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Key managed services

Key managed services

- [Instructor] Amazon provides a number of key managed services that allow you to achieve operational excellence. Some of these services are built-in and supported by every service that you'll order. The key service that is integrated with every service at AWS is CloudWatch, the monitoring service. As you order services at AWS, the metrics for that service are enabled in CloudWatch. So having metrics available for our systems, the compute systems, the database systems, storage and the applications that are running allow us to actually monitor everything very effectively and be alerted when there are issues. We can also take advantage of CloudWatch logs. This is a repository inside of CloudWatch that holds onto specific information, and once that information is stored in the CloudWatch log, it can be analyzed and then you can be alerted if there's issues. I might want to know who's authenticating to my AWS account. I may want to know about the different APIs that are being fired in my…

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