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Building Automation for Fraud Detection Using OpenSearch and Terraform

March 14, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

Organizations that interface with online payments are continuously monitoring and guarding against fraudulent activity. Transactional fraud usually presents itself as discrete data points, making it challenging to identify multiple actors involved in the same group of transactions. Even a single actor operating over a period…

Proactive Insights with Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS

March 2, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Today, we are pleased to announce a new Amazon DevOps Guru for RDS capability: Proactive Insights. DevOps Guru for RDS is a fully-managed service powered by machine learning (ML), that uses the data collected by RDS Performance Insights to detect and alert customers of anomalous…

Securely validate business application resilience with AWS FIS and IAM

February 25, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

To avoid high costs of downtime, mission critical applications in the cloud need to achieve resilience against degradation of cloud provider APIs and services. In 2021, AWS launched AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS), a fully managed service to perform fault injection experiments on workloads in AWS…

Improve collaboration between teams by using AWS CDK constructs

February 23, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

There are different ways to organize teams to deliver great software products. There are companies that give the end-to-end responsibility for a product to a single team, like Amazon’s Two-Pizza teams, and there are companies where multiple teams split the responsibility between infrastructure (or platform)…

Validating OpenTelemetry Configuration Files with the otel-config-validator

February 22, 2023 By Mark Otto 0

OpenTelemetry provides open source APIs, libraries, and agents to collect distributed traces and metrics for application monitoring. The AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) provides a secure production-ready distribution of OpenTelemetry (OTel) that allows for instrumentation and collecting of metrics and traces. The ADOT collector can…

Maintaining Code Quality with Amazon CodeCatalyst Reports

February 22, 2023 By Mark Otto Off

Amazon CodeCatalyst reports contain details about tests that occur during a workflow run. You can create tests such as unit tests, integration tests, configuration tests, and functional tests. You can use a test report to help troubleshoot a problem during a workflow. Introduction In prior posts…