From the course: Cloud Observability and Operations: Considerations for Security, Governance, Monitoring, and Cost Control

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AWS cloud monitoring and observability demo

AWS cloud monitoring and observability demo

- [Dave] Okay, now let's take a look at Amazon Web Services or well known as AWS. So, go into the sets of services here, and there's a ton of stuff here, so if you get a chance, you can get a trial account on AWS, and take a look at these things yourself, but we're interested in the monitoring and observability services, and on AWS, that's going to be a service they provide called CloudWatch. Go ahead and click on that. Now, a couple of things, before we did this, I went ahead and set up a database instance with DynamoDB. That's a NoSQL database, object based database, and also set up a storage bucket on S3, which is Amazon's scalable storage in the cloud. And of course also EC2, you can set up virtual servers in the cloud. Any number of things can be set up that basically resembles what you can normally do in a data center. So, let's go into CloudWatch and see what's there. That's kind of their flagship monitoring and…

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