Appendix: Management, Monitoring, and Governance Services - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide
Alec Dutcher
Posted on February 28, 2022
- Monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost
- Build scaling plans for resources including Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora Replicas
- Makes recommendations that allow you to optimize performance, costs, or balance between them
- No additional fee, only pay for resources used
- Set custom budgets to track your cost and usage
- Be alerted by email or SNS notification when actual/forecasted cost/usage exceed budget threshold, or when actual RI and Savings Plans' utilization or coverage drops below desired threshold
- Configure specific actions to respond to cost and usage status
- First two action-enabled budgets are free, afterward $0.10/day per budget
- Infrastructure as code service
- Model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources
- Authoring in JSON and YAML as well as CDK
- Monitors and records account activity
- Audit activity, identify security incidents, troubleshoot operational issues
- Capture and store activity in CloudTrail Lake or using CloudTrail Trails to store in S3
- Monitoring and observability service
- Monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization
- Detect anomalous behavior in your environments, set alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights
- Assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources
- Continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations
- Most comprehensive set of cost and usage data
- Publish AWS billing reports to S3 bucket
- Receive reports that break down your costs by the hour, day, or month, by product or product resource, or by tags
Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events)
- Serverless event bus
- Create customized licensing rules that mirror the terms of licensing agreements
- Use these rules to help prevent licensing violations
- Prevent a licensing breach by stopping the instance from launching or by notifying administrators about the infringement
- Will operate your AWS infrastructure at any level for you
- Centrally manage and govern AWS environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources
- Programmatically create new AWS accounts and allocate resources, - Group accounts to organize your workflows
- Apply policies to accounts or groups for governance
- Simplify billing by using a single payment method for all of your accounts
- Rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle
- Users and applications retrieve secrets with a call to Secrets Manager APIs
- Secure end-to-end management solution for hybrid cloud environments
- Operations management, application management, change management, and node management
AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Secure, hierarchical storage for configuration data management and secrets management
- Store data such as passwords, database strings, Amazon Machine Image (AMI) IDs, and license codes as parameter values in plain text or encrypted
- Provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices
- AWS Basic Support and AWS Developer Support customers can access core security checks and all checks for service quotas
- AWS Business Support and AWS Enterprise Support customers can access all checks, including cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service quotas
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Alec Dutcher
Posted on February 28, 2022
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