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Analyze CloudWatch metrics - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch (2020)
Analyze CloudWatch metrics
- In order to analyze metrics, first, we need to have some application running on a cloud environment. AWS offer sample applications that we can quickly deploy. For this demo we're going to use a sample server-less application provided by Amazon. From the AWS management console, we need to navigate to the Lambda service. We can quickly find it by searching for Lambda. Here, We need to navigate applications using the left side navigation bar. Now, let's create a new application using the Create application button. We have a lot of sample applications. The one that we are going to use is called server-less API back-end, which will create a RESTful web API that uses DynamoDB to store the data. Let's select application and move with configuration page. From the application details page we need to navigate to the next step. Let's start by giving our API a name. Let's call it metrics demo. Next, you need to choose a…
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