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Monitoring S3

Having visibility of all Amazon S3 resources is important to assess their security posture and take action on potential areas of weakness.

Fetching Metrics

The first step is to fetch the metrics.

Amazon CloudWatch metrics for Amazon S3 can help understand and improve the performance of applications that use Amazon S3. There are several ways that one can use CloudWatch with Amazon S3.

Daily storage metrics for buckets

Monitor bucket storage using CloudWatch, which collects and processes storage data from Amazon S3 into readable, daily metrics. These storage metrics for Amazon S3 are reported once per day and are provided to all customers at no additional cost.

Request metrics

Monitor Amazon S3 requests to quickly identify and act on operational issues. The metrics are available at 1-minute intervals after some latency for processing. These CloudWatch metrics are billed at the same rate as the Amazon CloudWatch custom metrics.

When enabled, request metrics are reported for all object operations. By default, these 1-minute metrics are available at the Amazon S3 bucket level. We can also define a filter for the metrics using a shared prefix, object ...