Networking & Content Delivery

Tag: CloudWatch

Monitor hybrid connectivity with Amazon CloudWatch Network Synthetic Monitor

Please note: due to an issue under investigation as of March 1, 2025, when the destination of a probe is reached through a Transit Gateway, the Network Health indicator may not reflect correctly the health of the underlying network path. We will remove this warning when this issue has been resolved. Today we announce the […]

Monitoring EC2 Connection Tracking utilization using a new network performance metric

In 2020, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) announced new network performance metrics for EC2 instances made available using ENA driver and Amazon CloudWatch agent. We covered the launch in this post. These network performance metrics give customers visibility into the number of packets queued or dropped when an instance’s networking allowances, such as Network […]

Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor

AWS has just announced the release of a new internet monitoring service, Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. Performance and availability over the internet are key insights that can help you deliver a bar-raising user experience for your AWS applications. User experience can be greatly impacted by internet events outside your control that can go unnoticed. Creating […]

Performing Route 53 health checks on private resources in a VPC with AWS Lambda and Amazon CloudWatch

If you have ever used Amazon Route 53 health checks to monitor resources, you know that monitored resources must have public IP addresses. This is because Route 53 health checkers are public and they can only monitor hosts with IP addresses that are publicly routable on the internet. You may want to monitor your resources […]