AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry is now GA for tracing

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAWS Distro for OpenTelemetry is now GA for tracing AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) is now generally available with production-ready tracing support. You can download the latest ADOT Collector image from the Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) Public Gallery. Highlights End-to-end support for collecting, processing, and exporting traces. OTLP v 0.9.0 fully supported.…

Coming January 2022: An updated Amazon QuickSight sign-in experience

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedComing January 2022: An updated Amazon QuickSight sign-in experience Starting January 2022, the Amazon QuickSight will undergo minor updates, such as changes in the sign-in domain and a new look and feel while signing in. This won’t impact your access to QuickSight. In this post, we walk through changes to expect in the sign-in…

Introducing the Ransomware Risk Management on AWS Whitepaper

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedIntroducing the Ransomware Risk Management on AWS Whitepaper AWS recently released the Ransomware Risk Management on AWS Using the NIST Cyber Security Framework (CSF) whitepaper. This whitepaper aligns the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommendations for security controls that are related to ransomware risk management, for workloads built on AWS. The whitepaper…

Adding StatefulSet support in the OpenTelemetry Operator

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedAdding StatefulSet support in the OpenTelemetry Operator In this post, AWS interns, software engineers Huy Vo and Iris Song, share their experience with adding StatefulSet support in the OpenTelemetry Operator and their design approach to building a scrape target update service into the OpenTelemetry Collector’s Prometheus receiver. OpenTelemetry (OTEL) is a popular open source…

Govern your applications centrally using AppRegistry and Application Manager

By Dustin Ward

AWS FeedGovern your applications centrally using AppRegistry and Application Manager The customers I work with often handle multiple applications in their cloud environments. In general, an application includes multiple AWS resources deployed via AWS CloudFormation stacks, APIs, or other infrastructure as code tools. My customers often ask me about efficient mechanisms for managing the resources and…