maintained 120+ AWS hosted SaaS products across hundreds of AWS accounts. Although this model follows established AWS best practices, the team’s scope introduced operational challenges. Their team needed a way to identify cost-saving opportunities across their applications without making architectural compromises or introducing service disruption. The team […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]