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GorillaStack is extremely proud to have been named ARN's Startup Specialist Of The Year 2019, marking the third year in a row that GorillaStack has collected the accolade. Oliver Berger, GorillaStack CEO said "This year was particularly sweet as there was some incredible competition but we were able…

CloudTrail events are a key tool for understanding the details of whats happening inside AWS accounts, acting as a log of every single API call that has taken place inside an environment. For good governance its essential that organization’s CloudTrail logging is enabled so that CloudTrail Logs can…

AWS Shield - DDoS Protection for AWS ​Recently we've had a number of customers ask us if they can use our Real Time Events product to detect the creation of new resources and immediately add them to Shield, to which the answer is a resounding yes. ​ We've seen a couple of users try this already with…

In previous posts we’ve discussed the differences between CloudTrail and AWS Config and that has served to raise the equally pertinent question of how you compare CloudTrail to CloudWatch. What is CloudWatch? AWS CloudWatch is a suite of monitoring tools built into one AWS service. In this post, we…

For a long time, customers have wanted easier access to their past invoices and payment history. In recent maintenance work around our billing system, we decided to expose the client billing portal. Here you are able to access past invoices, manage your payment methods and manage subscriptions. To…

A lot of AWS users and DevOps engineers ask us: What’s the difference between AWS Config and AWS CloudTrail? Why should I choose one over the other? A good way to think of it is that Config will tell you what your resource state is now or what it was at a specific point in the past whereas…

Have you ever wondered how many failed attempts you had last month and which regions or IP addresses they originated from? Do you want to know who has been creating all those AWS Accounts in your Organization, or who created a specific EC2 instance that is completely untagged? (See Auto Tag and…

3 awesome improvements from our recent Auto Tag updates In 2015, we open-sourced a project that allowed users to automatically tag resources with the ARN of the user responsible for its creation. Since then, with the help of the growing community (189 stargazers, 79 forks at the time of writing), we…