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Automate creating and onboarding applications with AWS CloudFormation tags and myApplications

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This article discusses how to automate creating and onboarding applications with AWS CloudFormation tags and the myApplications dashboard on AWS. It explains how myApplications provides a centralized view to monitor applications' cost, health, security, and performance across multiple AWS consoles.

Specifically, the article covers:

  • Prerequisites for using myApplications
  • Defining and creating applications with CloudFormation tags
  • Using the Cost and usage widget to track application costs
  • Leveraging Amazon CloudWatch monitoring capabilities like alarms, SLIs, and canaries
  • The DevOps widget showing node management, patch compliance, and AWS Config compliance
  • Brief conclusion highlighting the benefits of automating application onboarding
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