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CloudWatch events

CloudWatch events - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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CloudWatch events

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- [Narrator] Amazon CloudWatch Events represent a stream of information about occurrences within your AWS account. It describes changes to your AWS resources. CloudWatch Events becomes aware of operational changes as they occur. It responds to these operational changes and takes corrective action by sending messages to respond to the environment, activating functions, making changes, and capturing state information. CloudWatch Events can also be used to schedule automated actions that self-trigger at a predetermined time. By combining CloudWatch Events with AWS Lambda, you can transform your monitoring approach by taking customized actions. Before using CloudWatch Events, it is important to understand three foundational concepts. The first one is events. This is generated when resources in your account change state. For example, Amazon EC2 generates an event when the state of an EC2 instance changes from running…

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