What I have learned about CloudWatch on AWS

Amazon-Web-Services · 22 Mar 2022

This is the fifth post of content for preparing yourself for becoming an AWS Solutions Architect Associate.

In this post, we are going to focus on CloudWatch on AWS.

As I have done previously let’s look at the similarities and differences to the closest equivalent in Azure. CloudWatch is the monitoring service for performance on AWS and the equivalent to Azure Monitor.

Monitors the performance within AWS for:

Compute
- EC2 instances
- Autoscaling groups
- Elastic load balancers
- Route 53 health checks
Storage and Content delivery
- EBS volumes
- Storage Gateway
- CloudFront

CloudWatch with EC2 can monitor at a host level (every 5 minutes by default):

CPU
Network
Disk
Status check

CloudTrail increases the availability by recording console actions and API calls. This is activity monitoring and NOT performance. This is for auditing who is accessing resources.

I hope that you are enjoying this information so far. It is helping me to continue to comprehend these services as I prepare for the exam myself. Thank you very much.

Reference links:

What I’ve Learned about IAM on AWS

https://captainhyperscaler.github.io/amazon-web-services/2022/03/20/aws-iam

What I’ve Learned about S3 on AWS

https://captainhyperscaler.github.io/amazon-web-services/2022/03/20/aws-s3

What I’ve Learned about EC2 on AWS

https://captainhyperscaler.github.io/amazon-web-services/2022/03/22/aws-ec2

What I’ve Learned about EBS on AWS

https://captainhyperscaler.github.io/amazon-web-services/2022/03/22/aws-ebs

What I’ve Learned about Cloudwatch on AWS

https://captainhyperscaler.github.io/amazon-web-services/2022/03/22/aws-cloudwatch

What I’ve Learned about RDS on AWS