AWS Management, Monitoring & Cost
AWS Systems Manager
Operate servers at scale: patching, remote commands, inventory and parameter store.
What it is used for
- Patch management
- Remote server access without SSH
- Configuration parameters
Equivalent on Google Cloud
The closest Google Cloud service is VM Manager: patching, OS inventory and configuration management for Compute Engine VMs.
How DomainHostly helps with AWS Systems Manager
- Plan: choose the right setup, size and region for your workload and budget.
- Set up securely: configure AWS Systems Manager with least-privilege access, encryption and backups where they apply.
- Migrate: move from shared hosting, your own servers or the other cloud with minimal downtime.
- Run and optimise: monitoring, updates and regular cost reviews so you only pay for what you use.
Management, Monitoring & Cost: Monitoring, logging, infrastructure as code, governance and cost management.
What to consider: Management, Monitoring & Cost
- Define infrastructure as code so environments can be rebuilt and reviewed.
- Set budgets and alerts in the first week; surprise bills are the most common cloud complaint.
- Monitor what customers feel (uptime, errors, latency), not only server metrics.
Related services: Management, Monitoring & Cost
- Amazon CloudWatch (AWS)
- AWS CloudTrail (AWS)
- AWS CloudFormation (AWS)
- AWS CDK (AWS)
- AWS Config (AWS)
- AWS Control Tower (AWS)
- Cloud Monitoring (Google Cloud)
- Cloud Logging (Google Cloud)
- Cloud Audit Logs (Google Cloud)
- Managed Service for Prometheus (Google Cloud)