0: Incident / Event Response Overview

What’s in here?

• Troubleshooting
• Restoring operations
• Automating event mgmt + alerting
• Implement automated healing
• Event-driven automated actions

Which Whitepapes to Study?

• AWS Security Incident Response Guide
• AWS Security best practices

Related Services?

• CloudWatch: Detect issues, automate events
  • Monitoring thresholds trigger events
• OpsWorks (stacks): Auto-heal failed instances
  • (It’s in stack layer settings)
• Auto-scaling: Monitor metrics (scale or heal instances)
• CloudFormation: Store templates in multiple regions for redundancy
• AWS Health Dashboard: Availability and Operations of services