From the course: Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch (2020)
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Events overview - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: Monitoring AWS with CloudWatch (2020)
Events overview
- In AWS or any other cloud environment events are the glue that stitches all the different services together. Each service generates events when it's state changes and other services, listen for those events. These events are made available to us by the CloudWatch events service, which allows us to consume a near real time stream of events as changes in our services occur. We can then use the changes to trigger other services for the purpose of our applications, which we can do to the use of rules that we specify ourselves. CloudWatch events can monitor almost any action from any service such as EC2 instances being started or stopped, Lambda functions being triggered, files being added or removed from storage. Each CloudWatch event gets triggered through using rule policies. By default, we don't listen for any events for each event that we want to listen to we need to create a rule which determines on what we get…
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