Percentiles Percentiles are available for some AWS services. They enable you to understand where in a particular percentile of the service a specific dimension lies. This information allows you to find outliers and use the data in long-term statistical analysis. CloudWatch Alarms As we already mentioned, the CloudWatch service enables you to trigger alerts when […]

Six Benefits of the AWS Cloud This section covers the following official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam domains: Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation Domain 2: Reliability and Business Continuity Domain 3: Deployment, Provisioning, and Automation Domain 6: Cost and Performance Optimization CramSaver If you can correctly answer these questions before going […]

Namespaces and Dimensions All data in CloudWatch is recorded with a specific namespace format. Default metrics are formatted as Service:Metric. For example, the CPU Utilization for the EC2 instances is represented by the following namespace: EC2:CPUUtilization. Dimensions are key:value pairs assigned to metrics to allow for a more granular analysis of those metrics within a […]

Cram Quiz Answer these questions. The answers follow the last question. If you cannot answer these questions correctly, consider reading this section again until you can. 1. You have been put in charge of selecting a monitoring system for your application. You are required to assess several monitoring platforms from a functional point of view. Which […]

Metering Metering is a process of extracting information from a platform and storing it for processing. In the scope of this chapter, the information would be operational metrics of the system or platform where the application resides—for example, capturing how many units of CPU, network, and disk capacity are used. On top of the system […]

This chapter covers the following official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (SOA-C02) exam domains: Domain 1: Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation Domain 4: Security and Compliance (For more information on the official AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate [SOA-C02] exam topics, see the Introduction.) Having a good understanding of what your system is doing in […]

Application Services Several offerings fit into the application services. They enable you to perform work and provide extensions to your applications that can make them more unified and scalable and can allow you to offload more expensive components running in the cloud. Examples include Amazon API Gateway: A fully managed API management and deployment service. […]

End-User Applications Services Within the scope of foundation services, AWS also bundles end-user applications; they include the ability to provide users with everything required to perform their work including but not limited to  Amazon WorkMail: An enterprise email and calendar service that seamlessly integrates with almost any email client.  Amazon WorkDocs: A document editor and […]

Network Services The network services allow the application’s components to interact with each other and also connect the application to the Internet and private networks. Examples of network services include  Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): This service allows you to connect applications with private network ranges, connect those private ranges with the Internet, and assign […]

Cram Quiz Answer these questions. The answers follow the last question. If you cannot answer these questions correctly, consider reading this section again until you can. 1. Which of the following benefits of the AWS cloud allows AWS to provide a relatively low cost per unit of compute, storage, and networking? A. Massive economies of scale […]