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Learn from AWS Fault Injection Service team’s approach to Game Days
In today’s digital world, availability and reliability are crucial competitive advantages. For DevOps and SRE teams, the ability to respond quickly and effectively to incidents can mean the difference between a minor issue and a major disruption of service that impacts millions of customers. Teams must have clear-cut runbooks and appropriate observability to be ready […]
Alarming on SLOs in Amazon Search with CloudWatch Application Signals – Part 2
In practice: SLO monitoring with CloudWatch Application Signals In the previous post, we’ve shared the basic concepts and benefits of burn rate monitoring. In this post, we, the Amazon Product Search team, will share anecdotes from our migration from an in-house solution to CloudWatch Application Signals, and introduce how we actually implement monitoring and dashboards. […]
Alarming on SLOs in Amazon Search with CloudWatch Application Signals – Part 1
In theory: SLO concepts applied to Amazon Product Search In this series of posts, we will show you how we, the Amazon Product Search team, monitor key systems using Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and share our migration journey from an in-house solution to Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals. Amazon Product Search is a large distributed system […]
Launching Amazon CloudWatch generative AI observability (Preview)
As organizations rapidly deploy large language models (LLMs) and generative AI agents to power increasingly intelligent workloads, they struggle to monitor and troubleshoot the complex interactions within their AI applications. Traditional monitoring tools fall short in providing the visibility across components, leading to developers and AI/ML engineers to manually correlate interaction logs or building custom […]
SAP on AWS – Streamlined Operations and Monitoring
SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are at the core of many enterprises, supporting a wide range of mission-critical processes, including Procure to Pay, Order to Cash, Production Planning, Financial Accounting, Supply Chain Management (SCM), and Human Capital Management. Given the critical role of SAP ERP, maintaining the stability, security, and efficiency of these ERP […]
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 […]
Observing Agentic AI workloads using Amazon CloudWatch agent
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How Hapag-Lloyd automated incident management using AWS Step Functions
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 […]