Management and Governance Flashcards
Easy way to set up and secure multi-account AWS environment
AWS Control Tower
Centrally govern and manage your environments across multiple AWS accounts
AWS Organizations.
Improve your planning and cost control
AWS Budgets
Model and provision all your resources via code
AWS CloudFormation
Create, organize and govern your own curated catalog of AWS products
AWS Service Catalog
Automate operations with Chef and Puppet
AWS OpsWorks
Find, test and deploy software that runs on AWS
AWS Marketplace
Observe your services via metrics and logging
Amazon CloudWatch
Record and evaluate configurations of AWS resources
AWS Config
Tracks all user activity across all accounts
AWS CloudTrail
Optimize performance and security while managing a large amount of systems
AWS Systems Manager
Analyze and debug production applications
Amazon X-ray
AWS service that allows you to create infrastructure such as an EC2 VM, or VPC or even a Cloud Front CDN - using texts in a file
CloudFormation
CloudFormation files are called
templates
The two types of CloudFormation templates syntax are
YAML
The infrastructure created in a file is called
STACK
CloudFormation supports this with templates
Nesting
Monitoring and observability service for AWS
Amazon CloudWatch
What is the purpose of Amazon CloudWatch
To see what’s going on in your AWS account by collecting metrics and data
CloudWatch uses these to give a unified view of all of your AWS resources.
Graphs
You can set these in CloudWatch
Alarms based on data in the graphs
With CloudWatch alarms you can set triggers based on these.
Alarms
CloudWatch allows you to send your log files to it so you have this for your organization,
Centralized Log Store
CloudWatch allows you to quickly and effectively respond to problems when they occur
By interactively searching and analyzing your log data