AWS SOA-C03 monitoring guide covering CloudWatch, CloudTrail, alarms, EventBridge, and performance decisions.
This chapter is where SOA-C03 teaches the operational habit AWS cares about most: read the right signal first, then take the smallest safe corrective action. Questions here usually mix logs, alarms, dashboards, event routing, runbooks, and performance symptoms into one scenario.
AWS currently weights Monitoring, Logging, Analysis, Remediation, and Performance Optimization at 22% of scored content.
| Lesson | Focus |
|---|---|
| 1.1 CloudWatch, CloudTrail & Alarms | Learn the monitoring and logging signals that tell you what changed, what is unhealthy, and who needs to know. |
| 1.2 EventBridge, Remediation & Runbooks | Learn how signals trigger safe operational action instead of only generating noise. |
| 1.3 Compute, Storage & DB Performance | Learn how to turn performance symptoms into targeted compute, storage, and database fixes. |
| If the question is really about… | Go first to… |
|---|---|
| metrics, alarms, dashboards, CloudTrail, CloudWatch agent, or SNS notifications | 1.1 CloudWatch, CloudTrail & Alarms |
| automated remediation, EventBridge rules, or Systems Manager Automation runbooks | 1.2 EventBridge, Remediation & Runbooks |
| EBS, S3, EFS, FSx, RDS, EC2, or performance-efficiency tuning | 1.3 Compute, Storage & DB Performance |