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AWS CloudWatch Review
May 05, 2019

AWS CloudWatch Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Amazon CloudWatch

We are using Amazon CloudWatch to monitor our AWS infrastructure. This includes networking flow logs to application logs. Using the Events feature in Amazon CloudWatch allows us to trigger auto-scaling rules for our auto-scaling groups, to spin up and spin down hosts. This provides us a dynamic infrastructure that can adjust for the requests coming in.
  • Events.
  • Flowlogs.
  • Monitoring.
  • The price is too high for stored logs.
  • Not everything is integrated into Cloud Watch.
  • Different interfaces per region.
  • There's a lower cost to trigger ASG using CloudWatch Events.
  • Serverless implementation.
  • It's a managed solution.
Amazon CloudWatch is fully integrated into your existing AWS account, and provides easy hooks into several different services to make a cohesive infrastructure. Unfortunately, using other services will not allow you to get into the weeds to do everything Amazon CloudWatch can do. Because of this, Amazon CloudWatch should be the first solution for any AWS deployment.
Amazon CloudWatch is best for monitoring your AWS infrastructure. When using other services, such as Lambda, you rely on Cloud Watch to provide all of the logging functionality for the functions. Other than writing custom Lambda functions to trigger autoscaling rules, using CloudWatch Events to trigger scaling policies is amazing.