Efficiently monitor your On Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) by Grouping on CloudWatch Dimensions
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This post explains how to efficiently monitor your On-Demand Capacity Reservations (ODCR) on AWS by creating CloudWatch alarms grouped by different dimensions, such as instance type, availability zone, instance match criteria, instance platform, tenancy, and across all capacity reservations within a region.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Prerequisites for setting up the environment and necessary permissions
- Step-by-step guide for creating CloudWatch alarms for the InstanceUtilization metric grouped by each dimension using Python scripts
- Validating the alarms in the CloudWatch console
- Cleaning up the resources created to avoid ongoing charges
- Conclusion highlighting the benefits of using these new CloudWatch dimensions for monitoring and optimizing ODCR usage
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