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Monitor AWS MySQL RDS Instance IOPS Metrics

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A company needs to monitor the read and write IOPS metrics for its AWS MySQL RDS instance and send real-time alerts to its Operations team.

Which AWS services could help to accomplish this? (SELECT TWO)

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Amazon CloudWatch may be used to monitor IOPS metrics from the RDS instance and Amazon Simple Notification Service to send the notification if an alarm is triggered.

For more information on CloudWatch metrics, please refer to the link below.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/monitoring/CW_Support_For_AWS.html

The two AWS services that could help accomplish this are Amazon CloudWatch and Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS).

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service that provides data and insights into AWS resources and applications. It can be used to monitor metrics such as read and write IOPS for an RDS instance. CloudWatch can also be used to set alarms on these metrics, which can trigger automated actions such as sending a notification via SNS.

Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) is a fully managed messaging service that enables the sending of notifications to a variety of endpoints, such as email, SMS, mobile push notifications, and more. SNS can be used in combination with CloudWatch to send real-time alerts when specific conditions are met, such as when read and write IOPS exceed a certain threshold.

Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is a cloud-based email sending service, which is not directly relevant to this scenario. Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) is a fully managed message queuing service that enables decoupling and scaling of microservices, but it does not directly relate to real-time monitoring and alerting. Amazon Route 53 is a scalable domain name system (DNS) service that routes users to AWS resources, but it does not provide monitoring or alerting capabilities.