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Use AWS Systems Manager Automation to automate Snowflake storage integrations with Amazon S3

AWS Systems Manager lets you safely automate common and repetitive IT operations and management tasks. Furthermore, Systems Manager Automation lets you use predefined playbooks, or you can build, run, and share wiki-style automated playbooks to enable AWS resource management across multiple accounts and AWS Regions. Snowflake, the Data Cloud, is an APN Partner that provides […]

Use AWS Systems Manager custom Inventory to locate Log4j files on managed nodes

In this post we will provide guidance to assist customers responding to the recently disclosed Log4j vulnerability by detailing how to use AWS Systems Manager Inventory to locate Log4j JAR files on Linux and Windows Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances and hybrid managed nodes. A hybrid managed node includes on-premises servers, edge devices, and virtual […]

Monitoring underlying hardware failures for EC2 instances by logging them with Amazon OpenSearch Service

With Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) you can spin up a virtual server or instance of various sizes that run on system composed of server, storage, and network hardware. AWS uses status checks to monitor the system on which an EC2 instance runs and detects underlying problems with your instance. These checks are performed […]

How to search through your AWS Systems Manager Session Manager console logs – Part 1

AWS Systems Manager (SSM) in combination with AWS Key Management Services (KMS), Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon OpenSearch allow administrators to encrypt and securely store user session logs, as well as search the log data for information. These tools are easy to integrate and provide powerful analytical capabilities without the undifferentiated heavy lifting. In this series, […]

How to search through your AWS Systems Manager Session Manager console logs – Part 2

AWS System Manager in combination with Amazon Key Management Services (KMS), Amazon CloudWatch, and Amazon Open Search can provide administrators with the ability to encrypt and securely store user session logs and search the log data for information. These tools are easy to integrate and provide powerful analytical capabilities without undifferentiated heavy lifting. In the […]

Build an observability solution using managed AWS services and the OpenTelemetry standard

Open standards, specifically the ones implemented by OpenTelemetry, are becoming the de-facto mechanism of implementing observability for numerous organizations that support this CNCF initiative. This blog post showcases how an organization can easily build a central observability platform with single-pane-of-glass visibility into their various applications that run both in the public cloud as well as […]

Automate AWS Config data visualization with AWS Systems Manager

Earlier this year we published a blog, Visualizing AWS Config data using Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight. It outlines the steps for setting up AWS Config with Amazon Athena and Amazon QuickSight. We received great feedback from that post. To further help our customers adopt these tools we are happy to announce the availability of […]

Using ELB Access Logs and AWS Application Cost Profiler to track tenant cost of shared AWS Infrastructure

In our previous post on AWS Application Cost Profiler (ACP), we demonstrated how application owners instrument a serverless application with tenant metadata in a contextual format using AWS X-Ray. This tenant metadata is necessary for ACP to generate a granular cost breakdown of shared AWS resources used by multi-tenant applications. These granular cost insights let […]

Amazon Athena, Amazon Redshift Plugins and New Features in Amazon Managed Grafana

During late August 2021, we made Amazon Managed Grafana generally available, and around re:Invent we launched some new features, specifically for new plugins. This post provides you with the high-level overview and shows you some of them in action. Amazon Managed Grafana is a fully managed service that handles the provisioning, setup, scaling, and maintenance […]

How Projects Can be Tracked on AWS to Increase Accountability and Reduce Cost

This post was co-authored by Amy McVey and Jarrod Lewis from AER As AWS usage within a business increases over time, it can become difficult to track the AWS resources that have been created (e.g. EC2 instances, S3 buckets) and who is responsible for them. This can lead to unnecessary costs from resources that are […]