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You're reading from AWS Certified Developer ??? Associate Guide Your one-stop solution to passing the AWS developer's certification

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787125629

Length 600 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

AWS

Concepts

Cloud Computing

Authors (2):

Tankariya

Parmar

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Table of Contents (29) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Dedication

Preface

1. AWS Certified Developer – Associate Certification FREE CHAPTER

2. Introduction to Cloud Computing and AWS

3. Identity and Access Management

4. Virtual Private Clouds

5. Getting Started with Elastic Compute Cloud

6. Handling Application Traffic with Elastic Load Balancing

7. Monitoring with CloudWatch

8. Simple Storage Service, Glacier, and CloudFront

9. Other AWS Storage Options

10. AWS Relational Database Services

11. AWS DynamoDB - A NoSQL Database Service

12. Amazon Simple Queue Service

13. Simple Notification Service

14. Simple Workflow Service

15. AWS CloudFormation

16. Elastic Beanstalk

17. Overview of AWS Lambda

18. Mock Tests

Index

Queue monitoring and logging

Monitoring SQS queues plays a vital role in an application's lifecycle. There are many functions that are dependent on monitoring, using CloudWatch and relevant triggers. For example, you monitor the size of a queue and define a trigger to automatically scale up EC2 instances with an Auto Scaling group. Similarly, you can scale the number of instances serving the consumer process in case the size of a queue is smaller. Considering the criticality of monitoring with SQS, CloudWatch and SQS are integrated so that you can easily view and analyze various CloudWatch metrics for SQS queues. Queue metrics can be viewed and analyzed using an SQS console, CloudWatch console, programmatically using APIs, or using the CLI.

Amazon automatically gathers CloudWatch metrics for an SQS queue and pushes it to CloudWatch with an interval of five minutes. Amazon gathers metrics for all active SQS queues. A queue is said to be active for up to six hours in case it has messages or...