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Monitor with CloudWatch - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS Automation and Optimization
Monitor with CloudWatch
- [Instructor] Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring service provided by AWS that can optimize your workloads and resources. While primarily known for its monitoring capabilities, CloudWatch plays a crucial role in optimization by providing insights that enable better resource utilization, cost management, and performance tuning. Here are key features of CloudWatch that can help with optimization. CloudWatch collects and analyzes metrics from various AWS sources and custom applications, allowing you to monitor resource utilization, application performance, and operational help. Imagine you have a web application running on EC2 instances of size t3.medium. CloudWatch tracks their CPU utilization, memory usage, and network throughput. By analyzing these metrics, you discover that the instances used less than 30% of their CPU capacity. This insight allows you to downsize the instances, optimizing costs without affecting performance. CloudWatch has a feature called CloudWatch Logs that…
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