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Use CloudFormation for applications - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS for DevOps: Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging
Use CloudFormation for applications
- [Woman] Now, in this section, we're going to look yet again at CloudFormation in the context of it being an advanced tool for application monitoring on the AWS Cloud. In addition, there is a tool from Amazon that is in beta at the time of this release called X-Ray. We'll take a little look at that. And then, we'll get into some of the third party tools that I've used with customers. These are not Amazon tools, but they are designed to work with Amazon application monitoring, and you purchase them. And the tools I've worked with are Loggly and New Relic. There's lots of them out there. These are just ones that I've worked with. So, to get started, let's look at CloudFormation stacks one last time. So, we're in the main console. We're going to go into CloudFormation. And you might remember from an earlier movie that I deployed a Quick Start VPC as a pattern. Now, I deliberately waited til now to come back to it because it's a pretty complicated template, and, as we've been moving from…
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