SNS (Acronym)
Simple Notification Service
Define SNS
SNS allows you to automate the sending of email and text messages, based on events that happen in your AWS account.
What comprises Subcribers
HTTP, SMS, and EndPoints.
What are two primary use cases of SNS?
To notify the AWS account owner when current monthly billings reach a certain amount, and To alert a system admin of an EC2 failure.
What are the three main components of SNS?
Topics, Subscriber, and publishers.
CloudWatch
Monitor services such as EC2.
Centralized Logging
Cloudwatch Alarms / Triggers (autoscaling).
CloudTrail
API logging service. Logs all API calls made to AWS.