From the course: AWS for DevOps: Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging
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Use CloudFormation templates - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial
From the course: AWS for DevOps: Monitoring, Metrics, and Logging
Use CloudFormation templates
- Now in order for us to monitor AWS Services, we have to turn them on. As I've been mentioning, this is not a course to cover these services so we're going to use an automated method to turn on services and sets of services, and turn them back off. That is AWS Cloud Formation Stacks. So, what these are, are text templates. They're JSON files. Confirmation templates and AWS provides a number of different samples and we'll be using them throughout this course. You implement them just spin up service instances. So S3 Buckets, RDS Databases. Some of them even include data in the particular template so you can spin up a website, for example with HTML files. The Cloud formation Template, when you implement it, runs as an AWS stack instance and you'll see it in the Cloud Formation section of the console. So we'll be doing this a number of times. If this is new to you, this is a best practice around automation so you can consider it kind of a side benefit of this monitoring course. Starting…
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