A company needs to monitor the read and write IOPs metrics for their AWS MySQL RDS instance and send
real-time alerts to their operations team. Which AWS services can accomplish this? Choose 2 answers
A.
Amazon Simple Email Service
B.
Amazon CloudWatch
C.
Amazon Simple Queue Service
D.
Amazon Route 53
E.
Amazon Simple Notification Service
B & E
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/CHAP_Monitoring.html
Def not D.
Don’t get confused with SNS and SQS.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/sns/latest/dg/SendMessageToSQS.html
SNS is for notifications real-time (traps or real-time alerts)
SQS is for notifications that sit in a queue that you can monitor (trap viewer)
SNS can send to SQS but doesn’t have to.
B & E. As Cloud watch for monitoring and it can send alert notifications through SNS to a defined email id or group.
BE