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 AWS Cloudwatch is one of those products that initially looks very scary to deal with. Whole bunch of data, metrics, dashboards, analysis.Wait...sounds like now we are talking finance and not cloud. But, if you play around with it, fundamentally Cloudwatch works on simply three major principles. 1. Metrics 2. Logs 3. Events Think of it as a security guard, on duty 24/7 watching your house and if any single component stops working or gets damaged, instead of waking you up in the middle of the night, it will sound an alarm and it will take action doing all this while simultaneously writing a detailed report. Well, on a very high level that's the idea. Cloudwatch is extremely customizable and one of its key metric is well, a Metric. And that's what we're going to talk about today. Metrics are like triggers that you define. You can either choose from a predefined list of metrics that AWS has to offer or, you can write you own custom metric using AWS CLI or via an API . A partic

  Yes! Area 53, we're finally going there. Super secret projects facility located in the middle of nowhere Nevada Desert, its an area also known as Groom Lake. It has facilities built inside the mountains to hide the alien technologies. It is so top secret that even the president of united states does not have the level of security clearance to access the site. It's what's called, above top secret and it is classified as a black project. "For eyes only". You cannot go within 10 miles of its perimeter without putting yourself at the risk of getting shot.  A site managed by the private military contractors and it is so elusive that no one has any idea what goes on inside.  The whole facility is so compartmentalized and distributed in nature that even the people who work there are delegated only a small section of the work so one worker doesn't know what the other one is working on, even though they might be working on the same technology. There are NDA's in