GorillaStack Blog

We have been operating at the resource level for some time, managing elasticity of EC2 and RDS instances, AutoScaling groups and the lifecycle of EBS storage and images. However, two new actions we released today is changing that, taking us into new territory of offering automation capabilities…

Adding GorillaStack to new AWS accounts was always the greatest sticking point with our customers. We decided to overhaul our onboarding interface and backend mechanism, for ease of use and understanding. We now create a CloudFormation stack containing the role and policy required for secure cross…

We love hearing about interesting new customer use cases! A few customers wanted to create a series of run-books in GorillaStack and use the service as an interface from which to kick off preconfigured automation rules. However we couldn’t support this because all of our rules required a trigger and…

Not all service schedulers are created equal – we’ve been sourcing feedback from some of our heaviest users and asking them specifically what they like most about GorillaStack compared to our competitors. Some of the responses go beyond the amount of money we help them to save, the governance…

CloudTrail is an amazing source of data, rich with API call history, allowing us to monitor who is attempting to do what within our AWS accounts. However, it isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. As every call is logged (including assumption of role, switching of roles and even creation of a log stream…

The best ideas always come from users. We originally built custom boolean expressions into our Tag Groups as a customer request and now we're excited to announce the latest enhancement. Multiple Tag Groups per Rule Action We now support the selection of multiple tag groups on an action! Now, when…

We have listened to customer feedback and our Dashboard has been revamped as a highly useful Event Log. Good news is that it is available on GorillaStack as of right now! Some of the useful changes include: One click filtering of Audit, Rule Execution & Attention events for quick inspection of what…

We love Lambda and we know you do too! So we're pleased to announce today that we support the invocation of AWS Lambda functions as an action in our rules engine. Now, using any of our trigger types, you can invoke any Lambda function across your accounts and regions, with a custom JSON payload and…