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Scaling AWS Governance: How Moeve reduced response times with automated notifications

Moeve, formerly known as Cepsa, is a global integrated energy company with over 90 years of experience and more than 11,000 employees. Moeve is committed to driving Europe’s energy transition and accelerating decarbonization efforts. The company has embraced digital transformation to enhance energy efficiency, safety, and sustainability, focusing on investments in green hydrogen, second-generation biofuels, […]

Simplify AWS Control Tower governance with enhanced AWS CloudFormation Hooks

Introduction Organizations using AWS Control Tower to govern their multi-account environments face a persistent challenge: when AWS CloudFormation deployments fail due to proactive control violations, teams receive minimal information about why the failure occurred or how to fix it. This lack of visibility leads to: Delayed deployments as developers struggle to understand cryptic error messages […]

Featured image for the blog post Deploying custom Terraform to LZA-Managed Accounts with AFT

Deploying custom Terraform to LZA-Managed Accounts with AFT

As organizations scale their AWS environments, managing infrastructure consistently while enabling team autonomy becomes increasingly challenging. Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) and AWS Account Factory for Terraform (AFT) both extend AWS Control Tower to help customers manage AWS environments at scale, offering complementary strengths. Many AWS customers struggle to balance centralized security governance with […]

Innovation sandbox on AWS with real-time analytics dashboard

Innovation sandbox on AWS with real-time analytics dashboard

How do you deploy hundreds of AWS accounts for a large-scale hackathon? Provide real-time visibility to leadership? Enable participant self-service while monitoring spending across accounts? Enterprise innovation events often lack real-time visibility into participant engagement, resource utilization, and outcomes. Leaders can’t see engagement metrics; builders can’t access accounts and information on-demand. Without observability and governance, […]

Investigating Service Issues with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals Custom Metrics

Investigating Service Issues with Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals Custom Metrics

When a critical service fails, you need to know how much revenue you’re losing, not just that latency has increased. This post shows you how to integrate business metrics with CloudWatch Application Signals to see both technical performance and business impact in one unified view. With CloudWatch Application Signals, you can view metrics, traces, and […]

Search and discover governance controls with Control Catalog in AWS Control Tower

Search and discover governance controls with Control Catalog in AWS Control Tower

As you scale your AWS environment from hundreds to thousands of AWS accounts, maintaining consistent governance standards across this expanded infrastructure requires a strategic approach. Governance controls—the automated policies and rules that enforce standards across your cloud infrastructure—are essential for managing this scale, but implementing them presents two fundamental challenges. First, without proper controls, a […]

Resolve application issues autonomously with AWS DevOps Agent (Preview) and Dynatrace

Application issues require fast resolution to maintain business continuity and customer satisfaction, but manual investigation creates delays that can cost organizations significantly in lost revenue and productivity. Last week, we launched AWS DevOps Agent (Preview), a frontier agent that resolves and proactively prevents incidents, continuously improving reliability and performance of applications in AWS, multicloud, and […]

Troubleshoot AWS Tagging Compliance with AWS Resource Explorer

With AWS Resource Explorer’s immediate resource discovery launch on October 13, 2025, customers can now discover resources from their very first search in Unified Search in the AWS Management Console or the Resource Explorer console. Operations like troubleshooting and problem resolution, making resource changes, investigating resource dependencies, identifying security risks, and optimizing costs are critical […]

Amazon CloudWatch RUM now supports mobile application monitoring

Amazon CloudWatch RUM now supports iOS and Android applications, expanding real user monitoring beyond web applications. Developers and SREs can now quickly isolate mobile application issues and improve end-user experience, with visibility into performance metrics such as screen load times, crash rates, and API latencies.

2025 Top 10 Announcements for AWS Cloud Operations

2025 Top 10 Announcements for AWS Cloud Operations

At AWS re:Invent 2025, we’re excited to share latest innovations designed to empower organizations to thrive in the transformative AI era. This year’s top Cloud Operations announcements address the most pressing challenges our customers face today—from gaining comprehensive visibility into generative AI workloads to significantly accelerating incident resolution and efficiently managing the exponential growth of […]