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Amazon CloudWatch stands out as a powerful observability and monitoring service designed for DevOps engineers, IT administrators, software developers, and cloud architects. It provides data and actionable insights to monitor applications, understand system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and respond to operational issues in real time. What is Amazon CloudWatch? Amazon CloudWatch is a native AWS monitoring service that collects and visualizes metrics, logs, and events from AWS services and custom applications. It empowers organizations to detect anomalies, set alarms, troubleshoot issues, and gain full-stack observability without relying on third-party tools. Key Features of Amazon CloudWatch Automatic Metric Collection CloudWatch automatically collects performance data from over 70 AWS services, including EC2, RDS, Lambda, ECS, and more. This makes it easy to set up dashboards and track usage, latency, errors, and other custom metrics. CloudWatch Logs CloudWa...

Step-by-Step Guide to Provisioning AWS WAF with AWS CDK   https://schedule.businesscompassllc.com/   Amazon Web Services (AWS) Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a security solution that helps protect web applications from common threats such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other vulnerabilities. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) enables developers to define cloud infrastructure using code, simplifying the provisioning and management of AWS resources. This podcast provides a step-by-step approach to provisioning an AWS WAF using AWS CDK, ensuring robust application security. https://businesscompassllc.com/step-by-step-guide-to-provisioning-aws-waf-with-aws-cdk/ #AWS #AWSWAF #CloudSecurity #InfrastructureAsCode #DevOps #CyberSecurity #AWSCDK

  Introduction  Amazon Web Services (AWS) Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a security solution that helps protect web applications from common threats such as SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other vulnerabilities. The AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) enables developers to define cloud infrastructure using code, simplifying the provisioning and management of AWS resources. This guide provides a step-by-step approach to provisioning an AWS WAF using AWS CDK, ensuring robust application security. Prerequisites   Before proceeding, ensure the following: An AWS account with necessary permissions. AWS CLI and AWS CDK installed. Node.js and TypeScript installed. Basic knowledge of AWS WAF and AWS CDK. Step 1: Set Up a New AWS CDK Project Create a new directory for the project and navigate into it: mkdir aws-waf-cdk && cd aws-waf-cdk Initialize a new CDK project: cdk init app --language=typescript Install necessary dependencies: npm install @aws-cd...