Introduction

Get an overview of the management and governance section and its learning objectives.

While it’s essential to be quick and efficient when operating our cloud infrastructure, it’s equally important to govern it according to our organization’s guidelines and compliance standards. The importance of managing and governing AWS accounts lies in maintaining operational efficiency, ensuring security and compliance, and optimizing costs.

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AWS offers a suite of services under the “Management and Governance” designed to help organizations effectively oversee their AWS environments. These services include capabilities for monitoring and managing resource utilization, operational health, and compliance; automating and orchestrating workflows; ensuring security and compliance of resources; and optimizing costs.

AWS CloudFormation is one service that AWS provides for the Management and Governance of our AWS account. In this category, we’ll cover some more services.

Overview of the Management and Governance services

Here’s the roadmap of what learning objectives we’ll be covering in this category:

  • Learn about the AWS Control Tower service and how it works.

  • Learn about the AWS License Manager service and how it works.

  • Learn about the AWS Systems Manager service and how it works.

  • Learn about the AWS Health Dashboard service and how it works.

  • Learn about the AWS Compute Optimizer service and how it works.

  • Learn about the Amazon Managed Grafana service and how it works.

  • Learn about the Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus service and how it works.

  • Learn about the AWS Proton service and how it works.

  • Learn about the AWS Trusted Advisor service and how it works.

  • Learn about the AWS Well-Architected Tool service and how it works.

Read on to learn more about some of the Management and Governance AWS services we will cover in this category.

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