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Posted November 16, 2020 - Updated November 16, 2020

Administration, AWS, Infrastructure Management

Automate (Un)Installation of AWS CloudWatch Agent in Systems Manager


AWS CloudWatch Agent comes installed on Amazon Linux 2 AMI and other AMIs. However, you may run into older AMIs or custom AMIs that don’t include the CloudWatch Agent.  If you need to install, uninstall, or reinstall CloudWatch Agent on a Linux EC2 instance follow these steps. I’m going to assume you have an EC2 […]

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Posted August 24, 2020 - Updated August 24, 2020

Administration, AWS, Infrastructure Management

Automate Setup of EC2 Disk and Memory Metrics using AWS CloudWatch Agent and Systems Manager


Amazon Web Services offers a plethora of services that easily customize an environment while remaining cost-effective for a business. Usually, the tricky part is piecing together the different services to form a fully functioning system. In this blog post, I use IAM, EC2, CloudWatch, and AWS Systems Manager (SSM) to create a scalable system that […]