# 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