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Monitoring lab

Monitoring lab - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

From the course: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA-C03) Cert Prep (February 2025)

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Monitoring lab

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The final thing we need to understand as an architect is the options we have for watching our databases, monitoring them, making sure they're performing as they should. Making sure we're not over-utilizing a single instance. Deciding if we need read replicas because performance is beginning to suffer on our main database. All of these things can be done by monitoring the databases that we have in place. Thankfully, AWS gives us basic monitoring just included for any RDS deployment that we have. And then we also have more advanced performance insights that we can gain by using a paid service that gives us that enhanced performance. We're going to start by looking at the basic monitoring options. So we click on any database. You may have noticed in previous episodes when we came in here, there is actually monitoring information available to us immediately. So we can see CPU utilization, the number of database connections, the…

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