Critical infrastructure use case · Amazon Web Services + Snowflake + ServiceNow
Cloud event to analytics workflow
Cloud telemetry is either analysed or acted on, rarely both. Cloud events are enriched, loaded for analysis and escalated when thresholds are crossed.
Systems involved
What each system contributes
61 actions
- EC215
- S315
- IAM21
- Lambda10
Trigger source: AWS S3, AWS SNS, AWS SQS, AWS CloudWatch, AWS CloudWatch Events
35 actions
- Data Loading & Stages8
- Tasks & Scheduling7
- Tables6
- Views6
Architecture
One governed run
How it starts: AWS CloudWatch, CloudWatch Events, S3, SNS or SQS starts the run.
Step by step
How the process runs
- 01
Event
The AWS event arrives. EC2, S3, IAM and Lambda actions add context.
- 02
Load
Snowflake data loading actions load the enriched event. Tasks update tables and views.
- 03
Threshold
Rules + Code checks thresholds and opens a ServiceNow incident or ticket if crossed.
- 04
Remediate
Any AWS remediation waits for approval.
Control
Human decision and exception path
Human decision
An operations engineer approves any remediation before it runs in AWS.
Exception path
- Duplicate events are grouped.
- Failed loads are retried.
- Remediation failures reopen the incident.
Evidence
What gets audited
- Event.
- Enrichment.
- Load result.
- Incident, approval and remediation output.
Nexus runs on premises, in private or sovereign cloud, or air-gapped. Credentials stay in the vault, roles decide who can approve, and the execution record stays inside your deployment boundary.
Sovereignty and deploymentRelated
Patterns, connectors and next steps
- AWS-ServiceNow integration
Integration pattern · Cloud events become enriched incidents and approved changes.
- Amazon Web Services connector
61 pre-built actions
- Snowflake connector
35 pre-built actions
- ServiceNow connector
55 pre-built actions
- Infrastructure orchestration
Operations runbooks with approval and evidence.
- Infrastructure alert to incident and remediation
Another critical infrastructure use case.
FAQ
Questions about this use case
- Does Nexus replace any of these systems?
- No. Each system keeps its own records. Nexus runs the process between them and records each decision.
- How does the run start?
- AWS CloudWatch, CloudWatch Events, S3, SNS or SQS starts the run.
- What if a step is not covered by a pre-built action?
- It runs through an API, protocol or database call, or as Rules + Code in Python, Bash, Go, Java, .NET, PHP, PowerShell or JavaScript/TypeScript, with the same approvals and audit.
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