Tag: cloudwatch

  • Monitoring your S3 buckets for #omgcat usage

    If you’re serving up a static website from S3, especially if you have larger assets stored there, you may want to put monitoring on the requests or bytes downloaded from S3, just to make sure someone’s not running up terabytes of transfers or millions of requests. Enabling Metrics on S3 You will have to enable…

  • Monitoring your CloudFront #omgcat usage

    Ok, so you’ve created a lovely static site and/or set up a CloudFront distribution for https for it. But CloudFront bills by the GB. What if somebody decides your assets are perfect to hotlink to or just straight up makes an insane boatload of requests? How do you protect yourself from getting a frightening bill…