Monitoring your AWS environment

Question 1

Use CloudWatch for

Answer 1

shutting down inactive instances

• monitoring changes in you AWS environment with Cloud Trail integration.
• monitor instances resources and create alarms based off of usage and availability.

Question 2

Use CloudTrail for

Answer 2

• security and compliance
• MOnitoring all actions taken against the AWS account
• Monitoring of changes to IAM accounts(with cloudwatch/SNS integration)
• Viewing what API keys/Users performed any given API action against an environment
• fulfiling auditing requirements inside of organizations.

Question 3

Use AWS config for

Answer 3

receiving detailed configuration inforamation about an AWS environment

• taking a point in time “snapshot” of all supported AWS resources o determine the state of your environment.
• viewing historical configurations within your environment by viewing the snapshots.
• receiving notifications whenever resources are created, modified or deleted.
• viewing relationships between resources.