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AWS Administration ??? The  Definitive Guide

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Product type Book
Published in Feb 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782173755
Pages 326 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (17) Chapters close

AWS Administration – The Definitive Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Introducing Amazon Web Services 2. Security and Access Management 3. Images and Instances 4. Security, Storage, Networking, and Lots More! 5. Building Your Own Private Clouds Using Amazon VPC 6. Monitoring Your AWS Infrastructure 7. Manage Your Applications with Auto Scaling and Elastic Load Balancing 8. Database-as-a-Service Using Amazon RDS 9. Working with Simple Storage Service 10. Extended AWS Services for Your Applications Index

Getting started with CloudWatch


In this section, we are going to carry out two tasks. First up, we will check out some simple steps, using which you will be able to create your very first billing alarm, followed by creating a few simple alarms for an instance using both the AWS Management Console as well as the AWS CLI. So, without further ado let's get started on some CloudWatch!

Monitoring your account's estimate charges using CloudWatch

CloudWatch provides a really simple alarm setup using which you as an end user can monitor your account's estimated costs and usage. To work with this, you need to log in to your AWS account as the root user and not as an IAM user, even if you are the administrator. I know I'm not following my own rules here by using the root user, but hey, that's what AWS says! Log in to your AWS account using your root credentials. Once logged in, select the Billing & Cost Management option highlighted under your account's name, as shown in the following screenshot...

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