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AWS Observability Handbook

By : Phani Kumar Lingamallu, Fabio Braga de Oliveira
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AWS Observability Handbook

By: Phani Kumar Lingamallu, Fabio Braga de Oliveira

Overview of this book

As modern application architecture grows increasingly complex, identifying potential points of failure and measuring end user satisfaction, in addition to monitoring application availability, is key. This book helps you explore AWS observability tools that provide end-to-end visibility, enabling quick identification of performance bottlenecks in distributed applications. You’ll gain a holistic view of monitoring and observability on AWS, starting from observability basics using Amazon CloudWatch and AWS X-Ray to advanced ML-powered tools such as AWS DevOps Guru. As you progress, you'll learn about AWS-managed open source services such as AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) and AWS managed Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK Stack. You’ll implement observability in EC2 instances, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless apps and grasp UX monitoring. With a fair mix of concepts and examples, this book helps you gain hands-on experience in implementing end-to-end AWS observability in your applications and navigating and troubleshooting performance issues with the help of use cases. You'll also learn best practices and guidelines, such as how observability relates to the Well-Architected Framework. By the end of this AWS book, you’ll be able to implement observability and monitoring in your apps using AWS’ native and managed open source tools in real-world scenarios.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Getting Started with Observability on AWS
6
Part 2: Automated and Machine Learning-Powered Observability on AWS
11
Part 3: Open Source Managed Services on AWS
15
Part 4: Scaled Observability and Beyond

Understanding management and governance in the 
Well-Architected Framework

The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides the best practices and guidelines to follow when you are designing your workload to run on AWS. To strengthen the framework, the management and governance lens especially focuses on applying these principles to ensure that you have the necessary processes, tools, and practices to build cloud-ready environments. The goal of the management and governance (M&G) lens focuses on four key parts:

  • Use what you know: Allows for quick implementation of scalable and secure cloud management, removing the need for re-investment by using familiar and existing tools
  • Increase speed to value: Accelerate cloud migrations by following the best practices learned from thousands of successful migrations and activations
  • Increase efficiency with interoperability: Capabilities should interoperate and inform each other to achieve greater scale than possible if they...