Find Underutilized Resources in AWS
Question
Your company has setup EC2 Instances in a VPC for their application.
They now have a concern that not all of the EC2 instances are being utilized.
Which of the below mentioned services can help you find underutilized resources in AWS? Choose 2 answers from the options given below.
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A. B. C. D.Correct Answers: A and C.
The AWS Documentation mentions the following.
"An online resource to help you reduce cost, increase performance,and improve security by optimizing your AWS environment,Trust Advisor provides real time guidance to help you provison your resources following AWS best practices"
Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring and management service built for developers, system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE), and IT managers.
CloudWatch provides you with data and actionable insights to monitor your applications, understand and respond to system-wide performance changes, optimize resource utilization, and get a unified view of operational health.
Option B is incorrect since this is a notification service.
Option D is incorrect since this is an API monitoring service.
For more information on AWS Trusted Advisor and Cloudwatch, please visit the below URL.
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/trustedadvisor/ https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/
The two services that can help you find underutilized resources in AWS are AWS CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor.
AWS CloudWatch: AWS CloudWatch is a monitoring service that provides metrics, logs, and alarms for your AWS resources. It collects and tracks metrics such as CPU utilization, network traffic, and disk usage for EC2 instances. By analyzing these metrics, you can identify underutilized instances and adjust their resources or terminate them. You can also use CloudWatch to create custom metrics and alarms to monitor specific performance metrics for your instances.
AWS Trusted Advisor: AWS Trusted Advisor is a service that provides real-time guidance to help you optimize your AWS infrastructure, improve security and performance, and reduce costs. It analyzes your AWS usage and provides recommendations on best practices, cost optimization, and security based on your account activity. Trusted Advisor also includes a feature that can help you identify underutilized resources. The service provides a detailed report that shows which resources are being underutilized, such as idle EC2 instances, and suggests actions to take to improve utilization.
SNS: Amazon SNS (Simple Notification Service) is a messaging service that enables you to send messages or notifications from one service to another or to a set of subscribers. It is not directly related to identifying underutilized resources in AWS.
CloudTrail: AWS CloudTrail is a service that enables you to log, continuously monitor, and retain account activity related to actions across your AWS infrastructure. While it can help you understand what activities are being performed in your environment, it does not directly provide information about underutilized resources.
Therefore, the correct answers to this question are A. AWS CloudWatch and C. AWS Trusted Advisor.