Top announcements for AWS Cloud Operations

At re:Invent 2024, Nandini Ramani, VP Search, Observability & Cloud Ops, provided a glimpse of how AWS is building the future of cloud operations. The four sections of this blog post cover the top AWS Cloud Operations announcements to help you transform your cloud operations to be more agile, efficient, and secure. These capabilities can help you 1/transform your operational investigations, 2/ transform your cloud governance, 3/ transform how you observe your infrastructure, applications, networks, databases, and containers, and 4/ transform how you analyze what you observe.

Summary

AWS announced powerful new capabilities for to help you make operations more secure, agile, efficient, and intelligent at AWS re:Invent 2024. With new AI-powered capabilities, such as those available in Amazon Q Developer in preview and in Amazon CloudTrail Lake, you can accelerate operational investigations across your AWS environment. You can improve your foundation with governance capabilities such as enhanced node management in Systems Manager, and new preventative controls with Declarative Policies and resource control policies. To address observability challenges, AWS introduced new CloudWatch features, such as adding context to telemetry, monitor network flows, database insights for Amazon Aurora, enhanced observability for ECS, etc. With application transaction spans in CloudWatch, new Zero ETL integrations, and improvements in OpenSearch Service, you can transform how you analyze operational and security data. Finally, AWS is connecting capabilities and services, removing the need for you to build context, copy data, manage policies, maintain ETL pipelines, and more; giving you a more integrated and unified experience so you can focus on innovating and delivering useful applications to your customers.

Dive deeper

Read the complete blog on how AWS is transforming operations here and watch the AWS Cloud Operations Keynote to learn how these announcements were presented and demonstrated on stage.