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Amazon Web Services Bootcamp

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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)

Logs


CloudWatch Logs allows us to manage the logs generated from an application in a central location. This allows us to store any number of logs without storage restrictions. We can also monitor and access logs in an efficient manner using the CloudWatch Management Console. This provides an advanced search and filter capability in case we want to troubleshoot an issue. AWS resources also generate logs which can be stored in CloudWatch Logs so that we don't have distributed logs. We can define log retention days as we might not need historic logs, as per our business needs.

The CloudWatch Logs' console provides an extensive search capability where we can search logs based on filtering and patterns. It becomes easier for users to troubleshoot as log retrieval is faster based on filtering and patterns.

It also provide feature to create custom metrics based on logs. Consider a scenario where application is logging database exception like Exception: Database connection failure, and we want to...