Generating cloudwatch alarms using 'metric math' via CloudFormation and Terraform.

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Amazon CloudWatch

There are several well-known 3rd party tools, such as Splunk or DataDog, but people often forget there is a handy set of tools provided by AWS under the CloudWatch banner. CloudWatch provides a range of services, such as exposing metrics, linking them to alarms, and X-ray services, to allow us to understand the performance of services in more depth.

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AWS CloudFormation

Of course, best practices today dictate that we should be deploying our infrastructure as code, using tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.

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