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You're reading from AWS SysOps Cookbook Practical recipes to build, automate, and manage your AWS-based cloud environments

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2019

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781838550189

Length 490 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

System Administration

Authors (3):

Eric Z. Beard

Rowan Udell

Lucas Chan

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. AWS Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Account Setup and Management

3. AWS Storage and Content Delivery

4. AWS Compute

5. Monitoring the Infrastructure

6. Managing AWS Databases

7. AWS Networking Essentials

8. AWS Account Security and Identity

9. Managing Costs

10. Advanced AWS CloudFormation

11. AWS Well-Architected Framework

12. Working with Business Applications

13. AWS Partner Solutions

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AWS CloudWatch

The real value of collecting metrics is the ability to spot trends and relationships (often unknown or unexpected) between disparate systems. With this kind of visibility, you are able to identify and troubleshoot issues before they become an incident.

In addition to providing a way to aggregate and view metrics from your systems, the
CloudWatch service also makes it easy to create monitoring dashboards, allowing you to quickly and clearly view the most important metrics.

Getting ready

You will need to have some metrics already present in CloudWatch in order to create a dashboard. If you have been using AWS services (for example EC2, RDS, DDB, and so on), then you should have plenty—almost all of the...

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Authors (3)

Eric Z. Beard

Eric Z. Beard, a former United States Marine, has nearly two decades of experience in technology, leading diverse DevOps and solutions architecture teams. Eric is currently a manager at Amazon Web Services in Seattle, Washington, and holds nine AWS certifications.

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Udell

Rowan Udell has been working in development and operations for 15 years. His travels have seen him work in start-ups and enterprises in the finance, education, and web industries in both Australia and Canada. He currently works as a Technical Director at Versent, an AWS Premier Consulting Partner, working with teams building cloud-native products on AWS. He specializes in serverless applications and architectures on AWS, and contributes actively in the AWS and serverless communities.

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Chan

Lucas Chan has been working in tech since 1995 in a variety of development, systems admin, and DevOps roles. He is currently a senior consultant and engineer at Versent and was a technical director at Stax. He's been running production workloads on AWS for over 10 years. He's also a member of the APAC AWS warriors program and holds all five of the available AWS certifications.

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