AWS Cloud Operations Blog

Category: Announcements

Key Governance, Risk, and Compliance Sessions at re:Inforce 2025

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 […]

Announcing AWS CloudTrail network activity events for VPC Endpoints

Today, we are excited to announce AWS CloudTrail network activity for VPC endpoints, a new event type that captures actions transmitted through a Virtual Private Cloud Endpoint. In this preview, this new event type captures network activity events from VPC endpoints for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Key Management Service (KMS), Amazon S3, and […]

Introducing Just-in-time node access using AWS Systems Manager

Introducing Just-in-time node access using AWS Systems Manager

Today, we’re excited to announce the general availability of just-in-time node access, a new capability in AWS Systems Manager. Just-in-time node access enables dynamic, time-bound access to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), on-premises, and multicloud nodes managed by AWS Systems Manager. It uses a policy-based approval process, allowing you to remove long-standing access while […]

New AWS Fault Injection Service recovery action for zonal autoshift

We’re excited to announce that AWS Fault Injection Service (FIS) now supports a recovery action for Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) zonal autoshift. With this integration, you can now perform more comprehensive testing by creating disruptive events and trigger a zonal autoshift as part of the same experiment. That way, you can observe how your application […]

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds runtime metrics support for Java, Python and .Net applications

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals adds runtime metrics support for Java, Python and .Net applications

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals now supports runtime metrics for Java, Python and .Net applications. This new capability lets you monitor application runtime metrics directly in Amazon CloudWatch, helping you correlate application performance signals and improve application observability. Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals automatically instruments your applications running on AWS, so that you can monitor your application […]

Manage and view your AWS Health notifications in AWS User Notifications service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) now offers AWS managed notifications, a centralized way to manage and view default notifications in AWS User Notifications. Currently, only AWS Health events are available as managed notifications. With this new feature, you can stay informed about critical updates related to operations and account health. AWS User notifications channels include the […]

AWS launches enhanced AWS Resource Explorer features for new resource insights

AWS launches enhanced AWS Resource Explorer features for new resource insights

Today, we are excited to announce a significant enhancement to AWS Resource Explorer that delivers a unified view of centralized resource insights and properties from AWS services. With the enhanced Resource Explorer experience, relevant data and insights from multiple AWS services is centralized for supported resource types. Customers use keyword-based search to return a list […]

Top Announcements for AWS Cloud Operations at re:Invent 2024

Figure 1. AWS launches new capabilities to help you transform your IT operations. At re:Invent 2024, Nandini Ramani, VP Search, Observability & Cloud Ops, provided a glimpse of how AWS is building the future of cloud operations. The four sections of this blog post cover the top AWS Cloud Operations announcements to help you transform […]

Monitor EBS Detailed Performance Statistics with Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus

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 […]

Leveraging existing tagging strategies for Application Operations

Leveraging existing tagging strategies for Application Operations

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 […]