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Monitoring and analytics

AWS CloudWatch

  • lets you montior you aws infra and applications

  • allows to create custom metrics

  • CloudWatch Alarm: rule to match threshold of metrics which gets generated into an alert or take action such as stop ec2 instance

  • its integrated with SNS

  • It has buildint dashboards

AWS CloudTrail

  • Records API calls for your account. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, and more. You can think of CloudTrail as a “trail” of breadcrumbs (or a log of actions) that someone has left behind them.

  • Recall that you can use API calls to provision, manage, and configure your AWS resources. With CloudTrail, you can view a complete history of user activity and API calls for your applications and resources.

AWS Trusted Advisor

  • Evaluates and reports against your services using 5 pillors:

    • Cost Optimization

    • Performance

    • Security

    • Fault tolerance

    • Service limits

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