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AWS Tools for PowerShell 6

You're reading from   AWS Tools for PowerShell 6 Administrate, maintain, and automate your infrastructure with ease

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785884078
Length 372 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ramesh Waghmare Ramesh Waghmare
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Preface 1. PowerShell Essentials FREE CHAPTER 2. The AWS Overview 3. Installing PowerShell Core and AWS Tools 4. AWS Identity and Access Management 5. AWS Virtual Private Cloud 6. AWS Elastic Compute Cloud 7. AWS Simple Storage Service 8. Elastic Load Balancer 9. Auto Scaling 10. Laying Foundation for RDS Databases 11. DB Instance Administration and Management 12. Working with RDS Read Replicas 13. AWS Elastic Beanstalk 14. AWS CloudFormation 15. AWS CloudWatch 16. AWS Resource Auditing

Monitoring EC2 instances

To monitor EC2 instances, it is good to monitor the status checks metrics in addition to default metrics or some custom metrics. AWS does not provide an in-built way to monitor memory utilization, swap utilization, or disk utilization, but they do provide the script so that you can create the required metrics and publish them to CloudWatch. Once you have the metric data available in CloudWatch, you can create an alarm and get notified. There are two types of system checks available for EC2 instances.

  • System status checks: Things that are outside of your control are indicated by this status check. These include:
    • Loss of system power
    • Hardware issues on the physical host
    • Software issues on the physical host
    • Loss of network connectivity

In order to solve this status check, you must stop and restart the EC instance. This way, AWS will launch an EC2 instance...

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