Category: Management & Governance

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In the first two parts of our series, we explored how to scale AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) across AWS Organizations. Part one focused on implementing FIS in a single AWS account environment, introducing the concept of standardized IAM roles and Service Control Policies (SCPs) as guardrails for controlled chaos engineering experiments, particularly in centralized […]

Welcome to part two of our series where we focus on scaling AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) within your organization. In part one, we learned how customers can enable individual accounts within organizations by introducing a Service Control Policies (SCPs) rule to run network experiments when operating with a centralized networking infrastructure. In this blog, […]

AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) empowers you to adopt chaos engineering at scale within your AWS environment. Chaos engineering injects real-world, controlled failures into a system to verify resilience and reliability, ultimately improving the customer experience. This proactive, resilience-focused approach increases your confidence in a system’s ability to respond to adverse conditions in production. You […]

In this post, we will highlight how AWS Config can be used to help organizations implement capabilities related to management and governance, security, and more. Have you ever wondered how to maintain a centralized inventory of resources across your AWS accounts? Do you need to quickly identify the unencrypted resources in your AWS environment? Do you […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) now offers AWS managed notifications, a centralized way to manage and view default notifications in AWS User Notifications. Currently, only AWS Health events are available as managed notifications. With this new feature, you can stay informed about critical updates related to operations and account health. AWS User notifications channels include the […]

This post is co-authored by Grzegorz Kaczor and Daniel Steenbock from Hapag-Lloyd AG and Michael Graumann and Daniel Moser from AWS. Introduction In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, efficient incident management is crucial for maintaining high-quality customer experiences. In our previous article we discussed how the Web and Mobile department at Hapag-Lloyd established observability for serverless […]