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Assorted Dashboard Views for S3 Metrics using Amazon CloudWatch

“ I have checked the documents of AWS for assorted dashboard views for s3 metrics using amazon cloudwatch. Amazon CloudWatch service has a dashboard feature for custom and automatic dashboards which are able to create different widget type services dashboard views. In terms of cost, the solution is cheaper and secure.”

Amazon CloudWatch dashboards are customizable home pages in the cloudwatch console that you can use to monitor your resources in a single view, even those resources that are spread across different regions. You can use cloudwatch dashboards to create customized views of the metrics and alarms for your AWS resources.

In this post, you will experience the assorted dashboard views for s3 metrics using amazon cloudwatch. Here I have created a s3 bucket and amazon cloudwatch dashboard.

Architecture Overview

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The architecture diagram shows the overall deployment architecture with data flow, s3 bucket and amazon cloudwatch.

Solution overview

The blog post consists of the following phases:

  1. Create a Amazon CloudWatch Custom Dashboard with S3 Bucket
  2. Share the Dashboard Privately, Publicly or Using SSO

Phase 1: Create a Amazon CloudWatch Custom Dashboard with S3 Bucket

  1. Open the amazon cloudwatch console, create a custom dashboard with selecting data sources types with widget configuration as metrics S3 to get s3 trace of bucket size and bucket objects. There are other widget types by which we can showcase the same s3 metrics. Once the dashboard is created save the dashboard.

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Phase 2: Share the Dashboard Privately, Publicly or Using SSO

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Clean-up

Amazon cloudwatch dashboards, s3 bucket.

Pricing

I review the pricing and estimated cost of this example.

Cost of Simple Storage Service = $0.04

Cost of Amazon CloudWatch ($3.00 per custom dashboard per month) = $0.0

Total Cost = $0.04

Summary

In this post, I showed “assorted dashboard views for s3 metrics using amazon cloudwatch”.

For more details on Amazon CloudWatch, Checkout Get started Amazon CloudWatch, open the Amazon CloudWatch console. To learn more, read the Amazon CloudWatch documentation.

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