AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Category: Management & Governance
Automate installing AWS Systems Manager agent on unmanaged Amazon EC2 nodes
Managing a fleet of AWS resources at scale can be challenging. Organizations rely on multiple solutions to automate tasks, collect inventory, patch instances, and maintain security compliance. Organizations need to access instances without opening inbound ports or managing SSH keys. AWS Systems Manager (SSM) simplifies this by serving as a centralized management solution that supports […]
Simulating partial failures with AWS Fault Injection Service
Modern distributed systems must be resilient to unexpected disruptions to maintain availability, performance, and stability. Chaos engineering helps teams uncover hidden weaknesses by deliberately injecting faults into a system and observing how it recovers. While traditional testing validates expected behavior, chaos engineering tests system resilience during failures. AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) is a […]
Observing Agentic AI workloads using Amazon CloudWatch
Introduction As the adoption of agentic AI applications continues to grow, ensuring the reliability, performance, and overall observability of these systems becomes increasingly critical. Agentic AI applications, powered by large language models (LLM) and integrated with various data sources and APIs, can quickly become complex, making it challenging to gain visibility into their inner workings […]
How Indegene Optimizes User Experience with Amazon CloudWatch
In today’s digital healthcare landscape, optimal application performance and user experience are crucial for business success. Indegene, a digital-first life sciences commercialization company, combines deep medical expertise with domain-contextualized technology to help clients accelerate innovation, modernize operations, and improve customer experience. With the world’s top 20 pharma companies among its clientele, Indegene brings an AI-first […]
New: AWS CloudTrail Lake Event Enrichment: Add Business Context to AWS Activity Logs
AWS customers use AWS CloudTrail Lake to aggregate and analyze their AWS activity for security, operational troubleshooting, and compliance purposes. However, when investigating security incidents or conducting compliance audits, customers often need additional business context beyond the basic event details – like which team or project owns the affected resources, or what where the properties […]
Gain Compliance Insights in your AWS Environment Using Amazon Q Business
Enterprise organizations managing multiple AWS accounts face complexity as their cloud infrastructure scales. The exponential growth in resources, coupled with diverse configuration requirements across different business units, creates significant challenges in maintaining effective oversight of AWS environments. AWS Config is a service that continually assesses, audits, and evaluates the configurations and relationships of your resources […]
Maximizing Multi-Region Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub
In today’s fast-paced digital world, business continuity isn’t just a goal — it’s an achievable reality. As organizations continue to innovate and grow, their cloud-based applications have become the beating heart of modern business operations, delivering value to customers around the clock. Companies are taking their cloud strategy to the next level by embracing multi-Region […]
Key Governance, Risk, and Compliance Sessions at re:Inforce 2025
We are incredibly excited to see you at AWS re:Inforce, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 16-18, 2025. This year’s Governance, Risk, and Compliance track features sessions on automating compliance, enhancing risk visibility, using generative AI for business growth, and maintaining security at scale, including 5 breakout sessions, 8 builder sessions, 7 chalk talks, 2 code […]
Build Golden Images with CIS Linux Build Kit within Amazon EC2 Image Builder
The build and rollout of hardened and certified operating systems (OS) is an imperative of any Cloud Operations (CloudOps) or Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) team within an organization. The guideline and security controls to certify the images come from the respective teams within your organization who, in turn, refer to the popular industry wide […]
Manage Custom AWS Config Rules with Remediation Using AWS Config Conformance Pack
Introduction Organizations face unique compliance requirements across their AWS resources and accounts. While AWS Config provides managed rules, many organizations need custom rules and automated remediation capabilities that can scale across their AWS Organization. This blog post demonstrates how to use AWS Config custom conformance pack to deploy and manage custom rules with remediation actions […]