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AWS Config is a service that enables you to audit your AWS resources for compliance to a desired configuration state. You are billed based on the number of Configuration Items (a point-in-time snapshot of an AWS resource) recorded and the number of AWS Config rules (a function that reports resource compliancy) evaluated per resource per […]

Most of my enterprise customers have the need to allow their users to execute self-service operational tasks while restricting access to a minimum set of services. With AWS Service Catalog, you can provision pre-approved products, when combined with AWS Service Catalog service actions, you can provide simple predefined actions associated with the AWS Service Catalog […]

Logging and monitoring are critical components of a governance, risk, and compliance strategy. When you use AWS CloudTrail with AWS Organizations, you get an eagle-eye view of account activity across your AWS infrastructure. However, as your enterprise scales workloads in the cloud and accelerates cloud use, the logs can increase exponentially. Over time, you can […]

Learn with Shree on how to use AWS License Manager API operations to manage your Oracle licenses (for databases running on Amazon RDS for Oracle, Amazon EC2 and on-premises servers) based on Oracle cloud policy. Additionally, learn how to use the built-in integration of License Manager API operations with AWS CloudTrail to prepare for vendor audit.

Customers are constantly looking to innovate in order to remain competitive in their respective markets. One way to achieving such competitiveness is through the ability to build services and applications fast and cost effectively, thereby reducing time to market while driving down costs. One of the feedback we regularly get from customers is that, applications […]

AWS Config can create issue entries in the Jira Service Management platform when it determines an AWS resource is noncompliant. In this blog post, I show you how to configure an AWS Config rule to create a Jira issue after the rule detects a noncompliant AWS resource. I also share Jira Service Desk configuration changes […]

As organizations migrate workloads to the cloud, they want to ensure their teams spend more time on tasks that move the organization forward and less time managing infrastructure. Installing patches and configuring software is what AWS calls undifferentiated heavy lifting, or the hard IT work that doesn’t add value to the mission of the organization. […]

Contributor Insights is a feature of AWS CloudWatch that can be used to analyze log data to create time series that displays contributor data. This will help you understand who or what is impacting your system and application performance by identifying top talkers, pinpointing outliers, finding the heaviest traffic patterns, and ranking the top system […]

Customers who are running fleets of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances use advanced monitoring techniques to observe their operational performance. Capabilities like aggregated and custom dimensions help customers categorize and customize their metrics across server fleets for fast and efficient decision making. Customers need visibility not only into infrastructure metrics (like CPU and […]

VPC sharing allows customers to share subnets from a central AWS account with other AWS accounts in the same organization created in AWS Organizations. Centralized control of your virtual private cloud (VPC) structure allows you to maintain separation of duties through AWS account boundaries. A best practice for creating VPCs and other resources in the AWS […]