For CA Nimsoft Monitor
Amazon Web Services (AWS) provide a decentralized IT infrastructure for multiple organizations. The various capabilities of AWS include remote storage and content delivery, scalable computing, and database access.
The AWS Monitoring (aws) probe uses CloudWatch to monitor:
- AWS Status – The availability of services for a specific geographic location. Alarms are generated if a service is unavailable.
- Amazon S3 – This service provides storage through web services interfaces. The probe generates QoS data based on the time consumed in storing and retrieving files.
- Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) - This service allows users to rent virtual computers on which to run their own computer applications. The probe generates QoS data based on the performance of various AWS computer instances.
For more information about the aws probe, click here.