Glossary term
What is CloudWatch?
In Apex Flow Academy, "CloudWatch" means: The AWS service that collects numbers, logs and alarms about how your systems are running. It is taught in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup. Related terms include Auto Scaling, CloudTrail, Load balancer and Well-Architected Framework. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is CloudWatch?
The AWS service that collects numbers, logs and alarms about how your systems are running.
Where is CloudWatch taught?
CloudWatch is defined in AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup.
AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup
Which lessons cover CloudWatch?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup, lesson 6.1: Watching and recording: CloudWatch, CloudTrail and AWS Config
Which terms are related to CloudWatch?
Next to CloudWatch in the course glossaries: Auto Scaling, CloudTrail, Load balancer, Well-Architected Framework, Content delivery network (CDN), Data transfer and DNS.
Auto ScalingCloudTrailLoad balancerWell-Architected FrameworkContent delivery network (CDN)Data transferDNS
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn CloudWatch?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- AWS Cloud Basics: Understand the Cloud and Build a Small Live Setup: No cloud, coding or IT experience is needed.