CHAPTER 4
Monitor with Amazon CloudWatch
In this chapter, you will learn about
• Monitoring on AWS
• The goals of monitoring
• Monitoring infrastructure and applications using Amazon CloudWatch
When running your workloads in the cloud, it is critical to gain visibility into the security incidents occurring within your AWS accounts. A security incident could mean that a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is targeting your application. In order to mitigate such security threats, you need to establish monitoring techniques to be able to identify and later mitigate the attacks.
When we hear the term monitoring, we think about how we can observe and check the progress or quality of something over a period of time using metrics. Effective ...
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