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You have set up a huge amount of network infrastructure in AWS and you now need to think about monitoring all of this. You decide CloudWatch will best fit your needs but you are unsure of the pricing structure and the limitations of CloudWatch.
Which of the following statements is TRUE in relation to the limitations of CloudWatch?

A. You get 10 CloudWatch metrics, 10 alarms, 1,000,000 API requests, and 1,000 Amazon SNS email notifications per customer per month for free.
B. You get 100 CloudWatch metrics, 100 alarms, 10,000,000 API requests, and 10,000 Amazon SNS email notifications per customer per month for free.
C. You get 10 CloudWatch metrics, 10 alarms, 1,000 API requests, and 100 Amazon SNS email notifications per customer per month for free.
D. You get 100 CloudWatch metrics, 100 alarms, 1,000,000 API requests, and 1,000 Amazon SNS email notifications per customer per month for free.

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Suggested Answer: A 🗳️
Amazon CloudWatch monitors your Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources and the applications you run on AWS in real-time. You can use CloudWatch to collect and track metrics, which are the variables you want to measure for your resources and applications.
CloudWatch has the following limits:
You get 10 CloudWatch metrics, 10 alarms, 1,000,000 API requests, and 1,000 Amazon SNS email notifications per customer per month for free.
You can assign up to 10 dimensions per metric.
You can create up to 5000 alarms per AWS account. Metric data is kept for 2 weeks.
The size of a PutMetricData request is limited to 8KB for HTTP GET requests and 40KB for HTTP POST requests.
You can include a maximum of 20 MetricDatum items in one PutMetricData request. A MetricDatum can contain a single value or a StatisticSet representing many values.
Reference:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/DeveloperGuide/cloudwatch_limits.html

by XAvenger at May 23, 2021, 9:11 p.m.

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GreenTick

Highly Voted 3 years, 2 months ago

stupid question, why should Solution Architect remember numbers and limits, while things could change in the future.

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cldy

Most Recent 3 years, 5 months ago

A. You get 10 CloudWatch metrics, 10 alarms, 1,000,000 API requests, and 1,000 Amazon SNS email notifications per customer per month for free.

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kirrim

3 years, 6 months ago

A: https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/ Free Tier: 10 Detailed Monitoring Metrics (at 1-minute frequency) 10 Alarm metrics 1 million API requests https://aws.amazon.com/sns/pricing/ Free Tier: Email 1,000 notifications

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XAvenger

3 years, 7 months ago

A. https://aws.amazon.com/cloudwatch/pricing/ 10 Custom Metrics and 10 Alarms 1,000,000 API Requests

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