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Kate Gawron
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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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Working with CloudWatch

CloudWatch is the central monitoring and alerting repository for all AWS services. As such, it is extremely powerful and features many advanced tools and processes, which we do not need to know for the Database Specialty exam. However, given the usefulness of many of these additional features, there is a recommended book in the Further reading section for anyone wanting to know more beyond the scope of this chapter.

CloudWatch can be used to monitor any of your databases running within AWS, not just RDS. It can also be used to monitor databases running on-premises by installing the CloudWatch agent within your data center.

The main page of CloudWatch is Dashboards. You can create your own dashboards to show the metrics that are the most useful to you across all AWS services. For example, if you had an application running on EC2 with a load balancer and an RDS instance, you could create a dashboard that monitored the CPU and memory of the EC2 instances...

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Kate Gawron

Kate Gawron is a full-time senior database consultant and part-time future racing driver. She was a competitor in Formula Woman, and she aspires to become a professional Gran Turismo (GT) racing driver. Away from the racetrack, Kate has worked with Oracle databases for 18 years and AWS for five years. She holds four AWS certifications, including the AWS Certified Database – Specialty certification as well as two professional Oracle qualifications. Kate currently works as a senior database architect, where she works with customers to migrate and refactor their databases to work optimally within the AWS cloud.
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