Management and Governance Flashcards
Easy way to set up and secure multi-account AWS environment
AWS Control Tower
Centrally govern and manage your environments across multiple AWS accounts
AWS Organizations.
Improve your planning and cost control
AWS Budgets
Model and provision all your resources via code
AWS CloudFormation
Create, organize and govern your own curated catalog of AWS products
AWS Service Catalog
Automate operations with Chef and Puppet
AWS OpsWorks
Find, test and deploy software that runs on AWS
AWS Marketplace
Observe your services via metrics and logging
Amazon CloudWatch
Record and evaluate configurations of AWS resources
AWS Config
Tracks all user activity across all accounts
AWS CloudTrail
Optimize performance and security while managing a large amount of systems
AWS Systems Manager
Analyze and debug production applications
Amazon X-ray
AWS service that allows you to create infrastructure such as an EC2 VM, or VPC or even a Cloud Front CDN - using texts in a file
CloudFormation
CloudFormation files are called
templates
The two types of CloudFormation templates syntax are
YAML
The infrastructure created in a file is called
STACK
CloudFormation supports this with templates
Nesting
Monitoring and observability service for AWS
Amazon CloudWatch
What is the purpose of Amazon CloudWatch
To see what’s going on in your AWS account by collecting metrics and data
CloudWatch uses these to give a unified view of all of your AWS resources.
Graphs
You can set these in CloudWatch
Alarms based on data in the graphs
With CloudWatch alarms you can set triggers based on these.
Alarms
CloudWatch allows you to send your log files to it so you have this for your organization,
Centralized Log Store
CloudWatch allows you to quickly and effectively respond to problems when they occur
By interactively searching and analyzing your log data
Linux SSH Port
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With these you can log anything you want to CloudWatch
Custom Metric
With CloudWatch Custom Metrics you can be alerted by any “_____” that you set.
Threshold
Allows you to automatically scale your EC2 servers, that run your applications by increasing them during demand spikes and decreasing them when you don’t need them.
Auto Scaling
Auto Scaling is for high demand and also for
Cost Savings
Auto Scaling requires a minimum size and is placed in this
Auto Scaling Group
You can use CloudWatch alarms to modify the Auto Scaling Group minumum
based on data you are tracking such as CPU or Ram
Scaling as needed to add more EC2 instances to the pool of servers being accessed by your customer till max is reached.
Scale Out
Automatically distributes connections to servers as they appear and disappear,
Load Balancer
Service that benefits from Autoscaling aside from EC2
Dynamo DB Tables
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Amazon Aurora Replicas
