AWS Cloud Operations Blog

AWS customers use AWS CloudTrail Lake to aggregate and analyze their AWS activity for security, operational troubleshooting, and compliance purposes. However, when investigating security incidents or conducting compliance audits, customers often need additional business context beyond the basic event details – like which team or project owns the affected resources, or what where the properties […]

High-performance applications with unlimited throughput capabilities pose significant monitoring challenges, especially when tracking real-time metrics, utilization, and throttling events across distributed database workloads. Near real-time visibility into metrics is crucial for application performance and cost optimization. AWS allows you to seamlessly integrate multiple services to tackle these operational complexities. With HAQM DynamoDB, you can build […]

Enterprise organizations managing multiple AWS accounts face complexity as their cloud infrastructure scales. The exponential growth in resources, coupled with diverse configuration requirements across different business units, creates significant challenges in maintaining effective oversight of AWS environments. AWS Config is a service that continually assesses, audits, and evaluates the configurations and relationships of your resources […]

In today’s fast-paced digital world, business continuity isn’t just a goal — it’s an achievable reality. As organizations continue to innovate and grow, their cloud-based applications have become the beating heart of modern business operations, delivering value to customers around the clock. Companies are taking their cloud strategy to the next level by embracing multi-Region […]

We are incredibly excited to see you at AWS re:Inforce, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 16-18, 2025. This year’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance track features sessions on automating compliance, enhancing risk visibility, using generative AI for business growth, and maintaining security at scale, including 5 breakout sessions, 8 builder sessions, 7 chalk talks, 2 code […]

Managing hybrid infrastructure across AWS and on-premises environments presents a layer of operational complexity for managing nodes. Some teams use different tools to manage these systems based on the platform they are running on, while others use licensed Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software. Teams can use AWS Systems Manager hybrid activations to manage on-premise […]

The build and rollout of hardened and certified operating systems (OS) is an imperative of any Cloud Operations (CloudOps) or Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) team within an organization. The guideline and security controls to certify the images come from the respective teams within your organization who, in turn, refer to the popular industry wide […]

Today, we are excited to announce AWS CloudTrail network activity for VPC endpoints, a new event type that captures actions transmitted through a Virtual Private Cloud Endpoint. In this preview, this new event type captures network activity events from VPC endpoints for HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Key Management Service (KMS), HAQM S3, and […]

Introduction Organizations face unique compliance requirements across their AWS resources and accounts. While AWS Config provides managed rules, many organizations need custom rules and automated remediation capabilities that can scale across their AWS Organization. This blog post demonstrates how to use AWS Config custom conformance pack to deploy and manage custom rules with remediation actions […]

Introduction Data pipelines are essential for modern data-driven companies to gain critical business insights. However, data pipelines commonly fail when new files or datasets from data sources do not conform to the expected schema, leading to downstream job failures, workflow breakdowns, and delayed insights. Additionally, fluctuating data volumes, from a few gigabytes to multiple terabytes, […]