Find Source IP Addresses Connecting to AWS Transfer Family SFTP with CloudWatch Logs Insights If your AWS Transfer Family SFTP server has CloudWatch logging turned on, every connection, login attempt, and file operation is already sitting in a log group — you just need the right query to pull the source IPs out of it. …

Amazon EC2 Application Status Checks: Setup Guide and Auto Scaling Integration On August 12, 2026, AWS shipped a status check type EC2 has never had: one that actually asks your application whether it's healthy, instead of asking the VM. The existing system and instance status checks only tell you the hypervisor is …

CloudWatch Managed Prometheus Collectors: Setup Guide for EC2 and ECS If you've been running your own OpenTelemetry Collector just to get Prometheus metrics into CloudWatch, AWS shipped the fix in late July 2026: managed Prometheus collectors. You hand CloudWatch a scrape config and a VPC connection, and it provisions, …