AWS prescriptive-guidance documentation change
Summary
Minor editorial updates including link formatting adjustments, terminology changes ('DB instances' to 'database instances'), grammatical corrections, and sentence structure improvements.
Security assessment
Changes are purely editorial with no introduction of new security concepts or vulnerability fixes. The security-related content about MariaDB Audit Plugin remains functionally unchanged, only rephrased for clarity.
Diff
diff --git a/prescriptive-guidance/latest/amazon-rds-monitoring-alerting/overview.md b/prescriptive-guidance/latest/amazon-rds-monitoring-alerting/overview.md index bccc40fc1..8e5676ced 100644 --- a//prescriptive-guidance/latest/amazon-rds-monitoring-alerting/overview.md +++ b//prescriptive-guidance/latest/amazon-rds-monitoring-alerting/overview.md @@ -13 +13 @@ Monitoring and alerting are included in four pillars of the [AWS Well-Architecte - * The [operational excellence pillar](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/operational-excellence-pillar/design-telemetry.html) prescribes that your workload should be designed to include telemetry and monitoring. AWS services such as [Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS)](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/) provide the information necessary for you to understand your workload's internal state (for example, metrics, logs, events, and traces). When you operate your Amazon RDS databases, you will want to understand the health of your databases instances, detect operational events, and be able to respond to both planned and unplanned events. AWS provides monitoring tools that help you determine when organizational and business outcomes are at risk, or potentially might be at risk, so you can take the appropriate actions at the right time. + * The [operational excellence pillar](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/operational-excellence-pillar/design-telemetry.html) prescribes that your workload should be designed to include telemetry and monitoring. AWS services such as [Amazon Relational Database Service](https://aws.amazon.com/rds/) (Amazon RDS) provide the information necessary for you to understand your workload's internal state (for example, metrics, logs, events, and traces). When you operate your Amazon RDS databases, you will want to understand the health of your databases instances, detect operational events, and be able to respond to both planned and unplanned events. AWS provides monitoring tools that help you determine when organizational and business outcomes are at risk, or potentially might be at risk, so you can take the appropriate actions at the right time. @@ -19 +19 @@ Monitoring and alerting are included in four pillars of the [AWS Well-Architecte - * The [security pillar](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/security-pillar/detection.html) discusses detection and prevention of unexpected or unwanted configuration changes, and unexpected behavior. You can configure your Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB DB instances with the [MariaDB Audit Plugin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Appendix.MySQL.Options.AuditPlugin.html) to record database activity such as user logins and specific operations run against the database. The plugin stores the record of database activity in a log file, which can be integrated and imported into monitoring and alerting tools. The log file is analyzed in real time for unexpected or suspicious behavior in your database. Such unexpected or suspicious behavior can indicate that your Amazon RDS DB instance has been compromised, which signals potential risks to your business. If the monitoring tool detects such an event, it activates an alarm to initiate a response to the security incident, which helps address suspicious and malicious activities. + * The [security pillar](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/security-pillar/detection.html) discusses detection and prevention of unexpected or unwanted configuration changes, and unexpected behavior. You can configure your Amazon RDS for MySQL and MariaDB database instances with the [MariaDB Audit Plugin](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/Appendix.MySQL.Options.AuditPlugin.html) to record database activity such as user logins and specific operations run against the database. The plugin stores the record of database activity in a log file, which can be integrated and imported into monitoring and alerting tools. The log file is analyzed in real time for unexpected or suspicious behavior in your database. Such unexpected or suspicious behavior can indicate that your Amazon RDS DB instance has been compromised, which signals potential risks to your business. If the monitoring tool detects such an event, it activates an alarm to initiate a response to the security incident, which helps address suspicious and malicious activities. @@ -26 +26 @@ Monitoring and alerting are included in four pillars of the [AWS Well-Architecte -Implementing best practices in monitoring and alerting mechanisms helps you ensure a high-performing, resilient, efficient, secure, and cost-optimized infrastructure for your applications and workloads. You can use observability tools that gather, store, and visualize metrics, events, traces, and logs in real time to observe and analyze the bigger picture of the health and performance of your databases, and thus prevent the degradation or disruption of your associated IT services. If unplanned degradation or service disruption still occurs, monitoring and alerting tools help you with timely detection of the problem, escalation, reaction, and quick investigation and resolution. A comprehensive monitoring and alerting solution for your cloud database workloads helps you achieve the following business outcomes: +Implementing best practices in monitoring and alerting mechanisms help you ensure a high-performing, resilient, efficient, secure, and cost-optimized infrastructure for your applications and workloads. You can use observability tools that gather, store, and visualize metrics, events, traces, and logs in real time to observe and analyze the bigger picture of the health and performance of your databases, and thus prevent the degradation or disruption of your associated IT services. If unplanned degradation or service disruption still occurs, monitoring and alerting tools help you with timely detection of the problem, escalation, reaction, and quick investigation and resolution. A comprehensive monitoring and alerting solution for your cloud database workloads helps you achieve the following business outcomes: @@ -36 +36 @@ Implementing best practices in monitoring and alerting mechanisms helps you ensu - * **Improve developer productivity.** Developers who are productive and efficient, and who don't encounter issues and bottlenecks in their development tasks, can deliver high-quality products in a shorter time. However, software engineering and IT operations often have complex challenges, and this complexity increases with the scale of workloads and their architectures. To analyze performance and consistency across distributed applications, developers need tools that can provide correlated metrics and traces. These help identify defective code artifacts and infrastructure components as quickly as possible, and help determine impacts on end users. The right suite of monitoring and alerting tools can help developers code and test better and faster. + * **Improve developer productivity.** Developers who are productive and efficient, who don't encounter issues and bottlenecks in their development tasks, can deliver high-quality products in a shorter time. However, software engineering and IT operations often have complex challenges, and this complexity increases with the scale of workloads and their architectures. To analyze performance and consistency across distributed applications, developers need tools that can provide correlated metrics and traces. These help identify defective code artifacts and infrastructure components as quickly as possible, and help determine impacts on end users. The right suite of monitoring and alerting tools can help developers code and test better and faster.