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Key operational health tools

Key operational health tools - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Key operational health tools

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- [Instructor] As we know, when our applications are operational in production or in test mode, we need to know how those applications are operating. So, we need the logging and monitoring information. So we need CloudWatch and CloudWatch stores its results in what are called logs, i.e. CloudWatch logs. This is a centralized storage area for the systems and the applications and the services that make up your stack for your application. Specifically, the EC2 instances or containers, that logging information, can be sent to CloudWatch Logs. CloudTrail trails, remember trails hold all API calls that are going in your account, and the authentications to your account and VPCs are the networks that we are utilizing. So any data that transverses our network, i.e. the packet flow at the subnet level or the EC2 instance or the entire network, that can be stored in CloudWatch Logs, as well. Now, logs could also be directly sent to something called Kinesis. Kinesis is another AWS service that…

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