Module 7 - Monitoring and Analytics

Question 1

What is a web service that enables you to monitor and manage various metrics and configure alarm actions based on data from those metrics?

Answer 1

Amazon Cloudwatch

Question 2

With CloudWatch, you can create _____ that automatically perform actions if the value of your metric has gone above or below a predefined threshold.

Answer 2

Alarms

Question 3

______ records API calls for your account. The recorded information includes the identity of the API caller, the time of the API call, the source IP address of the API caller, and more. You can think of _______ as a “trail” of breadcrumbs (or a log of actions) that someone has left behind them.

Answer 3

AWS CloudTrail

Question 4

Within CloudTrail, you can also enable ______ This optional feature allows CloudTrail to automatically detect unusual API activities in your AWS account.

Answer 4

CloudTrail Insights

Question 5

What is AWS Trusted Advisor?

Answer 5

It is a web service that inspects your AWS environment and provides real-time recommendations in accordance with AWS best practices.

Question 6

Trusted Advisor compares its findings to AWS best practices in five categories: _____, _____, _____, ____, _____

Answer 6

cost optimization, performance, security, fault tolerance, and service limits.