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You may be monitoring your AWS workloads. But are you monitoring the changes being made to AWS itself? When we review AWS environments, we often see good operational monitoring in place: EC2 CPU utilisation RDS storage and performance ECS task health Lambda errors Application availability That kind of monitoring is important. But it only tells part of the story. One area that is often overlooked is monitoring changes to the AWS control plane — the configuration and management

Here's a question every digital platform should be able to answer: "If our AWS production environment became unavailable today, how quickly could we recover?" Many cloud-native businesses assume that because they run entirely on AWS, disaster recovery is largely taken care of. It's a surprisingly common misconception. Having backups is important. But having backups is not a disaster recovery strategy. If a critical application became unavailable today, could your team answer

One of the most common things we see when reviewing AWS environments isn't a vulnerable server, an exposed database or a misconfigured firewall. It's Identity and Access Management (IAM). The permissions, users and roles that determine who can access your AWS environment and what they're allowed to do. Most AWS environments we review have at least one of these issues: ❌ Root account without MFA enabled ❌ IAM roles with unrestricted Administrator Access ❌ Shared credentials be