This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.

In this episode you will learn:

- The four core functions of CloudWatch: Metrics, Alarms, Logs, and Dashboards (M.A.L.D.).

- The critical difference between Basic Monitoring (5-minute intervals, free) and Detailed Monitoring (1-minute intervals, paid) for EC2 instances.

- A key exam trap: CloudWatch monitors resource performance, while CloudTrail audits API activity and user actions.

- That CloudWatch does not monitor EC2 memory usage by default; this requires installing the CloudWatch Agent to send custom metrics.

- How CloudWatch Events (now Amazon EventBridge) enables automation by triggering actions in response to changes in your AWS environment.

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