Cisco, AWS further integrate cloud management capabilities

In addition AWS Internet Monitor lets customers quickly spot performance issues, pinpoint locations and providers that are affected, and then helps customers take action to improve end users’ network experience, AWS stated. “Customers can see a global view of traffic patterns and health events, and easily drill down into information about events at different geographic granularities. If an issue is caused by the AWS network, customers receive an AWS Health Dashboard notification that tells them the steps that AWS is taking to mitigate the problem,” the company stated.

“The integration of Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor insights into the ThousandEyes platform will enable us to provide AWS customers with precise suggestions on where to place their workloads to achieve optimal (lowest) time-to-first-byte performance,” Singh wrote. 

It will also let customers simplify their ThousandEyes setup by monitoring coverage based on user traffic profiles  then suggesting optimal vantage points (based on geographic and/or network proximity) to locate resources, Singh stated.

Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor integration will be available in Cisco ThousandEyes in spring 2024. The ThousandEyes platform is available in the AWS Marketplace.

On the observability side, the vendors said they brought together a variety of new AWS cloud business metrics for the Cisco Cloud Observability module to help customers better prioritize technology and business  issues based on their potential  impact on revenue, order conversions or other important customer concerns.

The Cloud Observability application is part of Cisco’s Full-Stack Observably Platform, which is designed to collect and correlate data from application, networking, infrastructure, security, and cloud domains to provide a clear view of what’s going on across the enterprise and make it easier for enterprises to spot anomalies, preempt and address performance problems, and improve threat mitigation.