announcing aws personal health dashboard - january 2017 aws online tech talks

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Ram Atur, Senior Product Manager, AWS

January 17, 2017

AWS Personal Health DashboardAdditional Transparency and Control for Your AWS Environment

What to Expect from the Session

What did we announce?Why did we build it?How does the Personal Health Dashboard work?Getting startedDemo!What else is coming?

What did we announce?

PHDAmazon

CloudWatchEvents

Announcing AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Visibility and transparencyinto your resources

Custom notifications andautomated actions

Remediation guidanceand knowledge articles

Announcing AWS Personal Health Dashboard

Announcing AWS Personal Health Dashboard

- Available today for all AWS customers https://phd.aws.amazon.com/

- Powered by AWS Health API- Notifications and actions through Amazon CloudWatch

Events- Persistent notifications through new navigation bar alerts- Hundreds of known operational, billing, security event

types live at launch

Why did we build it?

AWS Service Health Dashboard

AWS growth and adoption of AWS

- 16 Regions and 42 Availability Zones- 90+ services and growing- Cloud has become the new normal- Diverse segments and workloads

Increased transparency and visibility

- Service Health Dashboard too generic- Increased transparency into underlying infrastructure- Remediation guidance for faster time-to-resolution- AWS Health API for easy integration- Custom notifications with predictable delivery- Automated actions for auto-remediation

How does the Personal Health Dashboard work?

AWS Services and resources you use

Personal Health Dashboard

• describe-events• describe-event-details• describe-affected-entities• …

API

• Set Rules to extract events of interest

• Set Targets for rules (Amazon SNS, Amazon SQS, AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis)

Push notifications through

CloudWatch Events

Health Service

In-house or third-party monitoring and event

management systems

AWS service integrations

Amazon EC2

Amazon EBS

AmazonSES

Amazon VPC

AWS Direct Connect

Elastic Load Balancing

Amazon Elasticsearch

Service

AmazonCognito

Amazon ElastiCache

AmazonRDS

Resource and service-level insights into

health

Service-level insights into

healthAll AWS services

AWS Region coverage

- All AWS Regions except AWS GovCloud (US) and China (Beijing)

Getting started

Prerequisites

- AWS account- AWS IAM credentials for a user with the following policy

You’re all set!

Getting started with the Personal Health Dashboard

- From AWS Service Health Dashboard- From AWS website- From AWS Management Console navigation bar alert

Let’s look at the Personal Health Dashboard

Getting started with the AWS Health APIs

- APIs in all AWS SDK languages specified in https://aws.amazon.com/tools/

- Endpoint: health.us-east-1.amazonaws.com- AWS CLI access- Documentation can be found at

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/health/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html

Demo!

Common use cases

- Troubleshooting- Full visibility for tagged resources- Automated routing of relevant notifications

Common use cases

- Troubleshooting- Full visibility for tagged resources- Automated routing of relevant notifications

Common use cases

- Troubleshooting- Full visibility for tagged resources- Automated routing of relevant notifications

What else is coming?

- Invest with AWS services to better correlate impact- Additional partner integrations- Additional region coverage- Templates for automating remediation steps

- AWS Health automation code samples- Plugins for Slack, SNS, and SMS channels

What else is coming?

Resources

- Learn more about Personal Health Dashboard and Health APIs at https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/phd/

- Access your dashboard at https://phd.aws.amazon.com/ - Developer documentation can be found at

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/health/latest/APIReference/Welcome.html

- Find out about Splunk App for AWS integration with AWS Health at http://blogs.splunk.com/tag/aws-health/

Thank you!