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Mastering AWS Security

You're reading from   Mastering AWS Security Create and maintain a secure cloud ecosystem

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788293723
Length 252 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Albert Anthony Albert Anthony
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Preface 1. Overview of Security in AWS 2. AWS Identity and Access Management FREE CHAPTER 3. AWS Virtual Private Cloud 4. Data Security in AWS 5. Securing Servers in AWS 6. Securing Applications in AWS 7. Monitoring in AWS 8. Logging and Auditing in AWS 9. AWS Security Best Practices

AWS CloudWatch

AWS CloudWatch is a monitoring service that collects metrics and tracks them for your resources in AWS, including your applications, in real time. Alongside, you can also collect and monitor log files with AWS CloudWatch. You can set alarms for metrics in AWS CloudWatch to continuously monitor performance, utilization, health, and other parameters of all your AWS resources and take proactive action in the event of metrics crossing thresholds set by resource owners and system administrators. This is accessible through the AWS Management Console, command-line interface, API, and SDKs.

AWS CloudWatch is a global AWS service meaning it can monitor AWS resources and services across all AWS regions. For example, you can monitor EC2 instances available in multiple AWS regions through a single dashboard.

AWS CloudWatch monitors your resources and your applications without...

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