Creating a CloudWatch log group

In this recipe, we will create a CloudWatch log group that will be used in other recipes in this book.

Getting ready

We'll need a working AWS account to complete this recipe.

How to do it...

We can create a CloudWatch log group as follows:

1. Go to the CloudWatch service in the console.
2. Click on Logs from the left sidebar.
3. Click on Actions and click on Create log group:

4. Give the log group a name that describes its purpose and click on Create log group:

This will create a new log group for us.

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