AWS News Feeds

Introduction

This dashboard provides recent AWS feeds including What’s New, Blog Posts, Videos and Security Bulletins. It allows you to filter news by AWS service, feed type and category and quickly focus on the most important topics. You can deploy dashboard in your AWS account and embed in your internal web sites. We keep our demo dashboard up to date and you are welcome to use it to stay updated with AWS related news and watch youtube videos directly from the demo dashboard.

Demo Dashboard

Get more familiar with Dashboard using the live, interactive demo dashboard following this link

Prerequisites

Deploy Data Collection Lab and make sure AWS Feeds Module is selected. Version 3.0.8 or higher required.

Deployment

CloudFormation

Note

Prerequisite: To install this dashboard using CloudFormation, you need to install Foundational Dashboards CFN with version v4.0.0 or above as described here

1. Log in to to your Data Collection Account.

2. Click the Launch Stack button below to open the pre-populated stack template in your CloudFormation.

   

3. You can change Stack name for your template if you wish.

4. Leave Parameters values as it is.

5. Review the configuration and click Create stack.

6. You will see the stack will start in CREATE_IN_PROGRESS. Oncecomplete, the stack will show CREATE_COMPLETE

7. You can check the stack output for dashboard URLs.

   Note

   Troubleshooting: If you see error "No export named cid-CidExecArn found" during stack deployment, make sure you have completed prerequisite steps.

Command Line

Alternative method to install dashboards is the cid-cmd tool.

1. Log in to to your Data Collection Account.

2. Open up a command-line interface with permissions to run API requests in your AWS account. We recommend to use CloudShell.

3. In your command-line interface run the following command to download and install the CID CLI tool:

    pip3 install --upgrade cid-cmd

4. In your command-line interface run the following command to deploy the dashboard:

    cid-cmd deploy --dashboard-id aws-feeds --data-collection-database-name optimization_data

   Please follow the instructions from the deployment wizard. More info about command line options are in the Readme or cid-cmd --help.

Update

Please note that dashboards are not updated with update of CloudFormation Stack. When new version of the dashboard template is released, you can update your dashboard by running the following command in your command-line interface:

cid-cmd update --dashboard-id aws-feeds

Authors

• Francisco Tresgallo, Senior Technical Account Manager

Contributors

• Iakov Gan, Senior Solution Architect

• Yuriy Prykhodko, Principal Technical Account Manager

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Note

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