AWS Cloud Operations Blog

AWS Organizations provides capabilities for AWS customers to centrally manage accounts in their multi-account environment. As the business landscape evolves, customers may need to close multiple AWS accounts or an entire organization. This could take place during mergers and acquisitions, to support cleanup efforts which reduce cost from unused resources, or decommissioning a venture or […]

Today we are excited to announce that you can now easily ingest Amazon EBS detailed performance statistics from your Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) workloads into an Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus workspace. We recently announced the availability of EBS detailed performance statistics, which gives you real-time visibility into the performance of your EBS […]

Keeping Amazon Machine Image (AMI) up-to-date with the latest patches and updates is a critical task for organizations using AWS Auto Scaling group . However, manually patching AMIs and updating Auto Scaling groups can be time-consuming for your teams and error-prone. This blog post presents a solution to automate the process of updating AMIs for […]

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6. At AWS re:Invent, cloud enthusiasts from all over the world will gather together to collaborate and learn from one another! You will have the opportunity to meet with AWS experts, […]

We are so excited to see you at our annual cloud computing conference, AWS re:Invent 2024 in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6. At this conference, you’ll have the opportunity to attend thought-provoking keynotes, dive deep into our services, and meet with fellow cloud enthusiasts! No matter your level of expertise, we’ll have sessions […]

Planning to join us in Las Vegas from Dec 2 to Dec 6 at AWS re:Invent 2024 and looking to learn more about monitoring and observability? If you are, this blog highlights Cloud Operations sessions that focus on monitoring and observability at re:Invent 2024! Monitoring and Observability allows you to understand the health of your applications and […]

Customers operate hundreds of applications and often those applications consist of hundreds to thousands of resources. This can get complex and overwhelming having to monitor and manage individual resources and identifying what resources are tied to an application while making sure their applications are available, secure, cost-optimized, and performing optimally. The underlying concept of applications […]

Customers often spend time finding and managing individual resources within their applications. They need to find various applications, manage and perform application tasks, and monitor resources during different stages of the application lifecycle. Customers usually have hundreds to thousands of resources within even a single AWS account. This requires navigating across multiple AWS services pages […]

This post is co-written with Nicolas Trettel, Cloud Engineering Senior Advisor at Cigna. Monitoring applications and alerting on issues is crucial for building resilient systems. Amazon CloudWatch is a service that monitors applications, responds to performance changes, optimizes resource use, and provides insights into operational health. By collecting data across AWS resources, CloudWatch gives visibility […]

AWS Config is a fully managed service that provides customers with resource inventory, configuration monitoring, and configuration change notifications to support security, governance, and compliance for workloads in AWS. An AWS Config rule represents desired configurations for a resource and evaluates changes in near real-time and records the compliance history in AWS Config. Using AWS […]