AWS Cloud Operations Blog

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Organizations frequently use third-party monitoring tools to retrieve CloudWatch metric data for their dashboards and alerting systems. This practice often leads to significant GetMetricData API usage and results in high CloudWatch costs. A common challenge for cost optimization teams is identifying which specific resources or applications are driving these increased expenses, especially when they’re not […]

Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals extends its powerful monitoring and diagnostic capabilities to AWS Lambda. This integration provides Lambda users with streamlined, no-code application performance monitoring, enabling easy access to key metrics such as invocation duration, error rates, cold starts, and throttling events. By bringing together telemetry data across Lambda functions with metrics, traces, and logs, […]