AWS Cloud Operations Blog

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6. At AWS re:Invent, cloud enthusiasts from all over the world will gather together to collaborate and learn from one another! You will have the opportunity to meet with AWS experts, […]

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6. At this conference, you’ll have the opportunity to attend thought-provoking keynotes, dive deep into our services, and meet with fellow cloud enthusiasts! No matter your level of expertise, we’ll have sessions […]

Planning to join us in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6 at AWS re:Invent 2024 and looking to learn more about monitoring and observability? If you are, this blog highlights Cloud Operations sessions that focus on monitoring and observability at re:Invent 2024! Monitoring and Observability allows you to understand the health of your applications and […]

Customers operate hundreds of applications and often those applications consist of hundreds to thousands of resources. This can get complex and overwhelming having to monitor and manage individual resources and identifying what resources are tied to an application while making sure their applications are available, secure, cost-optimized, and performing optimally. The underlying concept of applications […]

Customers often spend time finding and managing individual resources within their applications. They need to find various applications, manage and perform application tasks, and monitor resources during different stages of the application lifecycle. Customers usually have hundreds to thousands of resources within even a single AWS account. This requires navigating across multiple AWS services pages […]

This post is co-written with Nicolas Trettel, Cloud Engineering Senior Advisor at Cigna. Monitoring applications and alerting on issues is crucial for building resilient systems. Amazon CloudWatch is a service that monitors applications, responds to performance changes, optimizes resource use, and provides insights into operational health. By collecting data across AWS resources, CloudWatch gives visibility […]

AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides customers with resource inventory, configuration monitoring, and configuration change notifications to support security, governance, and compliance for workloads in AWS. An AWS Config rule represents desired configurations for a resource and evaluates changes in near real-time and records the compliance history in AWS Config. Using AWS […]

Usage of serverless technology in regulated industries like financial services is growing. This growth demands robust resilience validation. Chaos engineering for Serverless has become crucial for ensuring reliable and available serverless applications. By purposefully injecting failures and stresses into serverless components, teams can uncover hidden weaknesses and validate the fault tolerance of their systems. Previously, […]

Generative AI can streamline the Correction of Errors process, saving time and resources. By using generative AI to leverage large language models, combined with the Correction of Errors process, businesses can expedite the identification and documentation of the cause of errors, while saving time and resources. Purpose and set-up The purpose of this blog is […]

AWS Control Tower is the easiest way to set up and govern a security, multi-account AWS environment. A key feature of AWS Control Tower is to deploy and manage controls at scale across an entire AWS Organizations. These controls are categorized based on their behavior and guidance. The behavior of each control is one of […]