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CloudWatch: Monitoring and Alarms

AWS Cloud Practitioner to Architect: 0 to Hero

Amazon CloudWatch

CloudWatch provides data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization.

Key Features:

  • Metrics: Collected data about resources (CPU, Network).
  • Alarms: Trigger actions (like ASG scaling) when thresholds are hit.
  • Logs: Collect, monitor, and store log files from EC2 or Lambda.
  • Events (EventBridge): Schedule tasks or respond to state changes.