You're reading from AWS for System Administrators Build, automate, and manage your infrastructure on the most popular cloud platform – AWS

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800201538

Length 388 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Prashant Lakhera

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: AWS Services and Tools

2. Chapter 1: Setting Up the AWS Environment FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Protecting Your AWS Account Using IAM

4. Section 2: Building the Infrastructure

5. Chapter 3: Creating a Data Center in the Cloud Using VPC

6. Chapter 4: Scalable Compute Capacity in the Cloud via EC2

7. Section 3: Adding Scalability and Elasticity to the Infrastructure

8. Chapter 5: Increasing an Application's Fault Tolerance with Elastic Load Balancing

9. Chapter 6: Increasing Application Performance Using AWS Auto Scaling

10. Chapter 7: Creating a Relational Database in the Cloud using AWS Relational Database Service (RDS)

11. Section 4: The Monitoring, Metrics, and Backup Layers

12. Chapter 8: Monitoring AWS Services Using CloudWatch and SNS

13. Chapter 9: Centralizing Logs for Analysis

14. Chapter 10: Centralizing Cloud Backup Solution

15. Chapter 11: AWS Disaster Recovery Solutions

16. Chapter 12: AWS Tips and Tricks

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Introduction to CloudWatch Events

AWS CloudWatch Events are similar to alarms but instead of configuring alarms or thresholds, they match event patterns. These event patterns can relate to EC2 state change, a file upload to an S3 bucket, Key Management Service (KMS) key deletion, and so on. You can create CloudWatch Events rules that match the event pattern and take actions in response to those patterns. The following events are some of those supported by CloudWatch Events:

EC2 state change
Application programming interface (API) call reported by CloudTrail

CloudWatch Events provide a near-real-time stream of system events, and to configure it, we need to follow this series of steps:

Go back to the CloudWatch console at https://us-west-2.console.aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/home, then click on Rules and Create rule, as illustrated in the following screenshot:
Figure 8.16 – AWS CloudWatch Events
CloudWatch Events rules are used to trigger events emitted...