Tag: Monitoring

Proactive Insights with Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS

March 2, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Today, we are pleased to announce a new Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS capability: Proactive Insights. DevOps Guru for RDS is a fully-managed service powered by machine learning (ML), that uses the data collected by RDS Performance Insights to detect and alert customers of anomalous…

Securely validate business application resilience with AWS FIS and IAM

February 25, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

To avoid high costs of downtime, mission critical applications in the cloud need to achieve resilience against degradation of cloud provider APIs and services. In 2021, AWS launched AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), a fully managed service to perform fault injection experiments on workloads in AWS…

Validating OpenTelemetry Configuration Files with the otel-config-validator

February 22, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

OpenTelemetry provides open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics for application monitoring. The AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) provides a secure production-ready distribution of OpenTelemetry (OTel) that allows for instrumentation and collecting of metrics and traces. The ADOT collector can…

Deliver Operational Insights to Atlassian Opsgenie using DevOps Guru

January 28, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

As organizations continue to grow and scale their applications, the need for teams to be able to quickly and autonomously detect anomalous operational behaviors becomes increasingly important. Amazon DevOps Guru offers a fully managed AIOps service that enables you to improve application availability and resolve…

Managing Dev Environments with Amazon CodeCatalyst

January 24, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

An Amazon CodeCatalyst Dev Environment is a cloud-based development environment that you can use in CodeCatalyst to quickly work on the code stored in the source repositories of your project. The project tools and application libraries included in your Dev Environment are defined by a…

The most visited AWS DevOps blogs in 2022

January 21, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

As we kick off 2023, I wanted to take a moment to highlight the top posts from 2022. Without further ado, here are the top 10 AWS DevOps Blog posts of 2022. #1: Integrating with GitHub Actions – CI/CD pipeline to deploy a Web App…

Manually Approving Security Changes in CDK Pipeline

January 20, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

In this post I will show you how to add a manual approval to AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) Pipelines to confirm security changes before deployment. With this solution, when a developer commits a change, CDK pipeline identifies an IAM permissions change, pauses execution, and…

re:Invent 2022 DevOps and Developer Productivity Playlist

January 15, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Danielle Kucera, Karun Bakshi, and I were privileged to organize the DevOps and Developer Productivity (DOP) track for re:Invent 2022. For 2022, the DOP track included 58 sessions and nearly 100 speakers.  If you weren’t able to attend, I have compiled a list of the on-demand…