In this section, you'll explore AWS monitoring and observability services for gaining visibility into resources, applications, and account activity. You'll begin by understanding Amazon CloudWatch and gain practical experience monitoring AWS environments. As you progress, you'll explore CloudWatch Logs agents, including the Unified Agent, to collect and monitor logs and system metrics from your workloads. The section further introduces AWS CloudTrail and AWS Config, helping you understand how to track API activity, monitor configuration changes, and assess resource configurations. Through hands-on activities, you'll gain practical experience working with CloudTrail. By the end of this section, you'll have a solid understanding of AWS monitoring, logging, auditing, and configuration management, enabling you to maintain visibility and operational control across AWS environments.

In this section, you'll explore AWS configuration management and infrastructure automation. You'll begin by understanding AWS Config and how it helps monitor resource configurations and compliance status, followed by a hands-on activity using AWS Config and Amazon SNS. As you progress, you'll learn how to evaluate compliance and identify configuration changes across AWS resources. You'll gain practical experience monitoring compliance status using AWS Config. The section further introduces AWS CloudFormation, helping you understand how to define and provision AWS infrastructure as code. You'll explore creating, updating, and cleaning up CloudFormation stacks through guided activities. By the end of this section, you'll have a solid understanding of configuration compliance and infrastructure automation, enabling you to monitor AWS resources and manage infrastructure efficiently.