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Introduction to CloudWatch

Introduction to CloudWatch - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Introduction to CloudWatch

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- [Instructor] Amazon CloudWatch is an AWS service that allows you to monitor your AWS resources and applications you run on AWS. By default, CloudWatch automatically displays metrics about every AWS service you use. Additionally, it is also possible to create customized dashboards with metrics elected from your applications. With CloudWatch, you can also create alarms to watch your metrics. When an alarm is triggered, CloudWatch can be configured to send notifications, or automatically make changes to resources you're monitoring. A common use case is to monitor the CPU utilization of your EC2 instances. This data can be used to determine whether additional instances need to be launched to handle the increased load, or whether existing instances need to be terminated when the load is very less. CloudWatch can be accessed via the AWS Management Console, API, command line interface, and the AWS SDKs. Technically Amazon…

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