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Improve governance and business agility using AWS Management and Governance videos – part 2
This blog post highlights newly published videos on the AWS Management and Governance YouTube channel that help you enable, provision, and operate your AWS environments effectively. The first part of this blog series was published last spring.
The objective of these video-based, hands-on solutions is to enable you to innovate faster while maintaining control over costs, compliance, and security. Let’s dive deep into the details for each of the Management and Governance use cases.
Configuration compliance and auditing
The following videos help you audit and remediate your resource configurations:
- Deploy AWS Config conformance packs using a delegated administrator account
- Simplify custom rule creation using the AWS Config Rule Development Kit
- Manage configuration compliance at scale using AWS Config conformance packs
- Query resource configuration properties using AWS Config advanced query
- Manage and deploy application configurations with AWS AppConfig
- Evaluate third-party resources with AWS Config
Monitoring and observability
The following videos help you improve the health of infrastructure and applications:
- Monitor AWS CloudTrail log data in Amazon CloudWatch
- Monitor application health using CloudWatch ServiceLens
- Monitor your containerized applications and microservices using CloudWatch Container Insights
- Monitor unusual activity in AWS accounts using CloudTrail Insights
- Analyze your applications performance with AWS X-Ray analytics
- Visualize AWS CloudTrail logs in Kibana using Amazon Elasticsearch service
Centralized operations management
The following videos help you manage your operations on AWS:
- Automate image creation in AWS with EC2 Image Builder
- Configure EC2 instances at scale by running Chef recipes with AWS Systems Manager
- Configure session permissions using run as in AWS Systems Manager Session Manager
- Securely access Windows instances using RDP and AWS Systems Manager Session Manager
- Streamline configuration management automation using AWS Systems Manager Run Command
Provisioning and orchestration
The following videos help you build, provision, and share AWS resources:
- Deploy AWS Config conformance packs using AWS CloudFormation
- Accelerate SQL Server deployments with AWS Launch Wizard
- Simplify your infrastructure management using AWS CloudFormation
- Provision resources on AWS using an AWS CloudFormation resource type provider for Terraform
- Check AWS CloudFormation templates for policy compliance using AWS CloudFormation Guard
Enterprise governance and control
The following videos help you establish a centrally managed, secure, multi-account AWS environment:
- Share portfolios across accounts in AWS Service Catalog
- Use AWS Service Catalog service actions with Amazon RDS products
- Manage resource usage with AWS Service Catalog
- Enable end users to launch EMR clusters using AWS Service Catalog
- Configure service actions for end users in AWS Service Catalog
- Automate service limit increases and enterprise support with AWS Control Tower
- Integrate AWS products into your Jira Service Desk portal
- Manage the lifecycle of AWS resources from Jira Service Desk
- Integrate AWS products into your ServiceNow portal via the AWS Service Management Connector (v3.0)
- Enable AWS Control Tower for existing organizations in AWS Organizations
- Simplify your BYOL experience with Dedicated Host management capabilities in AWS License Manager
This list keeps growing as we include new solutions that solve our customers’ challenges. Subscribe to our AWS Management and Governance YouTube channel to get updates when new videos are added. Happy learning!
About the Authors
Harshitha Putta is a Cloud Infrastructure Architect with AWS Professional Services in Seattle, WA. She is passionate about building innovative solutions using AWS services to help customers achieve their business objectives. She enjoys spending time with family and friends, playing board games and hiking.