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Kate Gawron
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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Cheat sheet

The cheat sheet summarizes the main key points from this chapter:

  • CloudWatch is the central monitoring tool for all AWS services.
  • RDS, EC2, and other AWS databases all natively send metrics to CloudWatch, and they can also be configured to send their log files to CloudWatch.
  • CloudWatch offers Enhanced Monitoring, which lets you accurately monitor the virtual machine the RDS database is running on.
  • You can use Performance Insights to get a visual representation of the real-time workload running on your database and its performance to help diagnose performance issues and to find queries that could be tuned.
  • CloudWatch allows the creation of dashboards to let you monitor all of your services and key metrics in one place, reducing the need for application teams to have access to the RDS console, which can help improve your database security.
  • You can create custom alarms within CloudWatch that can be configured to send emails or text messages if there...
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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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