Appendix: Management, Monitoring, and Governance Services - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner Study Guide

AWS Auto Scaling

• Monitors your applications and automatically adjusts capacity to maintain steady, predictable performance at the lowest possible cost
• Build scaling plans for resources including Amazon EC2 instances and Spot Fleets, Amazon ECS tasks, Amazon DynamoDB tables and indexes, and Amazon Aurora Replicas
• Makes recommendations that allow you to optimize performance, costs, or balance between them
• No additional fee, only pay for resources used

AWS Budgets

• Set custom budgets to track your cost and usage
• Be alerted by email or SNS notification when actual/forecasted cost/usage exceed budget threshold, or when actual RI and Savings Plans' utilization or coverage drops below desired threshold
• Configure specific actions to respond to cost and usage status
• First two action-enabled budgets are free, afterward $0.10/day per budget

AWS CloudFormation

• Infrastructure as code service
• Model, provision, and manage AWS and third-party resources
• Authoring in JSON and YAML as well as CDK

AWS CloudTrail

• Monitors and records account activity
• Audit activity, identify security incidents, troubleshoot operational issues
• Capture and store activity in CloudTrail Lake or using CloudTrail Trails to store in S3

Amazon CloudWatch

• Monitoring and observability service
• Monitor applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, and optimize resource utilization
• Detect anomalous behavior in your environments, set alarms, visualize logs and metrics side by side, take automated actions, troubleshoot issues, and discover insights

AWS Config

• Assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of your AWS resources
• Continuously monitors and records your AWS resource configurations and allows you to automate the evaluation of recorded configurations against desired configurations

AWS Cost and Usage Report

• Most comprehensive set of cost and usage data
• Publish AWS billing reports to S3 bucket
• Receive reports that break down your costs by the hour, day, or month, by product or product resource, or by tags

Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events)

• Serverless event bus

AWS License Manager

• Create customized licensing rules that mirror the terms of licensing agreements
• Use these rules to help prevent licensing violations
• Prevent a licensing breach by stopping the instance from launching or by notifying administrators about the infringement

AWS Managed Services

• Will operate your AWS infrastructure at any level for you

AWS Organizations

• Centrally manage and govern AWS environment as you grow and scale your AWS resources
• Programmatically create new AWS accounts and allocate resources, - Group accounts to organize your workflows
• Apply policies to accounts or groups for governance
• Simplify billing by using a single payment method for all of your accounts

AWS Secrets Manager

• Rotate, manage, and retrieve database credentials, API keys, and other secrets throughout their lifecycle
• Users and applications retrieve secrets with a call to Secrets Manager APIs

AWS Systems Manager

• Secure end-to-end management solution for hybrid cloud environments
• Operations management, application management, change management, and node management

AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store

• Secure, hierarchical storage for configuration data management and secrets management
• Store data such as passwords, database strings, Amazon Machine Image (AMI) IDs, and license codes as parameter values in plain text or encrypted

AWS Trusted Advisor

• Provides recommendations that help you follow AWS best practices
• AWS Basic Support and AWS Developer Support customers can access core security checks and all checks for service quotas
• AWS Business Support and AWS Enterprise Support customers can access all checks, including cost optimization, security, fault tolerance, performance, and service quotas