Summary
After a long day, the team has learned how to monitor with CloudWatch. Gloria meets them around the coffee machine to verify what they’ve learned.
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Gloria: Well, everyone. What have you found out during the day?
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Alex: That every service in the cloud can be monitored… and should be monitored. And that we have so many metrics available.
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Harold: That we can define alarms based on that monitoring and take action immediately.
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Berta: That we can also have logs for all operations, and even a security audit log.
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Gloria: Fantastic, and what’s your action plan for the next steps?
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Berta: I’m building a short reference document with all the services we need, CloudWatch and CloudTrail. We’ll also build together a comprehensive list to document which metrics will be needed, how frequently to measure...