TL;DR What if you could go from raw Amazon S3 server access logs to a complete security dashboard without building a custom pipeline? The dashboard below is deployed using the CloudFormation template provided in this post. Figure 1: Amazon S3 Server Access Logs Security, Compliance & Audit Dashboard Until now, getting security visibility from Amazon [...]
Teams working with distributed applications accumulate logs across multiple log groups, including application logs, access logs, and audit trails. When something needs investigating, an engineer opens the console and starts writing queries from scratch. The same query gets written differently by different people. The results lack context because the log event does not contain who [...]
If your engineering organization uses AI coding agents like Claude Code, usage is likely growing faster than your ability to track it. Token consumption, cost per team, and developer productivity are questions that existing dashboards don’t answer, because the telemetry never made it to your observability backend. With Amazon CloudWatch OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) in General [...]
As organizations scale their AI and machine learning workloads on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), GPU instances often represent the largest portion of compute costs. Without granular visibility into how these resources are consumed, teams struggle to attribute costs accurately. Consider a shared EKS cluster where Team A (Research) runs experimental ML models on [...]
Many AWS customers move their AWS accounts between organizations When your company manages more than one organization, and whether you regularly move accounts between them; or you are consolidating accounts after a merger, acquisition, or divesture. Account migrations are part of operating on AWS. Previously, moving an account meant removing it from the source organization, making it standalone, then inviting it to the target organization. For accounts with AWS Resource Access [...]
If you run Kubernetes or microservices workloads on AWS, you probably track latency, request durations, and other value distributions with Prometheus histograms. To do that with classic histograms, you predefine a set of bucket boundaries, and Prometheus emits one time series per boundary plus a sum and a count. A single latency histogram with 20 [...]
Introduction Robust patch management is essential for maintaining system security, reliability, and compliance across your IT infrastructure. AWS Systems Manager Patch Manager provides a full-featured patching solution, enabling you to automate the deployment of operating system updates to managed nodes across AWS accounts, on-premises, and multicloud environments. However, as your organization scales across dozens or [...]
Introduction Pinterest launched in 2009 with a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love. As one of the early cloud pioneers, Pinterest grew to hundreds of thousands of resources and exabytes of data within a single AWS account well before most cloud-native organizations operated at that scale or the best [...]
Building resilience within cloud workloads is an important goal for ISVs to prevent application downtime, increase system reliability, and build customer trust. Honeycomb.io is a fast and collaborative observability platform for software developers and engineering teams to understand and troubleshoot their cloud-native applications. Honeycomb gives you the rich context at sub-second query speeds and AI-assisted [...]
Welcome to the first edition of the AWS Observability ICYMI (In Case You Missed It) recap! The first five months of 2026 has been transformational for AWS observability with over 40 launches across Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, Amazon Managed Grafana, and Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. Two major themes defined this period: OpenTelemetry as the [...]