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🌦 What is Cloudwatch?
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| > CloudWatch monitors your AWS resources and apps you run on AWS in real time. | |
| > Collect and track metrics | |
| > Homepage automatically displays metrics about every service in use | |
| > Allows you to create custom dashboards on metrics on your custom applications, and metrics on services. | |
| > Alarms can also be set up for metrics you care about and notifications set when thresholds are breached. | |
| Related AWS Services: | |
| > Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) - coordinates and manages the delivery of sending of messages to subscribing endpoints or clients. | |
| Use SNS with Cloudwatch to send messages when alarm threshold is reached | |
| > EC2 auto scaling: enables you to automatically launch or termiante EC2 based on pre-defined policies. | |
| > Use cloudwatch alarm with EC2 to scale EC2 instances based on demand | |
| > AWS CloudTrail - enabled you to monitor the calls made to Cloudwatch API by the account (as well as other services) - writes to S3 | |
| > IAM - securely manage access to AWS resources. |
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