Chapter 13: Management and Governance on AWS

Managing and monitoring your resources on AWS is a crucial part of ensuring that your applications perform as expected, are highly available and secure, and run in the most cost-efficient manner. You want to be able to monitor how your applications are being consumed, identify any technical issues that may affect performance and availability, and ensure that only authorized entities are granted access. Furthermore, you need to be able to audit your environment, with access to information such as access patterns, and identify any anomalies that may indicate potential performance or security issues. You also want to be able to enforce change management processes to ensure that any modifications or changes made to your AWS resources are accounted for and approved.

Finally, as part of your day-to-day administrative tasks in maintaining your workloads, you want to be able to effectively manage your resources, such as patching, performing...