What is CloudWatch?
It’s a useful tool to create Billing Alarms that prevent users from creating over the head accounts
How to configure Cloudwatch to prevent paying to much?
By setting up batched time frame to be notified and the maximum amount of money you’re looking to pay
How Cloudwatch notifies users about costs of usage?
Via SNS which emails you with notifications
What compute resources can CloudWatch monitor?
EC2 instances
Auto Scaling Groups
Elastic Load Balancers
Route53 Health Checks
What can CloudWatch monitor in Storage & Content Delivery (CDN)?
EBS Volumes
Storage Gateways
CloudFront
What does Host level metrics consits of?
CPU
Network
Disk
Status Check