Tag: Cloud Operations

Introduction Ensuring resilience, the ability for a system to recover from a failure induced by load, attacks, and other issues, is a shared responsibility that underpins the reliability of your workloads. While AWS provides the resilient underlying cloud infrastructure, customers are tasked with maintaining the resilience of their applications. In this landscape of joint responsibility, […]

ServiceNow is a popular cloud-based IT Service Management (ITSM) platform. Organizations use ServiceNow to manage incidents, track scheduled and planned infrastructure changes, manage new service requests and track configuration items across IT systems. Common questions I’ve had from customers include how they can use ServiceNow to provision new instances. Or, how to use ServiceNow to […]

AWS Systems Manager Automation runbooks let you deploy, configure, and manage AWS resources safely and at scale. You can use AWS-published runbooks or build your own to enable AWS resource management across multiple accounts and regions. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK v2) is an open-source framework that can build applications with the expressive power of […]

Operations Teams (Ops Teams) across enterprises typically rely on documented architecture diagrams to understand the dependencies of various workloads deployed on AWS. As enterprises continue to deploy large-scale multi-tiered workloads, it can become challenging for Ops Teams to track the ever changing relationships between the deployed resources, often meaning that documentation can’t keep up with […]

Introduction For organizations moving to the cloud, fully embracing its benefits is not straightforward. Even with strong management buy-in and approved business cases, executional challenges are common. Do the below challenges resonate with what you are facing now in your cloud journey? No single-threaded owner of cloud initiatives, impacting velocity of decision-making Unable to effectively […]

This post shows you how to monitor the days remaining for HAQM EC2 Reserved Instances. The solution uses a custom HAQM CloudWatch metric published via an AWS Lambda function. It creates a CloudWatch alarm and an HAQM Simple Notification Service (HAQM SNS) topic for notification when the alarm exceeds the user-defined threshold. CloudWatch allows you […]

Are you looking for ways to optimize your costs on AWS? Are you ensuring that you are taking advantage of all the cost-saving features and services that AWS offers? If not, you should be! In this blog post, we will discuss how to use AWS Well-Architected  and AWS Trusted Advisor to achieve data-driven insights that […]

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 […]

An important aspect of operational readiness is having a well-defined process to perform activities in your workload for various scenarios as indicated in Question 7 of Operational Excellence pillar in AWS Well-Architected Framework. Which aims at evaluating your workload’s readiness for operation, from process and personnel perspective. In the case of Incident response, a team […]

Automation runbooks let you define a set of actions that automate various operations in your AWS environment. Runbooks allow our customers to simply configure automation workflows that they can execute based on either events or a scheduled cadence. These workflows commonly require integration with third-party systems, such as Slack, Jira, and ServiceNow. As of January […]