Technical requirements
To be able to accomplish the technical tasks in the chapter, you will need to have the following technical prerequisites:
- A working AWS account (you can opt for the free tier, which will cost $0/month for 1 year)
- A Linux EC2 instance set up in the AWS account
- A basic knowledge of Linux
- A basic understanding of Amazon SNS
- An understanding of AWS IAM
The code files for this chapter can be downloaded from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Infrastructure-Monitoring-with-Amazon-CloudWatch/tree/main/Chapter04.
Check out the following link to see the Code in Action video: