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