aws-monitoring-strategies.md

All services in AWS have their own documentation portal at https://aws.amazon/com/<servicename>

• Example for CloudWatch:
  • https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
• All other services mentioned have similar URLs

Different ways of managing access control to S3:

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/id_roles.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/using-iam-policies.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/acl-overview.html
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introducing-amazon-s3-block-public-access/

CloudWatch support in AWS

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CW_Support_For_AWS.html

CloudWatch Dashboards

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CloudWatch_Dashboards.html
• https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/amazon-cloudwatch-introduces-automatic-dashboards-to-monitor-all-aws-resources/

CloudWatch Agent install

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/Install-CloudWatch-Agent.html

Legacy Perl CloudWatch agent

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/mon-scripts.html

CloudWatch Agent automated install

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/install-CloudWatch-Agent-on-first-instance.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/install-CloudWatch-Agent-on-first-instance.html#CW-Agent-Instance-Create-Configuration-File-first
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/create-cloudwatch-agent-configuration-file-wizard.html

Route 53 Failover

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/dns-failover-configuring.html

CloudWatch Logs

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/WhatIsCloudWatchLogs.html
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-amazon-cloudwatch-logs-insights-fast-interactive-log-analytics/

CloudWatch Agent summary

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/AgentReference.html

CloudWatch Alarm details

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/AlarmThatSendsEmail.html

CloudWatch metric filters

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/logs/FilterAndPatternSyntax.html

CloudWatch Events summary

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/WhatIsCloudWatchEvents.html

CloudWatch Event types

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/events/EventTypes.html

CloudTrail unsupported services

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/awscloudtrail/latest/userguide/cloudtrail-unsupported-aws-services.html

AWS Config summary

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/resource-config-reference.html

AWS Config Rules

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/config/latest/developerguide/managed-rules-by-aws-config.html

VPC Flow Logs summary

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/flow-logs.html

SSM Features

• https://aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/features/