Notes on: Linux Academy: AWS CSAA: 6) Introduction to CloudWatch, CloudTrail and SNS

Just a place to put some notes on the “AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (New!)” course from https://linuxacademy.com


CloudWatch
- Used to monitor AWS services such as EC2
- It provides centralized logging and performance metrics for AWS resources (e.g. ‘CPU Utilization’ of an EC2 instance, or network usage)
- CloudWatch Alarms can be used as triggers (i.e. to trigger an auto-scaling event)

CloudTrail
- Is an API logging service that logs all API calls made to AWS
- It does not matter if the API calls originate from the CLI, SDK, or console
- Logs can help address security concerns
- You can log and view each action performed by a user on your AWS account

Simple Notification Services (SNS)
- SNS is an AWS service that allows you to automate the sending of notifications (e.g. email and text messages) based on events that occur in your AWS account
- SNS coordinates and manages the delivery of messages to specific end points
- SNS is integrated into many AWS services, so easy to setup and use
- With CloudWatch and SNS, a full environment monitoring solution could be created that will notify administrators with alerts like: capacity issues, downtime, changes in the environment...


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