Category: Management Tools

In this post, AWS and Ziff Davis collaborated to tackle server management challenges by implementing an automated solution using EC2 Image Builder and AWS Systems Manager. The solution addressed issues of inconsistent configurations, undocumented processes, and manual patching, resulting in improved efficiency, consistency, and disaster recovery capabilities for Ziff Davis’s virtual phone number services.

In this post, we detail the concepts, processes, and steps to get started with policy as code (PaC) and adopt this into your software development lifecycle. PaC can improve your overall security posture, improve consistency of service usage across your organization, and reduce rework or workloads deployed to your AWS accounts.

Learn about Turbot’s cloud scripting engine Flowpipe along with practical examples for automating cloud operations on AWS.

Learn how to get real-time notifications from AWS Security Hub and query for solutions in Slack, Microsoft Teams, or Amazon Chime using AWS Chatbot integrated with Amazon Q.

Learn how to refresh AWS Secret Manager secrets in long-running Amazon ECS tasks through automation using a Lambda function and a CloudFormation resource.

Learn how to configure an IAM Roles Anywhere solution that lets AWS Partner CRM Connector users authenticate with Salesforce using temporary AWS credentials, eliminating the need to hardcode them.

Learn about some common approaches for collecting data from multiple AWS services across your organization, including common patterns with code samples that you can reuse to consume the data.

Learn how to use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to automate and simplify data protection without duplicating existing backups on Amazon EBS, a high-performance block-storage service designed for Amazon EC2.

Learn how the AWS Quick Start team reduced documentation delays by implementing a docs-as-code solution based on GitHub and AsciiDoc.

Learn how to use Amazon EKS Blueprints for CDK to simplify integration of common tooling and provisioning of complete, opinionated EKS clusters that meet specific application requirements. This solution is designed to replace the deprecated Amazon EKS Quick Start.