This presentation seems pretty outdated with regards to Amazon specifics. The Ideal Advanced Tools section lists many things that are provided by CloudWatch:

This presentation seems pretty outdated with regards to Amazon specifics. The Ideal Advanced Tools section lists many things that are provided by CloudWatch: * Should incorporate auto-scaling configuration services as remediation of performance/load events * Should incorporate standards-based performance monitoring services * Allow for automated provisioning of EC2 instances * Should allow for auto-scaling based on dynamic load evaluation functions and it also doesn't list RDS which should be included since it talks about running DBs on AWS. The more general advice seems like it's still valid, but with the rapid rate of change for cloud services it's important to keep up to date about what features are offered by cloud providers.