Today, I’m excited to announce new updates to AWS CloudTrail Lake, which is a managed data lake you can use to aggregate, immutably store, and query events recorded by AWS CloudTrail for auditing, security investigation, and operational troubleshooting. The new updates in CloudTrail Lake are: Enhanced filtering options for CloudTrail events Cross-account sharing of event data stores General availability of the generative AI–powered natural language query generation AI-powered query results summarization capability in preview Comprehensive dashboard capabilities, including a high-level overview dashboard with AI-powered insights (AI-powered insights is in preview), a suite of 14 pre-built dashboards for various use cases, and the ability to create custom dashboards with scheduled refreshes Let’s look into the new features one by one. Enhanced…
Month: November 2024
Track performance of serverless applications built using AWS Lambda with Application Signals
In November 2023, we announced Amazon CloudWatch Application Signals, an AWS built-in application performance monitoring (APM) solution, to solve the complexity associated with monitoring performance of distributed systems for applications hosted on Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS, and Amazon EC2. Application Signals automatically correlates telemetry across metrics, traces, and logs, to speed up troubleshooting and reduce application disruption. By providing an integrated experience for analyzing performance in the context of your applications, Application Signals gives you improved productivity focusing on the applications that support your most critical business functions. Today we’re announcing the availability of Application Signals for AWS Lambda to eliminate the complexities of manual setup and performance issues required to assess application health for Lambda functions. With CloudWatch Application…
Announcing a visual update to the AWS Management Console (preview)
Today, we are announcing a visual update to the AWS Management Console in preview. We are rolling out this update by using the latest version of Cloudscape, the Amazon Web Services (AWS) design system used to build intuitive, inclusive, and meaningful AWS experiences at scale. In this post, I describe how the visual update makes it easier for you to scan content, focus on the key information, and find what you are looking for more effectively while preserving the familiar and consistent experience of the AWS Management Console. Improved readability A revised typography scale and improved treatment of headings result in a stronger visual hierarchy, which helps you to better locate and understand your data. A refined use of color…
Introducing Amazon CloudFront VPC origins: Enhanced security and streamlined operations for your applications
I’m happy to introduce the release of Amazon CloudFront Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) origins, a new feature that enables content delivery from applications hosted in private subnets within their Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC). This makes it easy to secure web applications, allowing you to focus on growing your businesses while improving security and maintaining high-performance and global scalability with CloudFront. Customers serving content from Amazon Simple Storage Solution (Amazon S3), AWS Elemental Services and AWS Lambda Function URLs can use Origin Access Control as a managed solution to secure their origins, and make CloudFront the single front-door to your application. However, this was more difficult to achieve for applications that are hosted on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon…