Category: Analytics

Reviewing partner contracts by hand is slow and repetitive, so teams want an AI agent to do the first pass. In the example used throughout this post, a company called Example Corp reviews incoming partner agreements against its own standard operating procedures. A partner uploads an agreement, the agent checks it against those procedures, and […]

In this post, we walk you through how to identify and analyze the newly separated intra-region VPC Peering charges using Amazon Web Services (AWS) Billing and Cost Management console tools including AWS Cost Explorer, AWS Data Exports (Standard data export and Legacy AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) export) and AWS Bills, showing you the […]

Note: This post references the use of multi-tenant or shared distributions, which has recently released more formalized support through SaaS Manager for CloudFront. Check out the latest blog to see how multiple domain delivery can leverage SaaS Manager. Amazon CloudFront is the AWS native Content Delivery Network (CDN) that reduces latency, improves availability, and secures […]

Introduction AWS services generate rich log and metric data, enabling you to create comprehensive dashboards that reveal valuable insights, including detailed visibility into Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) connectivity patterns. This post demonstrates how Amazon QuickSight and Amazon Q in QuickSight enable data visualization from any source. We focus on visualizing connectivity patterns in VPCs to showcase the […]

Web application security is an ongoing process. AWS WAF enables real-time monitoring and blocking of potentially harmful web requests. Bot Control and Fraud Control use machine learning (ML) to detect and prevent sophisticated threats. Bot traffic can make up anywhere from 30% to 50% or even more of total web traffic. After enabling AWS WAF, […]

AWS Transit Gateway is a network transit hub that enables you to connect thousands of Amazon Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs) and your on-premises networks using a single gateway. This simplifies your network connection and puts an end to complex peering relationships. AWS Transit Gateway Flow Logs enables you to export detailed telemetry information, such as source/destination […]

This post is a continuation of Tracking Pixel driven web analytics with AWS Edge Services. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the usage of pixel tracking to provide insights into user behavior. A tracking pixel consists of using a 1×1 transparent pixel with a HTML element to leverage the loading call to send […]

Being able to analyze web traffic and user behavior is essential to understanding the impacts of new features, content updates, or current product iterations for websites and applications. Tracking website activity can provide insight into who visits your website, where they come from, and what content they view. A web beacon is a common technique […]

In part 1 of this blog-post series, we walked you through steps to configure Amazon OpenSearch Service to receive logs from AWS Network Firewall using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. In this part 2, we cover steps to generate test alerts, validating them and configure dashboards in Amazon OpenSearch Service to visualize and analyze log data. […]

This two-part blog series demonstrates how to build network analytics and visualizations using data available through AWS Network Firewall logs. Network Firewall supports Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose as one of the logging destinations, and these logs can be streamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service as a delivery destination. Network Firewall logs contain several data points, such as source […]