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Saumya Mula

Author: Saumya Mula

Saumya Mula is a Sr. Database Consultant with the Professional Services team at AWS. She works as a lead database migration specialist to provide Amazon customers with technical guidance to migrate their on-premises databases to AWS.

Automate creation of Amazon CloudWatch alarms and dashboards with AWS Systems Manager and Ansible

Automate creation of Amazon CloudWatch alarms and dashboards with AWS Systems Manager and Ansible

Monitoring Amazon EC2 instances is critical to proactively identify any underlying issues or to troubleshoot the performance of the instances. Amazon CloudWatch provides a reliable, scalable, and flexible monitoring solution. Customers running EC2 instances in a self-managed environment typically use Amazon CloudWatch metrics to monitor the performance of their instances and set up alarms for […]

How to set up Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor IO metrics of AWS EBS volumes performance using metric math

How to set up Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor IO metrics of Amazon EBS volumes performance using metric math

To prevent application or database performance hiccups from latency of a disk, it is very critical to monitor disk I/O and usage for performance issues. Disk I/O is the amount of read or write or input/output operations that occur during a period, in other words it measures the data transfer speed between a disk and […]