Category: AWS Config

Speed matters in business, and AWS customers want to move quickly and securely when they choose to innovate and develop on our platform. As customers scale their AWS footprint, a majority of them adopt a multi-account strategy to separate their workloads and better enable their teams to build rapidly. The AWS multi-account strategy provides guidance […]

Written by Ran Isenberg, Principal Architect at CyberArk Feature flags are a powerful tool that allow you to change software behavior. In addition, feature flags can improve your CI/CD pipeline by enabling capabilities, such as A/B testing, thus making them an enabler of DevOps and a crucial part of any CI/CD pipeline. However, feature flagging […]

Most systems developed on the cloud nowadays implement a microservices architecture. A common demand is that each microservice is highly configurable and that configuration can be changed without changing code, and ideally, without restarting a running service instance. Quarkus (see http://quarkus.io/) is a popular framework for writing high-performing microservices in Java. AWS AppConfig is AWS’ […]

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AWS Config evaluates the configuration settings of your AWS resources. You do this by creating AWS Config rules, which represent your ideal configuration settings. AWS Config provides customizable, predefined rules called AWS Managed Rules to help you get started. While AWS Config continuously tracks the configuration changes that occur among your resources, it checks whether […]

As customers become more mature in the cloud, they will start to investigate how they can utilize additional AWS services in order to meet their goals. In many cases the initial phase will involve some research and testing of the service before deploying it across their cloud environment. For customers that may need to maintain […]

With 2022 behind us, we want to take the opportunity to highlight our readers and the top blog posts from 2022. A big thank you to all our readers but also our authors who continue to work on delighting our customers with their blog posts. #1 Announcing AWS CloudTrail Lake – a managed audit and […]

In this post, we will show how you can deploy AWS Config custom rules across accounts in your organization, leveraging the Rules Development Kit (RDK), an open source development kit designed to support intuitive and efficient “Compliance-as-Code” workflows. With AWS Config custom rules, you can define custom logic for the desired configuration state of your […]

Today, HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus announces support for HAQM Virtual Private Cloud (HAQM VPC) endpoint policies. With VPC endpoint policy support, customers can now further control access to HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus through restricting user access or allowable actions. HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus is a fully managed Prometheus-compatible monitoring service that monitors and alarms on […]

Organizations managing cloud infrastructure in AWS need effective mechanisms to audit operations in their AWS accounts for security and compliance. Early this year we announced the availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake a managed data lake that lets organizations aggregate, immutably store, and query events recorded by CloudTrail for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. CloudTrail […]