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Eimis Pacheco
Eimis Pacheco

Reputation: 103

What is the difference between aws system manager and aws cloudwatch?

I am kind of confused with the difference between aws system manager and aws cloudwatch?

Could someone help me to get clear with the difference?

Thank you very much.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1701

Answers (2)

Anand Mattikopp
Anand Mattikopp

Reputation: 372

In short, AWS System Manger is a centralized tool to automate management of AWS resources.

Whereas AWS Cloudwatch is centralized tool for monitoring AWS resource logs.

These short video resources might help -

AWS System Manager - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK4ZoCs-muo&ab_channel=AmazonWebServices

AWS Cloudwatch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4dhoTQCyRA&ab_channel=AmazonWebServices

Upvotes: 1

Marcin
Marcin

Reputation: 238051

They have different purposes.

  • aws system manager in the core of its functionality allows you to manage a fleet of instances as well as on-premise servers. Using the manger you can updated hundreds of instances with just a single command, execute custom scripts on all of them, monitor their patch compliance (i.e. do all your instances of interest have latest updates) and so on.

  • aws cloudwatch is primary used as a central location for storing variety of logs, from your applications (e.g. lambda execution logs), aws services and so on. It also allows you to monitor performance metrics of your instances (e.g. CPU utilization) as well as other resources. Other functionality is to respond to live events from resources (e.g. execute lambda whenever an instance is terminated)

Upvotes: 2

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