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Amazon CloudWatch Events (Amazon EventBridge)

Amazon CloudWatch Events (Amazon EventBridge) - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Amazon CloudWatch Events (Amazon EventBridge)

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- [Lecturer] In this video, we'll talk about the key concepts in Amazon CloudWatch Events and discuss when you can use the service. Let's get right into it. Amazon CloudWatch Events is an AWS monitoring service that is mainly used if you want to monitor and describe changes in your Amazon Web Services environment and automate the response when these events happen. So how does it work? To understand more about this, let's talk about the three key concepts in CloudWatch Events, which are: events, event rules, and targets. What are events? Events indicate changes in your AWS environment. Your AWS resources can generate events when their state changes. For example, an Amazon EC2 instance can generate an event when the instance state enters a stopping state, or an Auto Scaling group can generate an event when it terminates an instance, or a snapshot was deleted for your production RDS database. You can also set up scheduled events that are executed on a periodic basis. An example of this…

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