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In this lab, you configure an Amazon Linux 2 instance to send log files to Amazon CloudWatch. You then create Amazon CloudWatch alarms and notifications to alert you to a specified number of login failures on your EC2 instances. Finally, you create a CloudWatch alarm and notification to monitor outgoing traffic through a NAT gateway.
Level
Intermediate
Duration
1 Hours 0 MinutesCourse Objectives
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Configure an Amazon Linux 2 instance to send log files to Amazon CloudWatch
- Create Amazon CloudWatch alarms and notifications to monitor for failed login attempts
- Create Amazon CloudWatch alarms to monitor network traffic through a NAT gateway
Intended Audience
This course is intended for:
- Security Engineers
Prerequisites
We recommend that attendees of this course have the following prerequisites:
- Familiar with basic navigation of the AWS Management Console
- Comfortable running commands in a Linux command line interface (CLI)
Course Outline
- Task 1: Send local logs from an EC2 instance to Cloudwatch
- Task 2: Create a CloudWatch alarm and notification
- Task 3: Monitor a NAT gateway
