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Blog Posts3

Chaos Engineering on AWS: Observability and Stop Conditions with CloudWatch and FIS

Add CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, and FIS stop conditions to your chaos engineering lab. See how guardrails automatically abort experiments when things go wrong.

22 min read · 2026-06-11

Amazon CloudWatch Deep Dive: Monitoring, Logging, and Observability on AWS

Complete guide to Amazon CloudWatch covering metrics, alarms, Logs Insights, CloudWatch Agent, dashboards, anomaly detection, Synthetics, Container Insights, X-Ray tracing, EMF, and cost optimization.

14 min read · 2025-04-28

Inside the Engine: What the Logs Reveal

Part 10 of 16 in the AWS Security Agent: From Zero to Hero series. A data-driven walk through the CloudWatch logs of two real penetration tests: the 14 tools the agent uses, the thousands of reasoning blocks and tool calls, and how the observed behavior maps onto AWS's published multi-agent stages.

12 min read · 2026-07-29

Weekly News1

Week 22 - May 25-31, 2026

AWS Network Firewall can now allow or block traffic by website category, including generative-AI services, with the matches visible in CloudWatch Logs Insights. AWS also published Well-Architected guidance for defending the software supply chain against attacks like Shai-Hulud, and a path to move centralized firewall inspection onto Transit Gateway attachments.

2026-05-25 - 2026-05-31

Best Practices1

AWS CloudWatch Security Best Practices

Comprehensive guide to securing AWS CloudWatch for security monitoring and observability. Covers KMS encryption for log groups, CIS benchmark metric filters, CloudWatch Alarms, Anomaly Detection, cross-account observability, Container Insights, and real-time log processing.

15 min read

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