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Create a CloudWatch Alarm

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Part of AWS Monitoring, Logging, and Remediation SOA.1 Topic: AWS

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What you'll do

In this challenge, you will configure Amazon CloudWatch to generate an alarm when CPU utilization reaches a specific level.

  1. Create a CloudWatch alarm to monitor CPU utilization on an Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) instance
  2. Connect to the console of the EC2 instance by using EC2 Instance Connect
  3. Install a stress testing tool
  4. Run a stress test to simulate load
  5. Monitor the CloudWatch alarm until it is triggered

Note: Once you begin the lab, you will not be able to pause, save, or exit and then return to your lab. Please ensure that you have set aside enough time to complete the lab before you start.

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