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Level up your Cloud Transformation with Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA)
Introduction For organizations moving to the cloud, fully embracing its benefits is not straightforward. Even with strong management buy-in and approved business cases, executional challenges are common. Do the below challenges resonate with what you are facing now in your cloud journey? No single-threaded owner of cloud initiatives, impacting velocity of decision-making Unable to effectively […]
Using Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor time to expiration for Reserved Instances | Amazon Web Services
This post shows you how to monitor the days remaining for Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. The solution uses a custom Amazon CloudWatch metric published via an AWS Lambda function. It creates a CloudWatch alarm and an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic for notification when the alarm exceeds the user-defined threshold. CloudWatch allows you […]
How to use AWS Well-Architected with AWS Trusted Advisor to achieve data-driven cost optimization
Are you looking for ways to optimize your costs on AWS? Are you ensuring that you are taking advantage of all the cost-saving features and services that AWS offers? If not, you should be! In this blog post, we will discuss how to use AWS Well-Architected and AWS Trusted Advisor to achieve data-driven insights that […]
Use port forwarding in AWS Systems Manager Session Manager to connect to remote hosts
We recently announced a new capability within AWS Systems Manager Session Manager that allows forwarding connections from client machines to ports on remote hosts. This enables users to securely access and manage remote servers (databases, web servers, etc.) in the private networks without needing to setup bastion hosts or open additional ports to the outside […]
Achieving Operational Excellence using automated playbook and runbook
An important aspect of operational readiness is having a well-defined process to perform activities in your workload for various scenarios as indicated in Question 7 of Operational Excellence pillar in AWS Well-Architected Framework. Which aims at evaluating your workload’s readiness for operation, from process and personnel perspective. In the case of Incident response, a team […]
Streamline Automation with Outbound Webhooks for AWS Systems Manager Runbooks
Automation runbooks let you define a set of actions that automate various operations in your AWS environment. Runbooks allow our customers to simply configure automation workflows that they can execute based on either events or a scheduled cadence. These workflows commonly require integration with third-party systems, such as Slack, Jira, and ServiceNow. As of January […]