AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Practice Test

Why is CloudWatch Events crucial for monitoring AWS Config rules?

1. It collects metrics and logs

2. It provides a real-time event-driven monitoring framework

3. It aggregates logs from multiple services

4. It generates billing reports automatically

The correct answer is: It provides a real-time event-driven monitoring framework

CloudWatch Events is essential for monitoring AWS Config rules because it provides a real-time event-driven monitoring framework. AWS Config is designed to assess, audit, and evaluate the configurations of AWS resources. When changes occur in the configuration of those resources, AWS Config can trigger CloudWatch Events. This enables the immediate capturing of configuration changes as events, which can then be processed by various AWS services or custom actions. This capability allows organizations to implement automated responses to changes in compliance status, such as notifying administrators of rule violations or automatically remediating issues, thus ensuring a responsive and proactive cloud infrastructure management. The event-driven architecture facilitates real-time processing and analysis, leading to more efficient compliance management and monitoring. In contrast, while metrics and logs are indeed important for monitoring, they do not capture and respond to configuration changes in the same dynamic manner. Aggregating logs or generating billing reports, while relevant to overall cloud management, are not directly tied to the specific functionality provided by CloudWatch Events related to AWS Config rule monitoring.