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| Resources that have been standardized by settings and guidelines applied |
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| records of activity to display what happened |
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| Numerical representations of things like capacity and demand, tracked over time |
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| Gives visibility to cloud resources and applications within the ecosystem and tracks metrics, stores logs from many resources, and can trigger events with alarms. Uses dashboards to monitor metrics and logs. |
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| Leaves behind breadcrumbs of activity or actions taken within your AWS account. Tracks only API activity and centralizes logs in S3 buckets |
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| How long are CloudWatch logs retained by default? |
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| Indefinitely - unless retention setting is changed |
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| Visualize and sort cloud resources on AWS by providing a key value pair in the "somekey : somevalue" structure, that is assigned to specific resources that you want grouped together |
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| organizes resources into groups on AWS, other cloud platforms, or on-premises. It can also perform automated actions and store encrypted secrets |
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| Systems Manager Parameter Store |
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| A service of Systems Manager that can securely store sensitive data like passwords, database strings, or license keys. |
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| Gives you a view of which services are healthy and which are not. You can view the status of services and regions relevant to the workloads running in your AWS account. |
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| Service used for building custom observability applications |
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| Auditing service that provides relevant best practice suggestions on performance, cost optimization, fault tolerance, security, and service limits. There are free tier checks available and more checks are provided with Business or Enterprise account plans. |
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| It is a continuous process that applies checks on security standards |
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| The backbone of auditing on AWS; it allows you to set rules and identify noncompliant services |
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| Service used to centralize the audit data from AWS Config and other security services that can be used to solve the root cause of an issue and then build out a report. Includes pre-built auditing frameworks and the ability to make custom ones as well. |
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| Allows you to assess your workloads, compare them to the 6 pillars of the WAF, and generate an action plan to achieve the best architecture for your organization. |
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| cloud-based contact center |
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| virtual desktop for remote employees |
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| Converts apps to SaaS for employees or end-users |
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