Category: Business Intelligence

Introduction Monitoring and managing your AWS environment is critical to maintaining security and operational excellence. With the availability of AWS CloudTrail Lake data for zero-ETL analysis in Amazon Athena, you can use Athena to query your activity logs in CloudTrail Lake without the operational complexity of moving data or building data processing pipelines. CloudTrail Lake […]

Responding to security findings is important for maintaining the security posture of your Amazon Web Service (AWS) environment. By promptly addressing identified vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, or potential threats, you can mitigate risks, protect your data and resources, and help ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements. As shown in Image 1, effective incident response follows a […]

Overview A key benefit of using the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud is the ability to pay only for the services you consume. This granular control and elastic model enables you to achieve substantial savings compared to on-premise infrastructure. The practice of ensuring you are getting the most value for your investment, and a foundational pillar […]

For organizations with multiple AWS accounts, staying on top of planned AWS service changes and events is critical to keep operations and business running smoothly. Organizations use AWS Health for ongoing visibility into resource performance and the availability of AWS services and accounts, but the volume of notifications from AWS Health can sometimes be overwhelming. […]

Detecting security risks and investigating the corresponding findings is essential for protecting your AWS environment from potential threats, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your data and resources for your business needs. As shown in Image 1, effective incident response follows a systematic approach of identifying, detecting, investigating, prioritizing, and resolving security findings. By analyzing […]

AWS Service Catalog (Service Catalog) is a powerful tool that empowers organizations to manage and govern approved services and resources. It significantly benefits platform engineering by standardizing environments, accelerating service delivery, and enhancing security. With its automated provisioning and resource management, Service Catalog supports infrastructure as code, enabling scalable, reliable deployments. Platform engineering teams are […]

AWS CloudTrail Insights is a powerful feature within AWS CloudTrail that helps organizations identify and respond to unusual operational activity in their AWS accounts. This includes identifying spikes in resource provisioning, bursts of IAM actions, or gaps in periodic maintenance activity. CloudTrail Insights continuously analyzes CloudTrail management events from trails and event data stores, establishing […]

In today’s digital landscape, customers have complex and distributed workloads running on AWS, involving a large number of AWS resources across multiple services. Tackling security risks across numerous resources can seem daunting, but with the right approach following best practices, can be addressed in a timely manner. As shown in Image 1, effective incident response follows […]

The recent rise of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) solutions presents challenges to migrations that are in flight and to migrations that are just beginning. The business problem is that generative AI complicates cloud migrations by introducing additional risks related to data isolation, data sharing, and service costs. For example, the US Space Force has […]