Tag: cloudwatch

The AWS SDKs and Tools team is excited to announce support for request compression for the PutMetricData operation of Amazon CloudWatch. When publishing metrics to CloudWatch, the AWS SDKs will now automatically compress the metric data to reduce bandwidth utilization and latency. Motivation Compressing request payloads on the client prior to sending them to a […]

Metrics measure the performance of your system. Several AWS services provide free metrics, such as the CPU usage of an Amazon EC2 instance. You can create Amazon CloudWatch alarms based on metrics and send Amazon SNS messages when the alarm state changes. You can use this mechanism to implement elastic scaling if the message is […]