An organization wants to monitor the health of their containerized microservices running on Amazon ECS (Fargate). They want to receive an alert if the 'CPU Utilization' of any service exceeds 80% for more than 3 consecutive minutes. Which CloudWatch feature should they use?

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Correct Answer: CloudWatch Metric Alarm (Service-level metric)

Metric alarms are the standard way to monitor performance metrics for ECS services and trigger notifications or scaling actions....

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An organization wants to monitor the health of their containerized microservices running on Amazon ECS (Fargate). They want to receive an alert if the 'CPU Utilization' of any service exceeds 80% for more than 3 consecutive minutes. Which CloudWatch feature should they use?

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Correct Answer

CloudWatch Metric Alarm (Service-level metric)

Why This Answer Is Correct

Metric alarms are the standard way to monitor performance metrics for ECS services and trigger notifications or scaling actions.

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