Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches its AWS Chatbot microsoft team Allow enterprise users to interact with AWS resources from within chat applications.
First launched in 2019 and generally available in 2020, AWS Chatbot is a service that enables enterprise development and IT teams to receive notifications about AWS infrastructure resources from within their productivity or chat applications. . slack.
“Using AWS Chatbot for Microsoft Teams and other chat platforms, you can receive notifications from AWS services directly in your chat channel and take action on your infrastructure by typing commands without having to switch to another tool.” said lead developer Sébastien Stormacq. An advocate for AWS wrote: blog post.
Interacting with AWS infrastructure and resources is possible by integrating your chat application with AWS services. Amazon cloudwatch and Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS).
Amazon CloudWatch is a service used to collect and visualize real-time log, metric, and event data in automated dashboards, while SNS is a service used by AWS’ distributed systems, microservices, serverless applications, and A push notification service between endpoints.
Applications included in AWS SNS are Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Lambda, and other HTTPS endpoints.
SNS integration with AWS’s EventBridge service allows chatbots to send event-related information to supported chat applications.
AWS Chatbot within Teams also allows enterprise users to run command line interface commands to run notebooks and address issues. Long commands that users tend to forget can be saved by creating aliases within his AWS chatbot channel in Teams and other applications, the company said.
A notebook is a repository that stores the executable code of a program.
To add AWS Chatbot to Microsoft Teams, companies must add the bot to the relevant team or group within the application. You can then use your team’s URL to configure your chatbot from within the AWS Management Console or his AWS Cloud Development Kit.
companies must assign Identity and access management Stormacq writes in the post that it allows channel members to do what they want in this channel and associate SNS topics to receive notifications.
At launch in 2019, AWS Chatbot was supported by Slack and AWS Chime. Other services to which AWS Chatbot can send notifications include AWS Health, AWS Budgets, AWS Security Hub, Amazon GuardDuty, CloudWatch, and CloudFormation.
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