Your organization wants to stream CloudWatch metrics in real-time to a 3rd-party analytics platform with low latency. Which CloudWatch feature provides a managed, continuous stream of metric data to a destination like Kinesis Data Firehose?

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Correct Answer: CloudWatch Metric Streams

Metric Streams allow you to continuously stream CloudWatch metrics to a destination of your choice with high throughput and low latency....

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Your organization wants to stream CloudWatch metrics in real-time to a 3rd-party analytics platform with low latency. Which CloudWatch feature provides a managed, continuous stream of metric data to a destination like Kinesis Data Firehose?

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CloudWatch Metric Streams

Why This Answer Is Correct

Metric Streams allow you to continuously stream CloudWatch metrics to a destination of your choice with high throughput and low latency.

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