Knowing how to correctly use the many AWS cloud services to monitor applications and services for deployment is an essential certified AWS developer skill. In this course, you'll start by exploring the characteristics and purposes of the various troubleshooting and monitoring resources on the AWS cloud before learning how to work with them.

Next, you'll learn to use the feature of AWS CloudWatch, such as metrics, alarms, events, and logs, to monitor resources and visualize collected metric data. You'll then work with AWS X-Ray to monitor, troubleshoot, and improve applications and use AWS CloudFormation to create an Elastic Beanstalk application to generate data for X-Ray. Finally, you'll learn how to create a Trail in AWS CloudTrail to monitor and record API calls and user activity.