Overview
- A centralized store for your application logs
- Most AWS services (e.g. Lambda) can directly send logs
- Needs CloudWatch Agent on EC2, pre-installed with Amazon Linux
- Serverless, priced by usage
CloudWatch Agent
- 🎓 An agent that can be installed on EC2 or on-premise to send logs to CloudWatch Logs
- Open-source, written in Go
CloudWatch Subscriptions
- Relay logs to other targets for real-time processing
- Example targets: Kinesis, Lambda