Integration & Automation
Category: Amazon CloudWatch
Logging Windows Amazon EC2 UserData activity in Amazon CloudWatch
Track what is happening with your Amazon EC2 instance at creation time by leveraging CloudWatch to externalize log data. Use AWS Secrets Manager for credential security with PowerShell scripts, and create a reusable AWS CloudFormation template.
Automating Amazon CloudWatch alarms with an AWS CloudFormation macro
Tired of writing out each Amazon CloudWatch alarm within your AWS CloudFormation template? Learn how to append alarms automatically by using a CloudFormation macro.
Using AWS Systems Manager Automation and AWS CloudFormation together
In this first post of a two-part series, read about the benefits of using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Systems Manager together to streamline deployment, and outputting logs to Amazon CloudWatch for centralized troubleshooting.