Monitoring in AWS

A crucial process for ensuring the performance and availability of cloud-based applications and services is monitoring in AWS. AWS provides a wide range of monitoring tools and services that enable users to closely monitor work deliveries, traffic, and accesses using a variety of metrics and alerts.

The two main categories of monitoring services offered by AWS are resource monitoring services and centralized monitoring services. Elastic Load Balancer (ELB), Amazon RDS, and Amazon EC2 are examples of resource monitoring services. Centralized monitoring services include CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and AWS Config.

 

centralized monitoring services

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    CLOUDWATCH

    is one of AWS's most widely used central monitoring services. enables users to monitor and gather data on metrics, records, and events from a variety of AWS services, including EC2, ELB, RDS, and S3, among others. Users of CloudWatch may set alarms to get automatic notifications when specific thresholds of metrics are exceeded.

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    CLOUDTRAIL

    enables users to audit and track all activities on their AWS account, including resource access and use. This is very helpful for security and compliance purposes. All events are recorded by CloudTrail in an Amazon S3 bucket, which enables users to access the records and analyze them to find patterns and trends.

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    AWS Config

    helps users track and analyze changes made to the configuration of AWS resources. Users of Config may view a history of configuration changes and get alerts when unauthorized changes are made.

One of the most well-known resource monitoring services is Elastic Load Balancer (ELB). ELB is used to distribute incoming traffic among EC2 instances and to enhance the scalability and availability of cloud-based applications. Users of ELB are able to monitor traffic congestion and load in the load balancer.

Another resource monitoring service that is used to manage data bases on AWS is Amazon RDS. RDS provides performance metrics to monitor the use of CPU, memory, storage, and networks, as well as the latencies of the data base and the performance of queries.

Users can run applications on virtual machines with the help of Amazon EC2, a cloud computing service. The use of the CPU, memory, and storage space may all be monitored by users of EC2, as well as network use and data transmission rates.AWS monitoring is essential to ensuring the performance and availability of cloud-based applications and services. The users may closely monitor work loads, traffic, and accesses using a variety of metrics and alerts provided by AWS’s centralized monitoring services, such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, AWS Config, ELB, RDS, and EC2.

MOOFWD has a team of engineers and architects who specialize in monitoring AWS-related infrastructure and applications. Constant monitoring of the condition and use of our clients’ resources is one of our most popular services.