AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Enabling effective governance in a multi-account environment and aligning with AWS best practices and common compliance frameworks can be a complex endeavor. Many customers, particularly those operating in regulated industries, face the challenge of investing time and resources in identifying risks and developing their own controls to address service relationships and dependencies. This process can […]

As customers deploy cloud-based solutions, they need to be able to ensure that systems are running smoothly, and that they can quickly remediate issues when they arise. Deploying observability at scale can be challenging for customers, especially when it involves tens and hundreds of services across their enterprise. Customers want best practice recommendations, guidance in […]

At AWS, we offer a variety of tools to assist our customers during their cloud journey. From AWS re:POST where you can ask AWS related questions to the community, to AWS Skill Builder where customers can view on-demand video content and sign up to attend online and live training sessions. AWS also offers various support […]

In this blog post, you will learn how to improve observability on your HAQM RDS Custom for SQL Server database. You will configure metric exporters and send those metrics to HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus, to be visualized in HAQM Managed Grafana. By utilizing both HAQM Managed Service for Prometheus, and HAQM Managed Grafana, you […]

Organizations rely heavily on cloud-based data processing and analytics platforms in today’s data-driven world to unlock valuable insights and make informed decisions. Databricks, a unified analytics platform, has emerged as a popular choice due to its seamless integration with Apache Spark, and its ability to efficiently handle large-scale data processing tasks. Many customers have implemented […]

AWS CloudTrail Lake is a managed data lake for capturing, storing, accessing, and analyzing user and API activity on AWS for audit, security, and operational purposes. You can aggregate and immutably store your activity events, and run SQL-based queries for search and analysis. In Jan 2023, AWS announced the support of ingestion for activity events […]

In this blog post we’ll look at how to configure the AWS Cloud Migration Factory (CMF) solution to use SAML authentication. We will use an existing identity provider (in this case Azure Active Directory). However, this can be replicated with any IDP that offers SAML authentication. By federating existing logins and accounts with CMF, the […]

Observability helps you understand the health, usage, performance, and customer experience for your workloads. Observability can support many use cases, from detecting incidents and supporting incident resolution, to understanding the impact of new features on your users and workflow. Establishing the right solution depends on being able to gather the right data for your situation. […]

While working with many of our customers, a recurring question has been “How can we be notified when users login to key accounts so we can take action if needed?” This post shows how to implement a flexible, simple, and serverless solution that creates notifications when sensitive accounts are logged in to. Alerting on high […]

HAQM CloudWatch Metric Streams now supports filtering by metric name. This blog will show you how to gain finer control over the metrics you want to stream using Include and Exclude metric name filters in Metric Streams. HAQM CloudWatch Metric Streams simplifies the way you collect and analyze metric data by providing continuous, near-real-time streams of […]