Overview of AWS : Management and Governance | AWS WhitePaper Summary
Tags: management, governance, aws, cloud
Published: 2021-11-08 11:52:42

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## Management and Governance

**Amazon CloudWatch** is a monitoring and management service built for developers, system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE), and IT managers.  You can use CloudWatch to set high resolution alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights to optimize your applications, and ensure they are running smoothly.

**AWS Auto Scaling** monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost. With AWS Auto Scaling, your applications always have the right resources at the right time.

**AWS Chatbot** is an interactive agent that makes it easy to monitor and interact with your AWS resources in your Slack channels and Amazon Chime chat rooms. With AWS Chatbot you can receive alerts, run commands to return diagnostic information, invoke AWS Lambda functions, and create AWS support cases.

**AWS Compute Optimizer** recommends optimal AWS resources for your workloads to reduce costs and improve performance by using machine learning to analyze historical utilization metrics.

**AWS Control Tower** automates the set-up of a baseline environment or landing zone, that is a secure, well-architected multi-account AWS environment. Control Tower automates the set-up of their landing zone and configures AWS management and security services based on established best practices in a secure, compliant, multi-account environment. 

**AWS CloudFormation** gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.

**AWS CloudTrail** is a web service that records AWS API calls for your account and delivers log files to you. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, the request parameters, and the response 

**AWS Config** is a fully managed service that provides you with an AWS resource inventory, configuration history, and configuration change notifications to enable security and governance. The Config Rules feature enables you to create rules that automatically check the configuration of AWS resources recorded by AWS Config.


**AWS Launch Wizard** offers a guided way of sizing, configuring, and deploying AWS resources for third-party applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server Always On and HANA based SAP systems, without the need to manually identify and provision individual AWS resources. To start, you input your application requirements, including performance, number of nodes, and connectivity on the service console.

**AWS Organizations** helps you centrally manage and govern your environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources. Using AWS Organizations, you can programmatically create new AWS accounts and allocate resources, group accounts to organize your workflows, apply policies to accounts or groups for governance, and simplify billing by using a single payment method for all of your accounts.

**AWS OpsWorks** is a configuration management service that provides managed instances of Chef and Puppet. Chef and Puppet are automation platforms that allow you to use code to automate the configurations of your servers. 

**AWS Proton** is the first fully managed delivery service for container and serverless applications. Platform engineering teams can use AWS Proton to connect and coordinate all the different tools needed for infrastructure provisioning, code deployments, monitoring, and updates.

**AWS Service Catalog** allows organizations to create and manage catalogs of IT services that are approved for use on AWS. These IT services can include everything from virtual machine images, servers, software, and databases to complete multi-tier application architectures. 

**AWS Systems Manager** gives you visibility and control of your infrastructure on AWS. Systems Manager provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and allows you to automate operational tasks across your AWS resources. 

**AWS Systems Manager** contains the following tools:
Resource groups: Lets you create a logical group of resources associated with a particular workload such as different layers of an application stack, or production versus development environments.
Insights Dashboard: Displays operational data that the AWS Systems Manager automatically aggregates for each resource group. 
1. Run Command: Provides a simple way of automating common administrative tasks like remotely executing shell scripts or PowerShell commands, installing software updates, or making changes to the configuration of OS, software, EC2 and instances and servers in your on-premises data center.

2. State Manager: Helps you define and maintain consistent OS configurations such as firewall settings and anti-malware definitions to comply with your policies.

3. Inventory: Helps you collect and query configuration and inventory information about your instances and the software installed on them.
Maintenance Window: Lets you define a recurring window of time to run administrative and maintenance tasks across your instances. 

4. Patch Manager: Helps you select and deploy operating system and software patches automatically across large groups of instances. 

5. Automation: Simplifies common maintenance and deployment tasks, such as updating Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

6. Parameter Store: Provides an encrypted location to store important administrative information such as passwords and database strings. 

7. Distributor: Helps you securely distribute and install software packages, such as software agents. Systems Manager Distributor allows you to centrally store and systematically distribute software packages while you maintain control over versioning. 

8. Session Manager: Provides a browser-based interactive shell and CLI for managing Windows and Linux EC2 instances, without the need to open inbound ports, manage SSH keys, or use bastion hosts. 

**AWS Trusted Advisor** is an online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance, and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment. 

**AWS Personal Health Dashboard** provides alerts and remediation guidance when AWS is experiencing events that might affect you. While the Service Health Dashboard displays the general status of AWS services, Personal Health Dashboard gives you a personalized view into the performance and availability of the AWS services underlying your AWS resources. 

**AWS Managed Services** provides ongoing management of your AWS infrastructure so you can focus on your applications.

**The AWS Console Mobile Application** lets customers view and manages a select set of resources to support incident response while on the go. Customers can view ongoing issues and follow through to the relevant CloudWatch alarm screen for a detailed view with graphs and configuration options. In addition, customers can check on the status of specific AWS services, view detailed resource screens, and perform select actions.

**AWS License Manager** makes it easier to manage licenses in AWS and on-premises servers from software vendors such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and IBM. Administrators gain control and visibility of all their licenses with the AWS License Manager dashboard and reduce the risk of non-compliance, misreporting, and additional costs due to licensing overages.

**The AWS Well-Architected Tool** helps you review the state of your workloads and compares them to the latest AWS architectural best practices.