Auto Scaling and Monitoring Flashcards
1
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CloudWatch
A
Free Monitoring service
Monitors, metrics, alarms, events
2
Q
Elastic Load Balancing
A
- Single or multiple Availability Zones
- EC2, Containers, IP Addreses, Lambda Functions
- Have to configure a listener
- Application Load Balancer - Layer 7
- Network Load Balancer - Layer 4
- Classic Load Balancer - both application (7) & transport (4) layers
Monitor w/ CloudWatch, Access Logs, CloudTrail Logs
3
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EC2 Auto Scaling
A
- Add (scale out) or remove (scale in) EC2 instances automatically
- manual, scheduled, dynamic, on-demand, or predictive
- Launch Configuration: AMI, Instance type, EBS, IAM role, security group
- Auto Scaling Group: Min/Max size, desired capacity
Different than AWS Auto Scaling, but can be coordinated
4
Q
CloudTrail
A
- logs of all access to AWS resources in account
- enables governance, compliance, auditing