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Key AWS services for reliability

Key AWS services for reliability - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Key AWS services for reliability

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- [Instructor] There are key AWS services to consider when looking at designing an application and your infrastructure, and working with reliability and resiliency. And the first utility to consider is the monitoring service CloudWatch. CloudWatch primarily works with metrics and alarms. When you order a service, CloudWatch adds the metrics for that service. You define the metrics and the timeframe for monitoring that metric and the alarm that will fire when you don't like what's going on. Your systems are too slow, your systems need more resources, your systems have failed. We could also use alerts and rules. You break the rule and you can respond with a Lambda function. A Lambda function can be written in most any programming language and can do anything at AWS. Ultimately, when you're monitoring using metrics or when you're using alerts and rules, when the communication needs to happen, you'll be working with the Simple Notification Service. Now, the Simple Notification Service…

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