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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

Cloud transformation journey

The cloud transformation journey discusses the agile approach for organizations on realizing the business value of the cloud. If you look at the outer circle in the CAF, there are four different phases, namely Envision, Align, Launch, and Scale.

Let’s dive deeper into them and look at the focus of the phases in the cloud transformation journey:

  • Envision: The envision phase focuses on how customers identify and prioritize transformation opportunities in line with their strategic objectives. So it is always working backward from customer strategic business objectives to identify transformation opportunities in an organization. As a part of this exercise, you would look into identifying key stakeholders for driving business decisions, which is one of the critical aspects of the envision phase.
  • Align: In the align phase, the focus is on identifying the broader set of stakeholders across the organization and also focus on cross-organizational...