Amazon CloudWatch Overview

Amazon CloudWatch is a service that provides organizations with the tools they need to monitor cloud applications, react to changes in system performance, maximize cloud resources, and gain insight into operational activity across applications, infrastructure, and services.

CloudWatch provides full system visibility so companies can monitor applications and other resources on Amazon Web Services (AWS), including AWS Cloud, other third-party cloud environments, and on-premise. CloudWatch also offers alarms, logs, and event data to help businesses automate actions and speed up resolution times for optimal resource usage.

Key Amazon CloudWatch Capabilities

• Application Performance Monitoring: Amazon CloudWatch provides organizations with tools to visually monitor and analyze system performance, set alerts or alarms, and identify data correlations to quickly and accurately identify and resolve performance issues.
• Root Cause Analysis: CloudWatch offers root cause analysis tools that enable companies to analyze data, system logs, and user requests. This capability improves debugging tasks and resolution times.
• Proactive Resource Optimization: Amazon CloudWatch helps organizations automate cloud resource management and reduce costs by triggering predefined Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning (ML) models based on specific conditions or specifications.
• Website Impact Testing: CloudWatch provides logs, web requests, and screenshots to help organizations identify when and how long their websites are impacted.