Appendix: Management, Monitoring, and Governance Services - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide

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Alec Dutcher

Posted on February 28, 2022

Appendix: Management, Monitoring, and Governance Services - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide

AWS Auto Scaling

  • 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

AWS Budgets

  • 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

AWS CloudFormation

  • Infrastructure as code service
  • Model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources
  • Authoring in JSON and YAML as well as CDK

AWS CloudTrail

  • 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

Amazon CloudWatch

  • 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

AWS Config

  • 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

AWS Cost and Usage Report

  • 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)

AWS License Manager

  • 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

AWS Managed Services

  • Will operate your AWS infrastructure at any level for you

AWS Organizations

  • 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

AWS Secrets Manager

  • 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

AWS Systems Manager

  • 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

AWS Trusted Advisor

  • 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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aidutcher
Alec Dutcher

Posted on February 28, 2022

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