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You're reading from Implementing AWS: Design, Build, and Manage your Infrastructure. Leverage AWS features to build highly secure, fault-tolerant, and scalable cloud environments

Product type Course

Published in Jan 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788835770

Length 690 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Design

Authors (4):

Yohan Wadia

Lucas Chan

Udita Gupta

Rowan Udell

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Title Page

About Packt

Contributors

Preface

1. What is New in AWS? FREE CHAPTER

2. Managing EC2 with Systems Manager

3. Introducing Elastic Beanstalk and Elastic File System

4. Securing Workloads Using AWS WAF

5. Governing Your Environments Using AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config

6. Access Control Using AWS IAM and AWS Organizations

7. Transforming Application Development Using the AWS Code Suite

8. Powering Analytics Using Amazon EMR and Amazon Redshift

9. Orchestrating Data using AWS Data Pipeline

10. Managing AWS Accounts

11. Using AWS Compute

12. Management Tools

13. Database Services

14. Introducing AWS Lambda

15. Writing Lambda Functions

16. Testing Lambda Functions

17. Event-Driven Model

18. Extending AWS Lambda with External Services

19. Build and Deploy Serverless Applications with AWS Lambda

20. Monitoring and Troubleshooting AWS Lambda

21. AWS Lambda - Use Cases

22. Next Steps with AWS Lambda

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Publishing custom metrics in CloudWatch

Once you get used to using CloudWatch, it is highly likely that you will want to see more than just the built-in AWS metrics.

One of the most common metrics users ask for after starting to run servers in EC2 is memory usage; the built-in metrics for EC2 instances are CPU utilization, network in/out, disk reads/writes, and status—memory is not included by default!

This recipe will show you how to feed the amount of memory inuse on your Linux instances to CloudWatch, so that you can see them alongside the other instance metrics.

Note

Knowing how utilized (or not) your instances are is a key component in choosing the right instance type to use for your workloads. Getting it wrong can cost you a lot of money!

Getting ready

You will need an EC2 instance running Linux, with the AWS CLI tool installed to perform this recipe. If you use an instance based on AWS Linux, you will have the AWS CLI tool installed for you.

The instance role or credentials you use to run...

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