CloudWatch vs. CloudTrail vs. Config

In this lesson, we’ll compare the CloudWatch, CloudTrail, and Config services. We’ll explore in which scenarios we should use what service.

We’ll review how each of them contributes to the auditing and compliance management of AWS resources.

Comparing CloudWatch, CloudTrail & Config

Here’s a general breakdown of what each of these services does:

• AWS CloudWatch:

  • CloudWatch primarily monitors the performance and status of any AWS services and resources.

  • CloudWatch also provides different dashboards for performance monitoring for different AWS resources on the AWS Management Console.

  • CloudWatch monitors performance by collecting and tracking resource metrics of the resources.

  • We can use alarms with CloudWatch to detect certain events and trigger the appropriate actions and notifications in response. ...