Lab: Intro to Management Services

Management tools

CloudFormation

Use a text file to define and deploy your infrastructure on AWS.

AWS Service Catalog

Allow enterprises to look at what type of resources can be deployed to be governance compliant. What is allowed to be deployed on AWS cloud

CloudWatch

Monitoring service for cloud resources and applicaiton that are deployed on AWS Cloud. Used for triggering scaling operations, or provide insights into your deployed resources.

For free tier: You're fine as long as you don't define too much alarms, you won't have to pay anything at all which is very nice. Always free, no expiration!

AWS systems managers

Let you view operational data from multiple AWS services and automate task across AWS services.

Help detect and resolve operational problems.

Trusted advisor

Analysis your AWS resources that you have deployed and advise you on how to achieve higher security, best performance, and optimized cost for those resources.

CloudTrail

Monitors and logs AWS account activity. Management console, SDK, CLI are all tracked.

AWS Config

Allow you to assess, audit, and evaluate the configuration of your AWS resources. Simplifies security analysis and change management control, and operational troubleshooting

OpsWorks

Automate deployment of AWS resources