AWS: Securing and Monitoring
Amazon CloudWatch at the highest level is a monitoring and observability platform that is designed to give you many different ways to gain insights of your AWS architectures and the appli...
Important: CloudWatch is the service to consider for most things related to monitoring and logging in the AWS cloud. Unless there is a very specific reason not to choose this service, this is likely the one you are going to want.
We now know what CloudWatch is at a high level. Let us start looking at how we can use the different services and features within it to better our architecture design. First thing we are going to look at is using it to collect our log files.
That is a lot of different logs to keep track of. So how can you centralize those and be more efficient with how you manage them? That is where Amazon CloudWatch Logs comes in.
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What's inside
8 sections- 1 Table of Contents
- 2 Module 1: Amazon CloudWatch
- 3 Module 2: Miscellaneous Logging and Monitoring Services
- 4 Module 3: AWS Organizations and Multi-account Architectures
- 5 Module 4: Account Security and Governance
- 6 Module 5: Infrastructure and Application Security
- 7 Module 6: Network Security
- 8 Module 7: Cost and Budgeting Services
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