CloudWatch alarms are often treated as notification tools, but AWS can use them as the start of a controlled remediation workflow. Metric alarms detect conditions, […]
SOA-C03 — Cloud Operations
Amazon AWS SOA-C03: Systems Manager Automation Runbooks
AWS Systems Manager Automation turns operational procedures into repeatable workflows called runbooks. Instead of relying on an engineer to remember a sequence of console clicks […]
Amazon AWS SOA-C03: Choosing AWS Backup, EBS Snapshots, or AMIs
AWS Backup, Amazon EBS snapshots, and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) all participate in EC2 recovery, but they operate at different layers. An EBS snapshot protects […]
Amazon AWS SOA-C03: CloudFormation vs AWS CDK for CloudOps
AWS CloudFormation and the AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) are often presented as competing infrastructure-as-code choices, but operationally they sit at different layers. CloudFormation is […]
Amazon AWS SOA-C03: VPC Flow Logs, Reachability Analyzer, and Network Monitoring
AWS network troubleshooting is easier when the question is classified before a tool is opened. VPC Flow Logs provide metadata about observed IP flows. Reachability […]