CloudWatch Time-Series Metrics
Best for Enforces access control and policy-based security configurations.
When not When you need physical security or network isolation.
AWS CloudWatch ingests metrics from EC2, RDS, Lambda. Custom metrics from applications. Metrics stored for 15 months. Dashboards visualize KPIs. Alarms trigger actions. Integrated with other AWS services.
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