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Use X-Ray, new from AWS

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- [Instructor] The next service we're going to look at is strangely under Developer Tools. It's called X-Ray. Now I see this more as a management tool, but Amazon's putting it under Developer Tools. Notice it's on Preview, or Beta, as of this recording. So it depends on when you watch this movie, the features might have changed. So X-Ray makes it easy for developers to analyze the behavior of their distributed application by providing request tracing, exception collection, and profiling capabilities. It allows you to debug. It allows you to trace, and it creates a map of services used by your application, to provide you with a view of connections among clients, end-to-end, and downstream services. So let's take a look. Launch a sample application. Click next. And let's make sure we're launching a now familiar CloudFormation template. And let's make sure I'm doing all these things right. Okay, and then click Launch Sample Application. And we got our template. And X-Ray sample. Let's…

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