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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By : Marko Sluga
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator ??? Associate Guide

By: Marko Sluga

Overview of this book

AWS certifications are becoming one of the must have certifications for any IT professional working on an AWS Cloud platform. This book will act as your one stop preparation guide to validate your technical expertise in deployment, management, and operations on the AWS platform. Along with exam specific content this book will also deep dive into real world scenarios and hands-on instructions. This book will revolve around concepts like teaching you to deploy, manage, and operate scalable, highly available, and fault tolerant systems on AWS. You will also learn to migrate an existing on-premises application to AWS. You get hands-on experience in selecting the appropriate AWS service based on compute, data, or security requirements. This book will also get you well versed with estimating AWS usage costs and identifying operational cost control mechanisms. By the end of this book, you will be all prepared to implement and manage resources efficiently on the AWS cloud along with confidently passing the AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate exam.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)

Monitoring Elastic Beanstalk environments

We will discuss Elastic Beanstalk in more detail in the next chapter, but essentially our Elastic Beanstalk environments are self-contained applications that provide all the services required to run our code. The environments themselves are created in a transparent manner and should be monitored according to the features that are created within the environment.

For example, an Elastic Beanstalk application could be composed of EC2 instances, an ELB, a RDS database, an SQS queue, and so on. All of these components need to be monitored in the same way as if we created those services ourselves. We do have an additional set of metrics that we can follow in the CloudWatch overview section when selecting Elastic Beanstalk. Here, we can see the environment health status and the HTTP response codes ordered by class (200, 300, 400, and 500 errors...