Category: Amazon CloudWatch

Learn how to create an AWS CloudFormation template that runs code prior to terminating an EC2 Auto Scaling instance.

Track what is happening with your Amazon EC2 instance at creation time by leveraging CloudWatch to externalize log data. Use AWS Secrets Manager for credential security with PowerShell scripts, and create a reusable AWS CloudFormation template.

Tired of writing out each Amazon CloudWatch alarm within your AWS CloudFormation template? Learn how to append alarms automatically by using a CloudFormation macro.

In this first post of a two-part series, read about the benefits of using AWS CloudFormation and AWS Systems Manager together to streamline deployment, and outputting logs to Amazon CloudWatch for centralized troubleshooting.