CloudWatch Events can be used to track changes made to AWS resources. It may be useful for administrator to maintain a track history for the AWS resource scaling up or scaling down. Using this we can make sure that AWS resources are not being over used which may incur more charges or AWS resources scaled down which may impact application performance. So it is important to capture the CloudWatch Events and take appropriate action. We can create rules for Events, so that we can invoke the necessary actions or send notifications to concerned persons. Using CloudWatch Events, users can keep an eye on infrastructure changes so that they can compare between the old and new infrastructure and take the necessary action. This saves users time, as before we needed to write scripts which regularly checked the infrastructure, collected data, and stored it at some location. Now the entire process can be automated by defining rules and providing targets for the specific rules. The following are...
Amazon Web Services Bootcamp
Amazon Web Services Bootcamp
Overview of this book
AWS is at the forefront of Cloud Computing today. Businesses are adopting AWS Cloud because of its reliability, versatility, and flexible design.
The main focus of this book is teaching you how to build and manage highly reliable and scalable applications and services on AWS. It will provide you with all the necessary skills to design, deploy, and manage your applications and services on the AWS cloud platform.
We’ll start by exploring Amazon S3, EC2, and so on to get you well-versed with core Amazon services. Moving on, we’ll teach you how to design and deploy highly scalable and optimized workloads. You’ll also discover easy-to-follow, hands-on steps, tips, and recommendations throughout the book and get to know essential security and troubleshooting concepts.
By the end of the book, you’ll be able to create a highly secure, fault tolerant, and scalable environment for your applications to run on.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Free Chapter
Getting Started with AWS
Building Servers Using EC2
Storing Files on S3
Managing RDS
Implementing DynamoDB – NoSQL Database
Implementing Caching Using ElastiCache
Triggering Notifications
All About CloudWatch
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index
Customer Reviews