AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Overview Effective operation of cloud applications and services demands a strong focus on monitoring and observability. It’s critical for your teams to define, capture, and analyze metrics, ensuring operational visibility and extracting actionable insights from logs. In many companies, technical teams share integrated systems to monitor the services or infrastructure they manage. Shared observability systems […]

Let’s recap the week at AWS re:Invent 2023 with a round-up of the AWS Observability launches across HAQM CloudWatch, HAQM Managed Grafana, and HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus. From automatic instrumentation and operation of applications in CloudWatch, to agentless scraping of Prometheus metrics in Managed Service for Prometheus, read on to learn about the features […]

Background In a typical 3-tier application architecture, WebLogic is an application server that runs on a middle tier between back-end databases and browser-based clients. WebLogic allows users to develop and deploy an application that has business logic and allows the application to access other services like database, messaging, or other enterprise systems. Many customers still […]

The term “digital transformation” describes the implementation of new technologies, talents, and processes to remain competitive in an ever-changing technology landscape. Companies must embrace transformation initiatives to gain benefits such as improving productivity, improving customer experiences and reduce operational costs. A successful transformation journey involves both Migration and Modernization.  Modernization is the refactoring of legacy technology by […]

Introduction In this blog post you will learn how to visualize AWS Health events using HAQM Managed Grafana to gain deeper insights across multiple Health events in a centralized place. When used in conjunction with AWS Health, Grafana can enhance the ability to respond to issues, optimize performance, and ensure the overall Health of the […]

Application performance monitoring (or APM) is the practice of taking key application performance indicators to ensure system availability, improve system performance, and improve the end-user experience. This week we announced HAQM CloudWatch Application Signals, a new set of features built-in to HAQM CloudWatch to help you speed up troubleshooting, reduce application disruptions, and operational costs, […]

The rapid growth of generative AI brings promising new innovation, and at the same time raises new challenges. At AWS, we are committed to developing AI responsibly while enabling customers to provide assurance regarding the security of their environment to regulators and auditors. AWS Audit Manager announces the first version of AWS best practices framework for generative AI […]

The AWS Well-Architected Tool (WA Tool) helps you define and review workloads based on the latest AWS architectural best practices. This allows you to consistently identify areas of strength and improvement in your workloads. During a Well-Architected review, you answer questions to evaluate your architecture and receive an improvement plan detailing any high or medium […]

AWS Config is a service that tracks configuration changes of AWS resources in your AWS account or across your AWS Organizations. AWS Config uses the configuration recorder to detect changes of your resources and track them as configuration items (CIs). Given the increasing complexity of cloud infrastructure, the number of resource configuration changes being made […]

Today, we are happy to announce that AWS CloudTrail Lake data is now available for zero-ETL analysis in HAQM Athena. AWS CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing user and API activity on AWS for audit, security, and compliance purposes. CloudTrail Lake allows you to easily aggregate activity logs […]