CloudWatch

CloudWatch (Monitoring & Metrics)

A service which allows monitoring and metrics of performance of other AWS services (e.g. EC2). Set thresholds to trigger alarms.

• e.g. EC2: CPU utilisation > 80%

• e.g. S3: number of objects in a bucket > 100

• e.g. Billing: current monthly billing > 500$

Pricing

• per dashboard

• Detailed monitoring for EC2 instances

• CloudWatch custom metrics

• CloudWatch API request

• CloudWatch Logs

• CloudWatch Events/Custom Events