AWS Cloud Operations Blog
Know Before You Go – AWS re:Invent 2023 Monitoring and Observability, and Centralized Operations Management
We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2023 in Las Vegas from Nov 27 to Dec 1. Whether you’re a seasoned re:Invent veteran or a first-timer, the excitement and opportunities of AWS re:Invent never cease to amaze. With a total of 96 sessions covering the solution areas that […]
How to email your Amazon CloudWatch dashboard
Amazon CloudWatch enables customers to collect monitoring and operational data in the form of logs, metrics, alarms, and events, thereby allowing easy workload visualization and notifications. Many customers use Amazon CloudWatch dashboards to monitor applications and infrastructure insights in order to have a unified dashboard for monitoring. Traditionally, operational health data access was only viewable for […]
Automating Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling with Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics and AWS CDK
Introduction As customers migrate legacy workloads to AWS Cloud, they may need to rehost or replatform applications to Amazon EC2 servers. To benefit from the scalability of cloud, customers need to be able to scale these EC2 servers up or down, on demand and on schedule. Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling Groups provide the on-demand scaling […]
Mark your calendars for AWS Mainframe Modernization sessions @ re: Invent 2023
In just a few weeks, Amazon Web Services (AWS) will host its 12th annual re:Invent for both in-person and virtual attendees. Join us in Las Vegas from November 27th through December 1st for a full week of keynotes, leadership sessions, breakout content, lightning talks and technical deep dives. In the exciting line-up of mainframe-related sessions, […]
Scaling GitHub usage with AWS
Introduction Customers that migrate on-premises enterprise applications to AWS often look for guidance on how to migrate GitHub to AWS. Customers find it challenging to scale as they are constrained by on premises GitHub infrastructure. Organisations that run Github on AWS can get up and running quickly. GitHub on AWS enables teams to collaborate efficiently […]
Lowering MTTR with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray
Customers running microservice-based workloads in a serverless environment frequently have issues with troubleshooting incidents as the data they need can be distributed across hundreds or thousands of components. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how you can reduce the mean time to resolution (MTTR, or the average time it takes to repair or mitigate […]
Unlocking the power: The keys to delivering successful Cloud Migrations
Despite the many benefits of moving to the Cloud, large enterprises frequently struggle to deliver migrations (and the related business transformation) in the planned timeframe. Why? What are the key factors that ensure a successful migration that becomes an oft-quoted industry benchmark for a Cloud driven transformation; rather than a moribund initiative where a number […]
Self-service Account Provisioning Using AWS Service Management Connector for ServiceNow
Many customers are looking to adopt a multi-account strategy within their AWS environment. This allows customers to isolate their workloads into different environments including test, dev, and production in addition to separating workloads based on regulatory requirements. As customers scale their multi-account environments, one strategy to increase agility is to offer business units their own […]
Best practices for managing AWS account meta-data at scale
As we all know, using multiple accounts on your AWS environment is one of the recommended best practices when organizing your workloads and your environment. Using multiple accounts brings multiple benefits allowing you to better leverage AWS services. However, AWS accounts are additional resources that you need to manage. In this blog post, you will […]
How to download your AWS Resilience Hub assessment results
AWS Resilience Hub provides a central place to define, validate, and track the resilience of your application on AWS. It can help in assessing impact of every application change on resiliency by automatically running the assessment on a daily basis or as part of CI/CD pipeline. With AWS Resilience Hub, you can easily create resiliency […]