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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

CloudWatch

CloudWatch is a built-in native service provided by AWS for monitoring your AWS infrastructure. Almost every other service that is supported by the AWS Cloud can be monitored using CloudWatch. In fact, it is highly integrated with other services, for which you do not need any plugins. CloudWatch has two important aspects that you must understand: metrics and alarm. We could say that CloudWatch is a collection of metrics repository for the services and products that you use on the AWS Cloud.

Alarms are kind of triggers that initiate action depending on the threshold that you define on the metrics data set for the specific dimension. At a high level, here is how CloudWatch works.

As mentioned, CloudWatch is a collection of metrics repository. These metrics exist in the region in which they are created. Metric data is retained for 15 months by AWS for historical analysis...

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