Your company has a set of applications hosted on AWS. Currently, the IT Admin is manually checking the database storage to see if it is getting full. Which of the following can be used to automate these checks? (Select 2)

Answer options:

A.CloudTrail
B.Cloudwatch
C.VPC Flow Logs
D.AWS Trusted Advisor

Answer – B and D
The AWS Documentation mentions the following.
CloudWatch – You can watch a single Amazon RDS metric over a specific time period and perform one or more actions based on the value of the metric relative to a threshold you set.
Option A is incorrect since this is only used for API monitoring.
Option C is incorrect since this is used for monitoring network traffic to your EC2 Instances.
Option D is correct since AWS Trusted Advisor is an online tool that provides you real-time service limit checks.
https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/technology/trusted-advisor/best-practice-checklist/
For more information on monitoring for databases, please refer to the below URL-
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/MonitoringOverview.html