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Cloud monitoring (CloudWatch)

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From the course: AWS Essential Training for Architects (2019)

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Cloud monitoring (CloudWatch)

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- [Instructor] It would be very difficult to architect and design for failure in the cloud if there was no way to be alerted as to when a system is failing or might be approaching failure. Amazon provides services to assist in this. One such service is Cloudwatch. Cloudwatch is a resource and application monitoring and alert service that helps provide needed telemetry for cloud based systems. Cloudwatch allows for the monitoring of resources immediately and automatically without the need to install or configure any software. It allows visibility into resource utilization performance and traffic load demand patterns. It provides tools to gather and graph resource metrics, such as CPU utilization, disk I/O, and network traffic. Alarms can be set when metrics breach certain thresholds. These alarms can then trigger actions, such as sending notifications or starting processes to automatically handle the issue. By utilizing the…

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