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New: AWS CloudTrail Lake Event Enrichment: Add Business Context to AWS Activity Logs

AWS customers use AWS CloudTrail Lake to aggregate and analyze their AWS activity for security, operational troubleshooting, and compliance purposes. However, when investigating security incidents or conducting compliance audits, customers often need additional business context beyond the basic event details – like which team or project owns the affected resources, or what where the properties […]

Visualizing Amazon DynamoDB data with Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Managed Grafana

Visualizing Amazon DynamoDB data with Amazon OpenSearch Service and Amazon Managed Grafana

High-performance applications with unlimited throughput capabilities pose significant monitoring challenges, especially when tracking real-time metrics, utilization, and throttling events across distributed database workloads. Near real-time visibility into metrics is crucial for application performance and cost optimization. AWS allows you to seamlessly integrate multiple services to tackle these operational complexities. With Amazon DynamoDB, you can build […]

Gain Compliance Insights in your AWS Environment Using Amazon Q Business

Gain Compliance Insights in your AWS Environment Using Amazon Q Business

Enterprise organizations managing multiple AWS accounts face complexity as their cloud infrastructure scales. The exponential growth in resources, coupled with diverse configuration requirements across different business units, creates significant challenges in maintaining effective oversight of AWS environments. AWS Config is a service that continually assesses, audits, and evaluates the configurations and relationships of your resources […]

Maximizing Multi-Region Resilience with AWS Resilience Hub

In today’s fast-paced digital world, business continuity isn’t just a goal — it’s an achievable reality. As organizations continue to innovate and grow, their cloud-based applications have become the beating heart of modern business operations, delivering value to customers around the clock. Companies are taking their cloud strategy to the next level by embracing multi-Region […]

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 […]

Automate registering Windows managed nodes with AWS Systems Manager

Automate registering Windows managed nodes with AWS Systems Manager

Managing hybrid infrastructure across AWS and on-premises environments presents a layer of operational complexity for managing nodes. Some teams use different tools to manage these systems based on the platform they are running on, while others use licensed Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software. Teams can use AWS Systems Manager hybrid activations to manage on-premise […]

Build Golden Images with CIS Linux Build Kit within Amazon EC2 Image Builder

Build Golden Images with CIS Linux Build Kit within Amazon EC2 Image Builder

The build and rollout of hardened and certified operating systems (OS) is an imperative of any Cloud Operations (CloudOps) or Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) team within an organization. The guideline and security controls to certify the images come from the respective teams within your organization who, in turn, refer to the popular industry wide […]

Tracing ETL Workloads using AWS X-ray and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

Tracing ETL Workloads using AWS X-Ray and AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry

Introduction Data pipelines are essential for modern data-driven companies to gain critical business insights. However, data pipelines commonly fail when new files or datasets from data sources do not conform to the expected schema, leading to downstream job failures, workflow breakdowns, and delayed insights. Additionally, fluctuating data volumes, from a few gigabytes to multiple terabytes, […]

Simplify AWS Cost Data Analysis with Amazon Q in QuickSight

Overview Financial teams across industries are seeking agile solutions that provide rapid insights, enabling timely and informed decisions to manage costs effectively. AWS makes it easy to build and scale generative AI by adding capabilities to its suite of analytics tools. Amazon Q in QuickSight offers an in-depth analysis with additional granularity and dimensionality (e.g., […]

Monitor AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs centrally using Amazon Managed Grafana

Monitor AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs centrally using Amazon Managed Grafana

As organizations continue to expand their cloud infrastructure by connecting multiple Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPC) across accounts and regions, the complexity of managing their network environment increases. AWS Transit Gateway has emerged as a powerful solution to simplify this complexity by providing a centralized hub for secure communication between Amazon VPCs, on-premises systems, and […]