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Dashboard
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CAREER PROJECT · Intermediate · 1 weekend
AWS Monitoring + Cost Guardrails
Create CloudWatch dashboards, alarms, SNS notifications and budget alerts for an existing workload.
CloudWatchSNSAWS BudgetsAlarmsCost control
DEFINITION OF DONE
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Alarm demo
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Budget alert
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Runbook
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Cost baseline
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RESUME / PORTFOLIO FRAMING
Describe what you actually did.
Implemented AWS operational and cost guardrails with CloudWatch monitoring, SNS alerts and budget thresholds.
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STRETCH GOALS
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Anomaly detection
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Tag-based costs
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Automated remediation
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