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AWS Monitoring & Governance
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Summary
Monitoring ensures resources run as they should, while governance ensures everything is in accordance with organizational rules and policies. AWS provides CloudWatch for metrics and alarms, CloudTrail for tracking API activity, and AWS Config for resource configuration. The combination of the two gives visibility and control over the cloud environment.
Key points
- Monitoring: monitoring performance metrics, and alarms
- Governance: implementing policies, standards, and compliance
- CloudWatch = what's going on (performance), CloudTrail = who's doing what
- AWS Config verifies the resource configuration according to the rules
- Trusted Advisor gives recommendations for best practice
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