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Monitoring, security and DNS
Watch, secure and route your AWS workloads.
📖 Key ideas
- CloudWatch collects metrics, logs and alarms.
- CloudTrail records API activity for auditing.
- Route 53 provides DNS and health checks.
- CloudFront is a CDN for fast global delivery.
- Security services: GuardDuty, WAF, KMS, Secrets Manager.
💡 Real-life example: CloudWatch is the CCTV; CloudTrail is the visitor register; Route 53 is the address book.
CloudWatchMonitoring and logs
CloudTrailAudit log of API calls
Route 53DNS service
CloudFrontContent delivery network