Tag: Management and Governance

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

System Administrators face a never-ending list of tasks in IT organizations, with one of the most critical being the installation and updating of software packages. This process is essential for maintaining a secure posture across systems. However, as the number of servers grows, manually managing updates becomes increasingly time-consuming and inefficient. The challenge we’re addressing […]

An effective patch management is foremost for maintaining system security, reliability, and compliance across your IT infrastructure. AWS Systems Manager (SSM) provides a comprehensive patching solution, enabling you to automate the deployment of operating system updates to your nodes deployed on AWS, on-premises, and multicloud environments. However, as your organization scales, tracking and reporting on […]

In this post, we explore how you can incorporate HashiCorp Terraform to manage your Amazon Web Services (AWS) application infrastructure after using AWS Control Tower with Landing Zone Accelerator on AWS (LZA) to manage your AWS ecosystem. The LZA deploys a cloud foundation that is architected to align with AWS best practices and multiple global […]

As organizations increasingly adopt cloud services, they often face the challenge of hosting diverse workloads with varying cost structures and budget constraints. To establish a solid foundation for cost optimization without compromising operational efficiency in your cloud operations, it’s essential to manage your cloud expenses efficiently. This aligns with the AWS Well-Architected Cost Optimization pillar, […]

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 […]

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, […]