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Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

By : Ewere Diagboya
Book Image

Infrastructure Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch

By: Ewere Diagboya

Overview of this book

CloudWatch is Amazon’s monitoring and observability service, designed to help those in the IT industry who are interested in optimizing resource utilization, visualizing operational health, and eventually increasing infrastructure performance. This book helps IT administrators, DevOps engineers, network engineers, and solutions architects to make optimum use of this cloud service for effective infrastructure productivity. You’ll start with a brief introduction to monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch and its core functionalities. Next, you’ll get to grips with CloudWatch features and their usability. Once the book has helped you develop your foundational knowledge of CloudWatch, you’ll be able to build your practical skills in monitoring and alerting various Amazon Web Services, such as EC2, EBS, RDS, ECS, EKS, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, and ELB, with the help of real-world use cases. As you progress, you'll also learn how to use CloudWatch to detect anomalous behavior, set alarms, visualize logs and metrics, define automated actions, and rapidly troubleshoot issues. Finally, the book will take you through monitoring AWS billing and costs. By the end of this book, you'll be capable of making decisions that enhance your infrastructure performance and maintain it at its peak.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Introduction to Monitoring and Amazon CloudWatch
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Section 2: AWS Services and Amazon CloudWatch

Understanding the different types of AWS database technologies

AWS is an ecosystem of different cloud services for different purposes. The focus of this chapter is on the database services provided by AWS. The AWS database suite has a wide array of options for different database technologies, all of which were mentioned in the previous chapter. These database services cover both RBMS and NoSQL databases. The AWS services that we will discuss in this chapter are relational database services (RDSes), DynamoDB, ElastiCache, and Amazon DocumentDB.

RDS

The RDS service is an umbrella service for all popular relational database services. AWS used this code name to group different relational database technologies.

The service makes it easy to set up, secure, scale, back up, and monitor relational databases. This would have been much more difficult if a user were to set up, secure, scale, back up, and monitor on their own. AWS abstracts all the operational complexities involved with...