re:Invent: STG317 - Amazon EBS volumes and performance monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
Training content
This learning path has been curated to allow you to gain the knowledge and understanding required to get the most from the following re:Invent session, enabling you to understand the insights and discussions during the talk at a greater level, and prepare you to ask some great questions for the speaker(s)!
STG317: Amazon EBS volumes and performance monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch: In this chalk talk, learn how Amazon EBS volumes and Amazon EC2 instances can help you achieve high performance, scalability, and availability for your business-critical workloads. See configurations that can help you achieve high availability, performance (IOPS), and bandwidth. Also learn how to improve the operational performance and resource optimization of Amazon EBS with Amazon CloudWatch, a monitoring and observability service built to provide you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health. This chalk talk focuses on using CloudWatch to improve your Amazon EBS environment performance and efficiency.
As you progress through this learning path you will learn the basics of Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon EBS before the re:Invent session. After which, you will be introduced to more advanced features of Amazon CloudWatch for monitoring the performance of your resources.
Learning Objectives:
Amazon EBS:
- Understand what EBS is and its use cases
- Learn about the two different EBS volumes types available
- Understand how EBS can enhance the security of your data
- Learn how to create EBS volumes
- Get a solid understanding of EBS Multi-Attach
- Learn how to allow multiple instances access to the same volume
- Understand the features and restrictions of the Multi-Attach service
Amazon CloudWatch:
- Get a high-level understanding of Amazon CloudWatch
- Learn about the features and use cases of the service
- Create your own CloudWatch dashboard to monitor the items that are important to you
- Understand how CloudWatch dashboards can be shared across accounts
- Understand the cost structure of CloudWatch dashboards and the limitations of the service
- Review how monitored metrics go into an ALARM state
- Learn about the challenges of creating CloudWatch Alarms and the benefits of using machine learning in alarm management
- Know how to create a CloudWatch Alarm using Anomaly Detection
- Learn what types of metrics are suitable for use with Anomaly Detection
- Create your own CloudWatch log subscription
- Search through your log files to find bits and bobs of details that are of interest to you
Intended Audience
This learning path is designed for those who are looking to attend the 'STG317: Amazon EBS volumes and performance monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch' session
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