Integration & Automation
Author: Glenn Chia
Glenn is a Cloud Architect at AWS. He uses technology to help users deliver on their desired outcomes in their cloud adoption journey. Glenn champions the sharing of reusable code to accelerate the development of cloud architectures.
Keep your AWS resources when you rename an AWS CloudFormation stack
Learn how to change the name of a CloudFormation stack without deleting the resources that it manages. In the walkthrough, which uses a simple architecture with a single resource, a virtual private cloud (VPC), you add a Retain attribute to the resource’s deletion policy so that the resource isn’t lost when that stack is deleted.
Collect custom metrics with Amazon CloudWatch strategic tagging
Learn how to use an Amazon CloudWatch agent to automate the collection of custom metrics for two Amazon EC2 instances. The solution is based on a tagging strategy combined with AWS Systems Manager State Manager to enforce specific CloudWatch agent configurations for EC2 instances that are tagged appropriately.