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Responding to health events

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Responding to health events

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- [Instructor] Your application might be operating at AWS for a long time, but eventually there will be some issues that humans or automation will have to respond to. Number-one tool that we're going to be using, I've said this many times already, is CloudWatch, the monitoring service. And we can define rules for the services that are running in our stack. And if those rules are breached, something happens, I can target a response. Or it might be metrics that I've defined for my services, and those metrics and the definitions for those metrics have fired alarms because somebody has to take a look at something. Or is it automation that has to look at something? We have a couple of choices. The communication at AWS inevitably leads to SNS, the Simple Notification Service. So you can decide how you want to be notified. The simplest definition of SNS is that it's push notifications. And we all have a phone, and we all get notified from time to time from our different applications that…

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