AWS Storage Blog
Tag: HAQM CloudWatch
Auditing user and administrative actions in HAQM FSx for NetApp ONTAP using Splunk
Update (10/26/2022): This blog was updated to recommend that you validate that your file system can contact the log forwarding IP addresses. Log and audit event monitoring is a vital part of any organization’s security practices. For file systems, this involves logging end-user activities (such as file access attempts) as well as administrative actions that […]
How Devo’s security analytics solution uses HAQM EBS to optimize storage cost and performance
Devo is a cloud-native, multi-tenant centralized log management platform used by some of the world’s largest organizations to ingest, secure and enable real-time querying and analytics of their data. When managing data for major brand-name retail, financial services, and public sector organizations as Devo does, there’s no room for error when it comes to the […]
AWS Backup anomaly detection for HAQM EBS volumes
Protecting your data from cyberattacks and ransomware is a critical responsibility, and taking the necessary steps to detect anomalous activity at every level within your organization can help you keep your data as safe as possible. Data storage is an important area where you can and should deploy anomaly detection. To protect your storage, in […]
Disaster recovery monitoring of AWS Elastic Disaster Recovery
Monitoring and troubleshooting disaster recovery (DR) solutions is a critical component of any DR strategy. The ability to receive alerts and status updates is imperative when it comes to limiting downtime and maintaining operations. Often, monitoring a DR solution is a post-deployment afterthought. Administrators must be logged in to the tool to see if it’s […]
Enhanced disaster recovery monitoring with CloudEndure and HAQM CloudWatch
Update (March 4, 2022): Updated HAQM CloudWatch events section to utilize HAQM EventBridge rules instead, allowing you to further customize your serverless event architecture. AWS is also deprecating the requests module in botocore to improve flexibility and performance, and added the ability to use Layers within AWS Lambda to continue using this module. Code has […]
Monitoring and understanding HAQM EBS performance using HAQM CloudWatch
Storage and compute are the main pillars of many different types of applications, making them important to monitor and understand when optimizing or developing an application for peak performance. HAQM EBS is an easy-to-use, scalable, high-performance block-storage service designed for HAQM EC2. EBS is the main type of storage used by applications for high performance transaction-based […]
Monitoring and reporting HAQM FSx user access events using Splunk
UPDATE 9/8/2021: HAQM Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to HAQM OpenSearch Service. See details. Monitoring end-user activity and access to data is core to any modern data security strategy. As customers migrate workloads to the cloud, logging end-user accesses of customer data is a key component of internal security policies and is required to meet […]
Monitoring CloudEndure Disaster Recovery with AWS Lambda
Many organizations must monitor and track their disaster recovery (DR) initiatives to meet business and audit objectives. CloudEndure Disaster Recovery provides fast and reliable recovery of physical, virtual, and cloud-based servers into AWS. It uses email alerts and has a high-level dashboard for monitoring DR jobs. However, many organizations require more robust reporting mechanisms. This […]
Analyzing and monitoring CloudEndure Disaster Recovery replication traffic
For the purposes of data, application, and workload disaster recovery (DR), an optimal Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is essential to saving time and data critical to business operations. Ensuring that your DR setup is functional and architected according to best practices can help you achieve a functional RPO of seconds. Monitoring your DR setup to […]
Visualizing usage of Provisioned IOPS volumes on HAQM EBS for analysis
Organizations are always looking to right-size cloud infrastructure and optimize to cost. Historically, one of the areas where it has been difficult to right-size at scale are Provisioned IOPS volumes on HAQM EBS, as optimization usually required third-party tools. The recently announced AWS Compute Optimizer assists in solving that problem, as it helps customers optimize compute resources […]