Summary
This chapter started with an understanding of the meaning of Amazon CloudWatch Events and the different components that make up CloudWatch Events. We also learned that it is being deprecated and will be replaced with Amazon EventBridge. We learned that EventBridge is a serverless service for receiving events and triggering other corresponding services just the way CloudWatch Events does, but EventBridge supports triggers from SaaS applications, making it more extensive than CloudWatch Events. We then moved on to configure a schedule expression that stops and starts and an EC2 instance at a particular time of the day. Then, we moved on to introduce Amazon CloudWatch alarms, discussed the importance of alarms, and moved ahead to configure an alarm that sends an email when our AWS estimated bill reaches $15.
We have been able to not only learn the guiding principles behind CloudWatch Events, Amazon EventBridge, and Amazon CloudWatch alarms but also formulate a real-life practical...